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?
