Jeff,
I haven't heard anything back about your account request yet. (but
the officialness of the vote is in question - so it may be a while)
What about posting a .zip file to JIRA and having George or someone
commit it on your behalf and submit patches from then on?
Erik
On Aug 26, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Jeff Rodenburg wrote:
> As promised, an update to the list.
>
> I have code ready for delivery, if I can get svn access to the
contrib
> section. A request has been made for this but it's going nowhere,
> so I'm
> going to find another place to host the files.
>
> There's quite a bit of documentation behind this so I'm working
> diligently
> to explain how this works. If anyone has a place to hold the code
> until the
> uber-powers at apache decide to grant me access, we would greatly
> appreciate
> the assistance.
>
> cheers,
> jeff r.
>
>
> On 8/23/06, Jeff Rodenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Just a follow-up to everyone on this topic. I received a lot of
>> offlist
>> mail about this, so this message has a rather wide distribution.
>>
>> I'm in process of modifying the code for our distributed search
>> components
>> so that they're generic enough for general usage and public
>> consumption.
>> This is taking a little of my time, but nonetheless I expect to
>> complete it
>> soon.
>>
>> As for distributing the code, it will be located in the contrib
>> portion of
>> the Lucene.Net repository at apache.org. There is some
logistic work
>> involved, but ideally this is moving forward.
>>
>> As soon as I have more information to relay, I'll pass it along to
>> the
>> list.
>>
>> cheers,
>> jeff r.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/21/06, Jeff Rodenburg < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello all -
>> >
>> > I've been watching this thread to follow the direction and
>> thought I
>> > might be able to offer some assistance. I run a search system
>> that involves
>> > 4 separate search servers -- 3 serving search objects via
>> RemoteSearchable,
>> > and a 4th that serves in an index updating role.
>> >
>> > The codebase for Lucene.Net provides all the library routines
>> one needs
>> > to provide distributed search capabilities, but does not provide
>> facilities
>> > for distributed search operation -- nor should it. The ideas
>> presented here
>> > are certainly possible; I've implemented a working operation
>> without
>> > requiring the changes described here. I'm confident in our
>> implementation;
>> > for the calendar year, our uptime/availability of search
>> services is
>> > 99.99%. Our only outage was related to network hardware,
otherwise
>> > we're sitting solid at 100%.
>> >
>> > I've been authorized to provide our operational code for
>> distributed
>> > search under Lucene.Net to the community at large. Some of the
>> code is
>> > customized to our operation, but for the most part it's rather
>> generic. We
>> > started the project under Lucene v1.4.3, but the operational
aspect
>> > still applies under v1.9.
>> >
>> > The system consists of a LuceneServer, which provides
searchability
>> > against indexes as defined in XML configuration files. In
>> addition, an
>> > IndexUpdateServer provides master index updating, master/slave
>> index
>> > replication and automated index maintenance. Integration with
>> our web site
>> > ensures the index stays available, updated and current. There's
>> a great
>> > deal of applied knowledge and learned behavior of many of the
>> underlying
>> > sub-system components that distributed search under Lucene.Net
>> makes use
>> > of -- .Net remoting, garbage collection, etc.
>> >
>> > If anyone has interest, please reply. Contributing this code
>> requires a
>> > little cleanup of our customization work, so my response may
not be
>> > immediate but I would make efforts to release the code in short
>> order.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > jeff r.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8/19/06, Robert Boulanger < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi Elena, hi Rest,
>> > >
>> > > > Dear All,
>> > > >
>> > > > The application I am working on is intended to make use
of the
>> > > > distributed search capabilities of the Lucene library. While
>> trying
>> > > to
>> > > > work with the Lucene's RemoteSearchable class, I faced some
>> problems
>> > >
>> > > > cased by the current Lucene implementation. In following
>> I'll try to
>> > > > describe them, as well as the possible ways of their
>> solution, I
>> > > > identified. The most important question for me is, if these
>> changes
>> > > > have a chance to be integrated in the coming Lucene
>> versions, such
>> > > > that remote searches would really become feasible. I would
>> > > appreciate
>> > > > any feedback.
>> > >
>> > > Same problem for me and I found some more issues which I
explain
>> > > below:
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > The first problem concerns the construction of the
>> RemoteSearchable
>> > > > object. .Net framework allows for both, server and client
>> activation
>> > > > models of the remote objects. Currently, RemoteSearchable
class
>> > > > possesses only one constructor that requires knowledge of a
>> local
>> > > > Searchable object:
>> > > >
>> > > > public RemoteSearchable(Lucene.Net.Search.Searchable local)
>> > > >
>> > > I just added a new constructor to RemoteSearchable
>> > > public RemoteSearchable(): base()
>> > > {
>> > > this.local = this.local;
>> > > }
>> > >
>> > > not the fine method but for me it works so far.
