So, how upcoming is this book going to be?
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/15/2004 3:39:39 AM >>>
To add to this.
The upcoming Lucene in Action book has ready to use code that will
handle and index files in most popular file formats.
Otis
--- Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have a look at the Ant <index> task in the Lucene sandbox. You're on
>
> your own, currently, to build this and understand it, but I use it
> frequently. In fact, the sample index from our book is generated
> with
> this:
>
> <index index="${build.dir}/index"
> documenthandler="lia.common.TestDataDocumentHandler">
> <fileset dir="${data.dir}"/>
> <config basedir="${data.dir}"/>
> </index>
>
> You can plug in your own DocumentHandler implementation to index
> different document types however you like. The default one indexes
> .txt and .html files, but a custom implementation can do its own
> thing.
> Again, to write a DocumentHandler that knows about various document
>
> types is not hard you will have to write your own at the moment.
>
> Despite the (minor) amount of work you'll have to do to start using
> <index> - the infrastructure adds a lot of value: an incremental file
>
> system indexer (only new docs get indexed on successive runs).
> Plugging this into cron would be trivial.
>
> Erik
>
> On Mar 13, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Charlie Smith wrote:
>
> > Anyone written a simple UNIX command-line indexing script which
> will
> > read a
> > bunch off different kinds of docs and index them? I'd like to make
> a
> > cron job
> > out of this so as to be able to come back and read it later during
> a
> > search.
> >
> > PERL or JAVA script would be fine.
> >
> >
>
>
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