discourse-legacysite-perl/site/slowtwitch.com/cgi-bin/articles/GT/SQL/Search/LUCENE/Lucene.txt
2024-06-17 21:49:12 +10:00

207 lines
7.8 KiB
Plaintext

NAME
Lucene -- API to the C++ port of the Lucene search engine
SYNOPSIS
Initialize/Empty Lucene index
my $analyzer = new Lucene::Analysis::Standard::StandardAnalyzer();
my $store = Lucene::Store::FSDirectory->getDirectory("/home/lucene", 1);
my $tmp_writer = new Lucene::Index::IndexWriter($store, $analyzer, 1);
$tmp_writer->close;
undef $tmp_writer;
Choose your Analyzer (string tokenizer)
# lowercases text and splits it at non-letter characters
my $analyzer = Lucene::Analysis::SimpleAnalyzer();
# same as before and removes stop words
my $analyzer = Lucene::Analysis::StopAnalyzer();
# splits text at whitespace characters
my $analyzer = Lucene::Analysis::WhitespaceAnalyzer();
# lowercases text, tokenized it based on a grammer that
# leaves named authorities intact (e-mails, company names,
# web hostnames, IP addresses, etc) and removed stop words
my $analyzer = Lucene::Analysis::Standard::StandardAnalyzer();
Choose your Store (storage engine)
# in-memory storage
my $store = new Lucene::Store::RAMDirectory();
# disk-based storage
my $store = Lucene::Store::FSDirectory->getDirectory("/home/lucene", 0);
Open and configure an IndexWriter
my $writer = new Lucene::Index::IndexWriter($store, $analyzer, 0);
# optional settings for power users
$writer->setMergeFactor(100);
$writer->setUseCompoundFile(0);
$writer->setMaxFieldLength(255);
$writer->setMinMergeDocs(10);
$writer->setMaxMergeDocs(100);
Create Documents and add Fields
my $doc = new Lucene::Document;
# field gets analyzed, indexed and stored
$doc->add(Lucene::Document::Field->Text("content", $content));
# field gets indexed and stored
$doc->add(Lucene::Document::Field->Keyword("isbn", $isbn));
# field gets just stored
$doc->add(Lucene::Document::Field->UnIndexed("sales_rank", $sales_rank));
# field gets analyzed and indexed
$doc->add(Lucene::Document::Field->UnStored("categories", $categories));
Add Documents to an IndexWriter
$writer->addDocument($doc);
Optimize your index and close the IndexWriter
$writer->optimize();
$writer->close();
undef $writer;
Delete Documents
my $reader = Lucene::Index::IndexReader->open($store);
my $term = new Lucene::Index::Term("isbn", $isbn);
$reader->deleteDocuments($term);
$reader->close();
undef $reader;
Query index
# initalize searcher and parser
my $analyzer = Lucene::Analysis::SimpleAnalyzer();
my $store = Lucene::Store::FSDirectory->getDirectory("/home/lucene", 0);
my $searcher = new Lucene::Search::IndexSearcher($store);
my $parser = new Lucene::QueryParser("default_field", $analyzer);
# build a query on the default field
my $query = $parser->parse("perl");
# build a query on another field
my $query = $parser->parse("title:cookbook");
# define a sort on one field
my $sortfield = new Lucene::Search::SortField("unixtime");
my $reversed_sortfield = new Lucene::Search::SortField("unixtime", 1);
my $sort = new Lucene::Search::Sort($sortfield);
# define a sort on two fields
my $sort = new Lucene::Search::Sort($sortfield1, $sortfield2);
# use Lucene's INDEXORDER or RELEVANCE sort
my $sort = Lucene::Search::Sort->INDEXORDER;
my $sort = Lucene::Search::Sort->RELEVANCE;
# query index and get results
my $hits = $searcher->search($query);
my $sorted_hits = $searcher->search($query, $sort);
# get number of results
my $num_hits = $hits->length();
# get fields and ranking score for each hit
for (my $i = 0; $i < $num_hits; $i++) {
my $doc = $hits->doc($i);
my $score = $hits->score($i);
my $title = $doc->get("title");
my $isbn = $doc->get("isbn");
}
# free memory and close searcher
undef $hits;
undef $query;
undef $parser;
undef $analyzer;
$searcher->close();
undef $fsdir;
undef $searcher;
}
Close your Store
$store->close;
undef $store;
DESCRIPTION
Like it or not Apache Lucene has become the de-facto standard for
open-source high-performance search. It has a large user-base, is well
documented and has plenty of committers. Unfortunately Apache Lucene is
entirely written in Java and therefore of relatively little use for perl
programmers. Fortunately in the recent years a group of C++ programmers
led by Ben van Klinken decided to port Java Lucene to C++.
The purpose of the module is to export the C++ Lucene API to perl and at
the same time be as close as possible to the original Java API. This has
the combined advantage of providing perl programmers with a
well-documented API and giving them access to a C++ search engine
library that is supposedly faster than the original.
CHARACTER SUPPORT
Currently only ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) characters are supported. Obviously
this included all ASCII characters.
INDEX COMPATIBLITY
For the moment indices produced by this module are not compatible with
those from Apache Lucene. The reason for this is that this module uses
1-byte character encoding as opposed to 2-byte (widechar) encoding with
Apache Lucene.
INSTALLATION
This module requires the clucene library to be installed. The best way
to get it is to go to the following page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clucene/
and download the latest STABLE clucene-core version. Currently it is
clucene-core-0.9.15. Make sure you compile it in ASCII mode and install
it in your standard library path.
On a Linux platform this goes as follows:
wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clucene/clucene-core-0.9.15.tar.gz
cd clucene-core-0.9.15
./autogen.sh
./configure --disable-debug --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --enable-ascii
make
make check
(as root) make install
To install the perl module itself, run the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
(as root) make install
AUTHOR
Thomas Busch <tbusch at cpan dot org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2006 Thomas Busch
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
Plucene - a pure-Perl implementation of Lucene
KinoSearch - a search engine library inspired by Lucene
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
BECAUSE THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE
ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH
YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL
NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
REDISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE AS PERMITTED BY THE ABOVE LICENCE, BE LIABLE
TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE
SOFTWARE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING
RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A
FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF
SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.