Is there a better tool than Solr to use for my situation?
On Apr 23, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> 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?
