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=head1 NAME

Lucy - Apache Lucy search engine library.

=head1 VERSION

0.2.9_03

=head1 SYNOPSIS

First, plan out your index structure, create the index, and add documents:

    # indexer.pl
    
    use Lucy::Index::Indexer;
    use Lucy::Plan::Schema;
    use Lucy::Analysis::PolyAnalyzer;
    use Lucy::Plan::FullTextType;
    
    # Create a Schema which defines index fields.
    my $schema = Lucy::Plan::Schema->new;
    my $polyanalyzer = Lucy::Analysis::PolyAnalyzer->new( 
        language => 'en',
    );
    my $type = Lucy::Plan::FullTextType->new(
        analyzer => $polyanalyzer,
    );
    $schema->spec_field( name => 'title',   type => $type );
    $schema->spec_field( name => 'content', type => $type );
    
    # Create the index and add documents.
    my $indexer = Lucy::Index::Indexer->new(
        schema => $schema,   
        index  => '/path/to/index',
        create => 1,
    );
    while ( my ( $title, $content ) = each %source_docs ) {
        $indexer->add_doc({
            title   => $title,
            content => $content,
        });
    }
    $indexer->commit;

Then, search the index:

    # search.pl
    
    use Lucy::Search::IndexSearcher;
    
    my $searcher = Lucy::Search::IndexSearcher->new( 
        index => '/path/to/index' 
    );
    my $hits = $searcher->hits( query => "foo bar" );
    while ( my $hit = $hits->next ) {
        print "$hit->{title}\n";
    }

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Apache Lucy is a high-performance, modular search engine library.

=head2 Features

=over

=item *

Extremely fast.  A single machine can handle millions of documents.

=item *

Scalable to multiple machines.

=item *

Incremental indexing (addition/deletion of documents to/from an existing
index).

=item *

Configurable near-real-time index updates.

=item *

Unicode support.

=item *

Support for boolean operators AND, OR, and AND NOT; parenthetical groupings;
prepended +plus and -minus.

=item *

Algorithmic selection of relevant excerpts and highlighting of search terms
within excerpts.

=item *

Highly customizable query and indexing APIs.

=item *

Customizable sorting.

=item *

Phrase matching.

=item *

Stemming.

=item *

Stoplists.

=back

=head2 Getting Started

L<Lucy::Simple> provides a stripped down API which may suffice for many
tasks.

L<Lucy::Docs::Tutorial> demonstrates how to build a basic CGI search
application.  

The tutorial spends most of its time on these five classes:

=over 

=item *

L<Lucy::Plan::Schema> - Plan out your index.

=item *

L<Lucy::Plan::FieldType> - Define index fields.

=item *

L<Lucy::Index::Indexer> - Manipulate index content.

=item *

L<Lucy::Search::IndexSearcher> - Search an index.

=item *

L<Lucy::Analysis::PolyAnalyzer> - A one-size-fits-all parser/tokenizer.

=back

=head2 Delving Deeper

L<Lucy::Docs::Cookbook> augments the tutorial with more advanced
recipes.

For creating complex queries, see L<Lucy::Search::Query> and its
subclasses L<TermQuery|Lucy::Search::TermQuery>,
L<PhraseQuery|Lucy::Search::PhraseQuery>,
L<ANDQuery|Lucy::Search::ANDQuery>,
L<ORQuery|Lucy::Search::ORQuery>,
L<NOTQuery|Lucy::Search::NOTQuery>,
L<RequiredOptionalQuery|Lucy::Search::RequiredOptionalQuery>,
L<MatchAllQuery|Lucy::Search::MatchAllQuery>, and
L<NoMatchQuery|Lucy::Search::NoMatchQuery>, plus
L<Lucy::Search::QueryParser>.

For distributed searching, see L<LucyX::Remote::SearchServer>,
L<LucyX::Remote::SearchClient>, and L<LucyX::Remote::ClusterSearcher>.

=head2 Backwards Compatibility Policy

Lucy will spin off stable forks into new namespaces periodically.  The first
will be named "Lucy1".  Users who require strong backwards compatibility
should use a stable fork.

The main namespace, "Lucy", is an API-unstable development branch (as hinted
at by its 0.x.x version number).  Superficial interface changes happen
frequently.  Hard file format compatibility breaks which require reindexing
are rare, as we generally try to provide continuity across multiple releases,
but we reserve the right to make such changes.

=head1 CLASS METHODS

The Lucy module itself does not have a large interface, providing only a
single public class method.

=head2 error

    my $instream = $folder->open_in( file => 'foo' ) or die Lucy->error;

Access a shared variable which is set by some routines on failure.  It will
always be either a L<Lucy::Object::Err> object or undef.

=head1 SUPPORT

The Apache Lucy homepage, where you'll find links to our mailing lists and so
on, is L<http://incubator.apache.org/lucy>.  Please direct support questions
to the Lucy users mailing list.

=head1 BUGS

Not thread-safe.

Some exceptions leak memory.

If you find a bug, please inquire on the Lucy users mailing list about it,
then report it on the Lucy issue tracker once it has been confirmed:
L<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCY>.

=head1 DISCLAIMER

Apache Lucy is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator. Incubation is required of
all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the
infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in
a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation
status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the
code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the
ASF.

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Apache Lucy is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, as
described in the file C<LICENSE> included with the distribution.

=cut

