Hi! I have been working with Lucene for a while now. So far, I found helpful tips on this list, so I hope somebody can help me with my problem:
In our app information is grouped in so-called cards. Now, it should be made possible to also search on files linked to the cards. You can link arbitrarily many files to a card and the size of the files is also not restricted. So, as far as I can see, there are two ways to do this: 1. Add the content of the files to the search index of the card. First, I thought that I could just have an additional field in the index which contains the content of all the files. But then, if the files are very big, I could hit the field size limit, and would possibly not get the content of all files indexed. So, I would need one field per file. The problem I have then is that I don't know how many files I have and how large the index would get. This is risky, because some customers have a lot of data. 2. Create a separate index for files. The documents in this index would contain one file each, so I would not have the problem that I don't know how many fields I have. But then, the searching is a problem: I would need to search on both the card and the document index, and somehow merge the results together. I sort by score always, but, as I understand it, the scores of the results of two different indexes are not comparable. So, which way do you think is better? Best, Anna __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verfügt über einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
