Check out the highlighter code in the contribs folder. Should do what u need.
Ben On Saturday, August 7, 2010, <e...@telexis.com> wrote: > Sorry if duplicate post, I wasn't subscribed when I did the 1st one, so not > sure if it was aloud or blocked by spam filters. This is my first "post", so > I hope I'm doing this correctly. I've only used Google Groups or on-line > forums in the past, never email based lists. > > I'm using CLucene to index a custom ISAM legacy database of mine. The > database holds emails and other messages. I've got the indexing working, and > also the searching. However, our current (very slow) search method provides > a "summary" for each search result. Basically fragments of the text around > the words that were found. > > I have to read the records from my database for each result found by CLucene > anyway, because I don't want to store all that data in Lucene, so I was > thinking I would just scan my text manually to provide the same "summary" I'm > currently providing. However, now I realize that isn't as simple as it was > before, because I don't always know what words/phrases (I think Lucene calls > them "terms") were found. For example, if the user does a fuzzy or wildcard > search. Without recreating the CLucene logic, how can I do this? > > I understand that there are some additional libraries (maybe only for the > Java version?) that do "highlighting", which is similar to what I want to do. > I haven't found any source code for them yet, and even if I did, I'm not > sure I could figure out how to extract that and recreate for my purposes > (they may assume the text is stored in Lucene, or that I want the results in > HTML format). My scenario seems to be unique, because I'm not working with a > website, or indexing basic files. > > If I could find the section of code in CLucene where it "finds" results for > my query, then I would know what words it found for each document. I'm not > too worried about showing the "most relavent" fragments at this point, > although that would be a nice feature down the road. > > p.s.-I'm loving CLucene so far, and if I can get past this last hurdle, I > should be set =] > > -Eric Selk > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > CLucene-developers mailing list > CLucene-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clucene-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ CLucene-developers mailing list CLucene-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clucene-developers
