Soliciting Design Thoughts on Date Searching

[Walt Stoneburner <wa...@gmail.com>]

I've been asked if it's possible to search on dates within a document.
 The high level goal is to index a number of documents which mention
specific dates, and then perform a broad query for documents that
mention dates within a certain time period.

In thinking about how to go about solving this problem, I would figure
one would need a filter to extract all the date formats and store them
in a separate field, perhaps as a list.

Has anyone done something like this with Lucene, or perhaps could give
me some gentle design issues / recommendations for consideration so
that I don't paint myself into a corner later?

Thanks,
-Walt Stoneburner

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Re: Soliciting Design Thoughts on Date Searching

[Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>]

If you search the mailing list archive for 'date', you'll find a wealth of
discussion on this topic. Also, try DateTools, DateRange, etc.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/


Erick

On 2/27/07, Walt Stoneburner <wa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been asked if it's possible to search on dates within a document.
> The high level goal is to index a number of documents which mention
> specific dates, and then perform a broad query for documents that
> mention dates within a certain time period.
>
> In thinking about how to go about solving this problem, I would figure
> one would need a filter to extract all the date formats and store them
> in a separate field, perhaps as a list.
>
> Has anyone done something like this with Lucene, or perhaps could give
> me some gentle design issues / recommendations for consideration so
> that I don't paint myself into a corner later?
>
> Thanks,
> -Walt Stoneburner
>
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