I haven't asked in the grails community yet. I definitely will. Nathan Wells
On Nov 18, 2011, at 4:35 AM, Ian Lea <ian....@gmail.com> wrote: > You can certainly create a lucene index once and deploy it multiple > times with your app. It should be portable if you deploy the relevant > lucene jar as well. > > So I think that is a yes to "can". Not sure about the "should" > though. As far as I'm aware lucene won't index HTML directly although > there are HTML parsers you could use to extract the text and pass it > to lucene. But there might be better ways to do it - have you asked > in the Grails community? > > > -- > Ian. > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Nathan Wells <nwwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> All, >> >> I'm using the excellent Grails web framework, and the documentation >> tool it provides. The documenation tool allows you to write in wiki >> and it will output fully formatted and linked documentation. What it >> doesn't do is provide a search mechanism for docs (static html). >> >> I think the best solution to my problem is to generate an index at >> build time (after the HTML has been generated), and ship that with the >> product. Since these files will literally never change, I want to >> avoid having to index every time I deploy my web app. So, in my case, >> the "indexing" and the "searching" operations are heavily disjoint. My >> question to the group is, Can/Should I do this with Lucene? Is my >> approach sane? Can an index be made portable? >> >> Thanks for your help! >> Nathan Wells >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org