>> > >
>> > > > Since this "local" object is located on the server,
>> knowledge of the
>> > >
>> > > > server's index paths is needed for its creation. However,
>> there are
>> > > at
>> > > > least some scenarios where only the server, but not the
client,
>> > > knows
>> > > > where the indexes are stored on the server side. I think
this
>> > > problem
>> > > > could be solved by extending RemoteSearchable class with a
>> standard
>> > > > constructor that reads the names of the indexes to be
>> published out
>> > > of
>> > > > a configuration file on the server side.
>> > > >
>> > > My "Server" now implements a Class which inherits directly
>> from Remote
>> > >
>> > > Searchable.
>> > > in the parameterless constructor there I read the server sided
>> > > configfile which contains the index location , create a new
>> > > IndexReader
>> > > and pass it as Argument to MyBase.New()
>> > > See sample below.
>> > >
>> > > > 2. Bug in Term construction
>> > > [snip]
>> > >
>> > > This whole chapter was very useful and I can commit everything
>> works
>> > > fine from there on.
>> > >
>> > > But there is still a bug in FieldDocSortedHitQueue line 130
>> and below:
>> > > I figured out that the castings are not working when the
>> system is
>> > > running in a non english globalization context.
>> > > The String in docAFields[i] which might be for example
>> 1.345678 is
>> > > casted to 1345678.0 since the decimal sign is misinterpreted
>> in German
>> > >
>> > > systems as it seems.
>> > > So the casting results in an overflow.
>> > >
>> > > So I changed it as follows:
>> > >
>> > > case SortField.SCORE:
>> > > float r1 = (float)Convert.ToSingle(docA.fields[i],
>> > > System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo );
>> > > float r2 = (float)Convert.ToSingle(docA.fields[i],
>> > > System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo);
>> > > if (r1 > r2)
>> > > c = - 1;
>> > > if (r1 < r2)
>> > > c = 1;
>> > > break;
>> > >
>> > > Same in line 172 and 174:
>> > >
>> > > float f1 = (float)Convert.ToSingle(docA.fields[i],
>> > > System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo);
>> > > //UPGRADE_TODO: The equivalent in .NET for method
>> > > 'java.lang.Float.floatValue' may return a different value.
>> > >
>> > > "ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_commoner/local/redirect.htm?index='!
>> DefaultContextWindowIndex'&keyword='jlca1043'"
>> > > float f2 = (float)Convert.ToSingle(docB.fields[i],
>> > > System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo );
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > A tiny Client Server Solution now looks like this (Here in
>> VB.NET)
>> > > SERVER:
>> > > Public Class RemoteQuery
>> > > Inherits RemoteSearchable
>> > > Public Sub New()
>> > > MyBase.New(New IndexSearcher("C:\lucene\index"))
>> > > End Sub
>> > > Public Sub New(ByVal local As Searchable)
>> > > MyBase.New(local)
>> > > End Sub
>> > >
>> > > End Class
>> > >
>> > > Module Module1
>> > > Public Sub Main(ByVal args As System.String())
>> > > Dim chnl As New HttpChannel(8888)
>> > > ChannelServices.RegisterChannel (chnl, False)
>> > > Dim indexName As System.String = Nothing
>> > > RemotingConfiguration.RegisterWellKnownServiceType
>> > > (GetType(RemoteQuery),
>> > > "Searchable", WellKnownObjectMode.Singleton)
>> > > System.Console.ReadLine()
>> > > End Sub
>> > > End Module
>> > > CLIENT
>> > > Sub Main()
>> > > Dim searchables As Lucene.Net.Search.Searchable() = New
>> > > Lucene.Net.Search.Searchable() {LookupRemote()}
>> > > Dim searcher As Searcher = New MultiSearcher(searchables)
>> > > Dim sort As New Lucene.Net.Search.Sort
>> > > sort.SetSort(Lucene.Net.Search.SortField.FIELD_SCORE)
>> > > Dim query As Query = QueryParser.Parse("Harry", "body", New
>> > > StandardAnalyzer())
>> > > Dim result As Hits = searcher.Search (query, sort)
>> > > End Sub
>> > > Private Function LookupRemote() As
Lucene.Net.Search.Searchable
>> > > Return CType(Activator.GetObject(GetType
>> (Lucene.Net.Search.Searchable
>> > > ),
>> > > " http://192.168.8.7:8888/Searchable";),
>> Lucene.Net.Search.Searchable)
>> > > End Function
>> > >
>> > > Hope this helps you and anybody else how has problems with
>> > > remotesearch
>> > > so far.
>> > >
>> > > BTW: this all refers Version 1.9rc1
>> > >
>> > > --Robert Boulanger
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>>
