Search Engine

[Ype Kingma]

Thomas Guettler schreef:

> Hi!
> 
> I need a search engine which can handle this
> kind of data:
> 
> {"1": #Object one
>   {"foo_attribute1": "my data",
>    "foo_attribute2": "foo bar, bla blu",
>    ...},
>  "2": #Object two
>   {"foo_attribute1": "bau",
>    "foo_attribute2": "next one",
>    ...
>   }
>  ...
> }
> 
> The attributes can contain several MByte of
> text. The text should be searchable.
> 
> There will be several thousand objects
> 
> I need the following API:
> 
>  search_engine.addObject(myObj)
> 
>  search_engine.search(
>       {
>        "foo_attribute1": "word1",
>        "foo_attribute2": "word2"
>       })
> 
>  search_engine.deleteObject(id="1")
> 
> 
> Up to now I have two possible solutions:
> 
>  1. Hack htdig to do the things I want to,
>     and add a python interface
> 
>  2. Use ZCatalog
> 
> What do you think? Has some experience with
> python-based searchengines?

In case you don't mind using jython, lucene will
do this easily.

Have fun,
Ype


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