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Install Apache Lucene

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especi...

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What is Apache Lucene ?

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. It is an open source project available for free download.

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As I was submitted to the Google Summer of Code 2016 (GSoC), I tried to install Apache Lucene 6.0.0 for learning basical concept before the final answer at 25th April.

Download Apache Lucene 6.0.0

First, I’ve downloaded the latest Lucene distribution (6.0.0) and then extract it to my GSoC working directory located at ~/Documents/gsoc

Include jars for demo

Assume that we’re located at the root path of Apache Lucene installation. THere’re 4 jars that should be included for the demo, they’re :

  • the Lucene JAR ./core/lucene-core-6.0.0.jar
  • the queryparser JAR ./queryparser/lucene-queryparser-6.0.0.jar
  • the common analysis JAR ./analysis/common/lucene-analyzers-common-6.0.0.jar
  • the Lucene demo JAR ./demo/lucene-demo-6.0.0.jar

Use the linux commandline export to add jars into java classpath :

$ export PATH=/home/mincong/Documents/gsoc/lucene-6.0.0/core/lucene-core-6.0.0.jar:/home/mincong/Documents/gsoc/lucene-6.0.0/queryparser/lucene-queryparser-6.0.0.jar:/home/mincong/Documents/gsoc/lucene-6.0.0/analysis/common/lucene-analyzers-common-6.0.0.jar:/home/mincong/Documents/gsoc/lucene-6.0.0/demo/lucene-demo-6.0.0.jar:$PATH

Indexing Files

Once I’ve done that, I should now build an index! Assuming I’m currently located at the home of lucene, then tape the following command the build index for folder docs. Please notice that the official tutorial suggests to use src folder. But this folder is not avaible to Apache Lucene 6.0.0 installation (I’m using lucene-6.0.0.tgz). So use another folder if you’re in the same situation, such as docs :

java org.apache.lucene.demo.IndexFiles -docs docs

This will produce a subdirectory called index which will contain an index of all of the Lucene source code.

Search results

We can search index / results using the following commandline :

java org.apache.lucene.demo.SearchFiles

Here’re the search results for keyword huangmincong and keyword string :

mincong@mincong-samsung:~/Documents/gsoc/lucene-6.0.0$ java org.apache.lucene.demo.SearchFiles
Enter query: 
huangmincong
Searching for: huangmincong
0 total matching documents
Enter query: 
string
Searching for: string
1748 total matching documents
1. docs/analyzers-common/org/apache/lucene/analysis/util/AbstractAnalysisFactory.html
2. docs/benchmark/org/apache/lucene/benchmark/byTask/utils/Format.html
3. docs/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/class-use/ParseException.html
4. docs/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/ext/Extensions.html
5. docs/core/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexFileNames.html
6. docs/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/DOMUtils.html
7. docs/highlighter/org/apache/lucene/search/vectorhighlight/BaseFragmentsBuilder.html
8. docs/highlighter/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/PostingsHighlighter.html
9. docs/analyzers-common/org/apache/lucene/analysis/custom/CustomAnalyzer.Builder.html
10. docs/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/flexible/core/messages/QueryParserMessages.html
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Tomorrow, I’ll learn more about how Lucene works,especially the IndexFiles, the Analyzer, the Directory and the IndexWriter.

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