I guess you could force the developer to return a JSON object with all
those settings in them. For me, it made more sense to let them
programmatically build an object. It also eliminated the expensive
object-to-JSON conversion in previous versions.

You are under no obligation to follow the couchdb-lucene programming
model. That's my invention, not CouchDB's. Do whatever makes sense for
your project.

B.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Norman Barker <norman.barker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> it seems I can fake a document object in spidermonkey (as I would like
> to be compatible with Java Lucene) by doing var document = new
> MyDocument(); where my MyDocument is an object we have defined.
> However looking over your code I suggest that we could just use
>
> {
>  "value": _,
>  "type" : _,
>  "field" : _
> }
>
> as the return and keep with JSON parsing as the message protocol as
> per CouchDB.
>
> I know that JSON doesn't have a date type, but the type definition
> overrides that.
>
> Your comments appreciated as I am probably missing something.
>
> Norman
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Norman Barker <norman.barker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Robert,
>>
>> thanks, I am looking at the examples in your code. So
>>
>> var ret=new Document(); ret.add(parseInt(\"12.5\"), {type:\"int\",
>> field:\"num\"});
>>
>> I still don't see why you need the document object, why not just a
>> JSON structure?
>>
>> 'new Document()' does cause a problem in SpiderMonkey for me when I am
>> calling it from clucene but I will try to get it to work.
>>
>> Norman
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Robert Newson <robert.newson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The example on the wiki page is the most trivial example. Look at the
>>> examples at http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene for less trivial
>>> ones.
>>>
>>> The reason for a Document object is that there are many different ways
>>> to index your date (different fields, numeric, date, tokenized, not
>>> tokenized, stored, not stored, etc).
>>>
>>> B.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Norman Barker <norman.barker@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> why in
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Full_text_search
>>>>
>>>> does the index function create a new document and add results to it?
>>>>
>>>> is it equally valid just to return a string?
>>>>
>>>> I have nearly finished the clucene integration now, I will be posting
>>>> some code towards the end of the week.
>>>>
>>>> If I have missed something with the new Document() in the index js
>>>> function please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Norman
>>>>
>>>
>>
>