Is there a better tool than Solr to use for my situation?
On Apr 23, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote:
> There is no simple, obvious, and direct approach, right out of the box. Sure,
> you can highlight passages of raw text, right out of the box, but that won't
> give you chapters, pages, and line numbers. To do all of that, you would have
> to either:
>
> 1. Add chapter, page, and line number as part of the payload for each word.
> And add some custom document transformers to access the information.
> or
> 2. Index each line as a separate Solr document, with fields for book,
> chapter, page, and line number.
>
> -- Jack Krupansky
>
> -Original Message- From: Jason Funk
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:02 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Book text with chapter line number
>
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to figure out if Solr is going to work for a new project that I am
> wanting to build. At it's heart it's a book text searching application. Each
> book is broken into chapters and each chapter is broken into lines. I want to
> be able to search these books and return relevant sections of the book and
> display the results with chapter and line number. I'm not sure how I would
> structure my data so that it's efficient and functional. I could simply treat
> each line of text as a document which would provide some of the functionality
> but what if the search query spanned two lines? Then it seems the passage the
> user was searching for wouldn't be returned. I could treat each book as a
> document and use highlighting to find the context but that seems to limit
> weighting/results for best matches as well as difficultly in finding
> chapter/line numbers. What is the best way to do this with Solr?
>
> Is there a better tool to use to solve my problem?
