Apache Lucy recipes

The Cookbook provides thematic documentation covering some of Apache Lucy's more sophisticated features. For a step-by-step introduction to Lucy, see .

Chapters

• - While index updates are fast on average, worst-case update performance may be significantly slower. To make index updates consistently quick, we must manually intervene to control the process of index segment consolidation.

• - Explore Lucy's support for custom query types by creating a "PrefixQuery" class to handle trailing wildcards.

• - Define your own custom search query syntax using and Parse::RecDescent.

Materials

Some of the recipes in the Cookbook reference the completed application. These materials can be found in the sample directory at the root of the Lucy distribution:

sample/indexer.pl        # indexing app
sample/search.cgi        # search app
sample/us_constitution   # corpus