Re: Hello, world for Hadoop + Lucene

[Ning Li <ni...@gmail.com>]

Sorry for the late reply. You can refer to the test case
TestIndexUpdater.java as an example. It uses the index contrib to
build a Lucene index and verifies by querying on the index built.

Cheers,
Ning


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:05 PM, John Howland <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> Is there any sort of "Hello, world!" example for building a Lucene
> index with Hadoop? I am looking through the source in contrib/index
> and it is a bit beyond me at the moment. Alternatively, is there more
> documentation related to the contrib/index example code?
>
> There seems to be a lot of information out on the tubes for how to do
> distribute indices and query them (e.g. Katta). Nutch obviously also
> comes up, but it is not clear to me how to come to grips with Nutch
> and I'm not interested in web crawling. What I'm looking for is a
> simple example for the hadoop/lucene newbie where you can take a
> String or a Text object and index it as a document. If,
> understandably, such an example does not exist, any pointers from the
> experts would be appreciated. I don't care as much about real world
> usage/performance, as I do about pedagogical code which can serve as a
> base for learning, just to give me a toehold.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> John
>