Please keep this thread going as I am also curious to know why this has been 'forked'. I am sure that most of this lies within the original OPIC filter but I still can't understand why straight forward lucene queries have not been used within the application.
On 7/6/07, Kai_testing Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been reading up on NUTCH-479 "Support for OR queries" but I must be > missing something obvious because I don't understand what the JIRA is about: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-479 > > Description: > There have been many requests from users to extend Nutch query syntax > > to add support for OR queries, > in addition to the implicit AND and NOT > queries supported now. > > Ok, so I guess what I don't understand is what is the "Nutch query syntax"? > > The main discussion I found on nutch-user is this: > http://osdir.com/ml/search.nutch.devel/2004-02/msg00007.html > I was wondering why the query syntax is so limited. > There are no OR queries, there are no fielded queries, > or fuzzy, or approximate... Why? The underlying index > supports all these operations. > > I notice by looking at the or.patch file > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12360659/or.patch) that one > of the programs under consideration is: > nutch/searcher/Query.java > The code for this is distinct from > lucene/search/Query.java > > It looks like this is an architecture issue that I don't understand. If > nutch is an "extension" of lucene, why does it define a different Query > class? Why don't we just use the Lucene code to query the indexes? Does > this have something to do with the nutch webapp (nutch.war)? What is the > historical genesis of this issue (or is that even relevant)? > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love > (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. > http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 -- "Conscious decisions by conscious minds are what make reality real" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nutch-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general
