lucene.net

How do I load balance Lucene.Net ?

Is it possible to load balance a Lucene.NET index across multiple processes / servers? Since Lucene.NET is filebased is it possible to just make a simple filecopy (using i.e. robocopy) of the index to the servers serving queries? ...

Paging using Lucene.net

Hi, I'm working on a .Net application which uses Asp.net 3.5 and Lucene.Net I am showing search results given by Lucene.Net in an asp.net datagrid. I need to implement Paging(10 records on each page) for this aspx page. How do I get this done using Lucene.Net? Thanks in advance...! ...

Search results Highlighting using Lucene.net

Hi, I'm working on an asp.net application which uses Lucene.net I need to highlight the search results returned from Lucene. I believe there is a Highlighter class which serves this purpose.I am using Lucene.Net version 2.0.0.4 but am not able to find any Highlighter class in it. Kindly help. Thanks! ...

How to use a Stemmer in Lucene.net?

Hi, Could someone please tell me how to use as Stemmer in Lucene.Net? Thanks! ...

Lucene.Net and Geosearch - is it outthere somewhere?

I've found an interesting article about Lucene and geosearching: http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2008/02/spatial-search-with-lucene.html Is there an equivilant .NET implementation out there that I have been unable to find or do I have to rework the Java-code in his example to fit in the .NET Framework? ...

Lucene.Net features

Hi, Am new to Lucene.Net Which is the best Analyzer to use in Lucene.Net? Also,I want to know how to use Stop words and word stemming features ? Thanks in advance! Edward ...

What are your success or horror stories with Lucene.Net and MS's COM Filter?

I am interested in building a search solution with Lucene.Net for pdf and MS Office documents. My idea is to have a Windows service that runs and indexes files on a scheduled basis. From my cursory reading I have to use a COM filter from Microsoft that perform indexing on the .docs, .ppts, etc. What issues did you encounter and how ...

Looking for an example of using Lucene.net with ASP.NET

How do you implement the search capabilities of Lucene.net in asp.net? If possible, please include links or example code. ...

"FindAll" feature in Lucene.net

Hi, I have two fields on my web page ie: BookAuthor and BookDescription.On submit,the page searches against lucene index using the given search criteria. If the user does not type in anything in the two fields and submits the page, how do make Lucene.Net return all the books from my index irrespective of BookAuthor and BookDescription ...

Maximum boost factor

Hi, What is the maxiimum boost factor value for a word in Lucene.Net? I believe default value is 1.0f Thanks! ...

Grouping Lucene search results

How do i group search results returned by Lucene by fields? Thanks! ...

Searching phrases in Lucene

Could somebody point me to an example how to search for phrases with Lucene.net? Let's say I have in my index a document with field "name", value "Jon Skeet". Now I want to be able to find that document when searching for "jon skeet". ...

Force Lucene.NET 2.3 to immediately commit pending deletions

IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(IndexPath, analyzer, false); writer.DeleteDocuments(new Term("Id", topicId)); writer.Flush(true, true); writer.Close(); This code successfully queues up the document for deletion, but doesn't actually do it. I need it to be done right away as I can't have old documents in the index. What am I doi...

Need Lucene query optimization advice

Hi there, Am working on web based Job search application using Lucene.User on my site can search for jobs which are within a radius of 100 miles from say "Boston,MA" or any other location. Also, I need to show the search results sorted by "relevance"(ie. Score returned by lucene) in descending order. I'm using a 3rd party API to fetc...

NHibernate.Search with Lucene.NET without using DB?

Could I use NHibernate.Search only with lucene’s index without database? Because I would like to store all data only in my lucene’s index, but I really like features in NHibernate.Search. ...

How to Indexing and searching business entities using Lucene.Net?

I would like to know how to use Lucene.NET for indexing and searching my business entities. I see NHibernate.Search has nice features for this issue, but it still needs DB. I don't need DB, I only want to store all data in my Lucene.NET's index. I also see java framework like Compass can do that stuff easily, but it's not .NET library. ...

Lucene.Net and incubation status

Hi, I'm evaluating options to make our search more powerful on our .Net website. I need to look into whether we purchase software/hardware such as the Google Search Appliance (GSA) or develop the solution using a framework such as Lucene.Net We're a startup, and the GSA provides a lot of good functionality out of the box, but we would...

NHibernate.Search, Lucene index files not created

I have come across an issue with NHibernate.Search, where it all of a sudden stopped working, it cannot create files nor read the index-files at all. NHibernate seems to load it correctly: 2009-01-20 17:37:17,751 [1] DEBUG NHibernate.Impl.SessionFactoryImpl - instantiating session factory with properties: {use_reflection_optimize...

What is the best way to parse Microsoft Office and PDF documents?

I'm developing a Desktop Search Engine using VB9 (VS2008) and Lucene.NET. The Indexer in Lucene.NET accepts only raw text data and it is not possible to directly extract raw text from a Microsoft Office (DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX) and PDF documents. What is the best way to extract raw text data from such files? ...

Leading wildcard character throws error in Lucene.NET.

If the search query contains a leading wildcard character (* or ?), the QueryParser's Parse function throws an error. Dim q As String = "*abc" Dim qp As New QueryParser("text", New StandardAnalyzer()) Dim query As Query = qp.Parse(q) Is there any way to solve this problem in Lucene.NET v2.0.0.4? ...