Lucene Tutorial - Lucene Search File








Searching process is the process to do the searching.

The following table lists classes used during searching process.

ClassDescription
IndexSearcherreads/searches indexes created after indexing process.
TermThe lowest unit of searching. It is similar to Field in indexing process.
QueryAn abstract class and contains various utility methods and is the parent of all types of queries.
TermQueryTermQuery is a query object and we can use it to create many complex queries.
TopDocsTopDocs stores the top N search results.

Example

The following code shows how to search the indexed files.

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.Date;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardAnalyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
import org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
import org.apache.lucene.queryparser.classic.QueryParser;
import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
import org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory;
import org.apache.lucene.util.Version;

/** Simple command-line based search demo. */
public class Main {
  private Main() {}
  /** Simple command-line based search demo. */
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String usage =
      "Usage:\tjava SearchFiles [-index dir] [-field f] [-repeat n] [-queries file] [-query string] [-raw] [-paging hitsPerPage]\n\nSee http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_1_0/demo/ for details.";
    if (args.length > 0 && ("-h".equals(args[0]) || "-help".equals(args[0]))) {
      System.out.println(usage);
      System.exit(0);
    }

    String index = "index";
    String field = "contents";
    String queries = null;
    int repeat = 0;
    boolean raw = false;
    String queryString = null;
    int hitsPerPage = 10;
    
    for(int i = 0;i < args.length;i++) {
      if ("-index".equals(args[i])) {
        index = args[i+1];
        i++;
      } else if ("-field".equals(args[i])) {
        field = args[i+1];
        i++;
      } else if ("-queries".equals(args[i])) {
        queries = args[i+1];
        i++;
      } else if ("-query".equals(args[i])) {
        queryString = args[i+1];
        i++;
      } else if ("-repeat".equals(args[i])) {
        repeat = Integer.parseInt(args[i+1]);
        i++;
      } else if ("-raw".equals(args[i])) {
        raw = true;
      } else if ("-paging".equals(args[i])) {
        hitsPerPage = Integer.parseInt(args[i+1]);
        if (hitsPerPage <= 0) {
          System.err.println("There must be at least 1 hit per page.");
          System.exit(1);
        }
        i++;
      }
    }
    
    IndexReader reader = DirectoryReader.open(FSDirectory.open(new File(index)));
    IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(reader);
    // :Post-Release-Update-Version.LUCENE_XY:
    Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(Version.LUCENE_4_10_0);

    BufferedReader in = null;
    if (queries != null) {
      in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(queries), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
    } else {
      in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
    }
    // :Post-Release-Update-Version.LUCENE_XY:
    QueryParser parser = new QueryParser(Version.LUCENE_4_10_0, field, analyzer);
    while (true) {
      if (queries == null && queryString == null) {                        // prompt the user
        System.out.println("Enter query: ");
      }

      String line = queryString != null ? queryString : in.readLine();

      if (line == null || line.length() == -1) {
        break;
      }

      line = line.trim();
      if (line.length() == 0) {
        break;
      }
      
      Query query = parser.parse(line);
      System.out.println("Searching for: " + query.toString(field));
            
      if (repeat > 0) {                           // repeat & time as benchmark
        Date start = new Date();
        for (int i = 0; i < repeat; i++) {
          searcher.search(query, null, 100);
        }
        Date end = new Date();
        System.out.println("Time: "+(end.getTime()-start.getTime())+"ms");
      }

      doPagingSearch(in, searcher, query, hitsPerPage, raw, queries == null && queryString == null);

      if (queryString != null) {
        break;
      }
    }
    reader.close();
  }

  /**
   * This demonstrates a typical paging search scenario, where the search engine presents 
   * pages of size n to the user. The user can then go to the next page if interested in
   * the next hits.
   * 
   * When the query is executed for the first time, then only enough results are collected
   * to fill 5 result pages. If the user wants to page beyond this limit, then the query
   * is executed another time and all hits are collected.
   * 
   */
  public static void doPagingSearch(BufferedReader in, IndexSearcher searcher, Query query, 
                                     int hitsPerPage, boolean raw, boolean interactive) throws IOException {
 
    // Collect enough docs to show 5 pages
    TopDocs results = searcher.search(query, 5 * hitsPerPage);
    ScoreDoc[] hits = results.scoreDocs;
    
    int numTotalHits = results.totalHits;
    System.out.println(numTotalHits + " total matching documents");

    int start = 0;
    int end = Math.min(numTotalHits, hitsPerPage);
        
    while (true) {
      if (end > hits.length) {
        System.out.println("Only results 1 - " + hits.length +" of " + numTotalHits + " total matching documents collected.");
        System.out.println("Collect more (y/n) ?");
        String line = in.readLine();
        if (line.length() == 0 || line.charAt(0) == 'n') {
          break;
        }

        hits = searcher.search(query, numTotalHits).scoreDocs;
      }
      
      end = Math.min(hits.length, start + hitsPerPage);
      
      for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
        if (raw) {                              // output raw format
          System.out.println("doc="+hits[i].doc+" score="+hits[i].score);
          continue;
        }

        Document doc = searcher.doc(hits[i].doc);
        String path = doc.get("path");
        if (path != null) {
          System.out.println((i+1) + ". " + path);
          String title = doc.get("title");
          if (title != null) {
            System.out.println("   Title: " + doc.get("title"));
          }
        } else {
          System.out.println((i+1) + ". " + "No path for this document");
        }
                  
      }

      if (!interactive || end == 0) {
        break;
      }

      if (numTotalHits >= end) {
        boolean quit = false;
        while (true) {
          System.out.print("Press ");
          if (start - hitsPerPage >= 0) {
            System.out.print("(p)revious page, ");  
          }
          if (start + hitsPerPage < numTotalHits) {
            System.out.print("(n)ext page, ");
          }
          System.out.println("(q)uit or enter number to jump to a page.");
          
          String line = in.readLine();
          if (line.length() == 0 || line.charAt(0)=='q') {
            quit = true;
            break;
          }
          if (line.charAt(0) == 'p') {
            start = Math.max(0, start - hitsPerPage);
            break;
          } else if (line.charAt(0) == 'n') {
            if (start + hitsPerPage < numTotalHits) {
              start+=hitsPerPage;
            }
            break;
          } else {
            int page = Integer.parseInt(line);
            if ((page - 1) * hitsPerPage < numTotalHits) {
              start = (page - 1) * hitsPerPage;
              break;
            } else {
              System.out.println("No such page");
            }
          }
        }
        if (quit) break;
        end = Math.min(numTotalHits, start + hitsPerPage);
      }
    }
  }
}