Hi,
I'm using lucene (which rocks, btw ;) behind the scenes at www.last.fm for
various things, and i've run into a situation that seems somewhat inelegant
regarding populating fields which i already know the termvector for.
I'm creating a document for each user (last.fm tracks music taste for people),
with a field that depicts a users favourite 500 artists. Each artist is
represented by an integer, here's a simple example with 3 artists:
If i've listened to Radiohead (id 1) 10 times, Coldplay (id 2) 5 times and
Beck (id 3) 2 times, the field would look like this "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
2 2 2 3 3"
I use this index for quickly finding "top fans" of an artist or combination of
artists, comparing peoples music taste and other things on the fly.
The issue is that i already have the termvecor (radiohead=10, coldplay=5,
beck=2) handy as a hashtable, and i've found myself building up a string of
numbers separated by spaces as shown above, then feeding this into lucene (i
store the termvec of the field in lucene). Is there a way i could pass a
termvector directly to lucene to cut out the ugly "turn it into a string and
let lucene parse it" step? basically i want to provide the termvector for a
field when inserting a new document, rather than let lucene build it by
analyzing a string.
This does feel like a rather perverted use of lucene i suppose.. It's faster
and less hassle than other methods i've tried to date though.
Regards,
RJ
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