Hi Thomas,
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Thomas Koch wrote:
slightly related to my previous post today: I was reading about a new faceted search support in java-lucene-34 - see Changelog: LUCENE-3079: a new facet module which provides faceted indexing & search capabilities. It allows managing a taxonomy of categories, and index them with documents. It also provides search API for aggregating (e.g. count) the weights of the categories that are relevant to the search results. (Shai Erera) ... and was tempted to give it a try in PyLucene. However it seems the classes are not contained in the default build, e.g. class LuceneTaxonomyWriter (from org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.lucene) is not available via 'from lucene import LuceneTaxonomyWriter'. I'm aware that the new facet support is part of lucene contrib and also thought that PyLucene would by default only contain the "lucene core" of Java-Lucene, but just encountered the opposite with the SynomyFilter (the new SynonymFilter is also part of lucene contrib but already included in the PyLucene 'core'). Not complaining about this, just trying to understand: based on what process/criteria is decided what java-lucene contrib modules are include in the default PyLucene built (aka 'core')? (Maybe Andi can shed a light on this ,-)
It slipped through the cracks :-) So, I added the facet contrib module to the build just now, in rev 1189709 of branch_3x.
I assume the best way to add other contrib moduls to your own PyLucene projects is to modify the Makefile and do a re-build, right? I noticed a hint in Makefile,line 148: # comment/uncomment the desired/undesired optional contrib modules below Here neither synonyms nor facets are mentioned - I guess the synonyms come in via the ANALYZERS_JAR and there's just a define FACET_JAR=$(LUCENE)/build/contrib/analyzers/common/lucene-facet-$(LUCENE_VER ).jar missing to get this included - will give it a try...
Yes, it's that simple.
Finally I'd of course be interested to know if anyone yet made experiments/experiences with the new fact support - may it be in java-lucene or PyLucene...
You might consider asking on the Lucene user list at java-u...@lucene.apache.org as well. Andi..
