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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 22:34:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: clucene and couchdb
From: David Coallier <davidc@php.net>
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>
> I am writing a clucene indexer for CouchDB, I have
> update_notifications and _fti as a db handler working. I am using
> stdout/stdin for the communication and it is looking good.
>
> Looking at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Full_text_search I see that
> the index property in the design document is a javascript function and
> I am wondering why? For views I can understand why you would want to
> do an evaluation but for Lucene could we just use a JSON Path
> reference?
>
> Thoughts appreciated, since I am in C++ and SpiderMonkey is available
> I could do an eval of the javascript, but it might be easier just to
> parse the JSON path.
>
> We will be putting this CLucene implementation in the public domain
> once I have cleared the necessary internal paperwork.
>
> CLucene is dual license (Apache and LGPL) and I am using Cajun (BSD)
> for the JSON parsing so should I host this separately or take out a
> JIRA ticket to have it included in CouchDB?
>

Just out of curiosity, have you seen couchdb-lucene
(http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene) ?

-- 
David Coallier