posted 20 years ago
I am new to Lucene. I want to use lucene as the searching enging to look for articles that are stores in the database.
It is OKay to search articles in the database using "only one" pair of property/value as parameters in a method; for example:
********Property***************Value
*********author************Victor Hugo or .....
*********title*************Les Miserables or .....
********content***************whatever .....
**********id*********************168
visitors of the web site queries all articles in the database by selecting 'author' as the property and supply the name of the author (xyz) as value.
I am stuck because I need to pass additonal parameters rather than using one pair of property/value as parameters -- I have this field "category" in my database. I want to search and get all the articles written by author(property) with name xyz (value) within; say, the HISTORY category. The value of the category will be supplied by the application developer (NOT BY THE VISITOR of the web site via selecting from a drop-down list and fill out the value in the text field).
Is there a method signature available in Lucene to pass additional parameter as necessary? If not, how does Lucene handle this kind of situation. People say that Lucene is very flexible. Thanks in advance.
[ November 03, 2003: Message edited by: JiaPei Jen ]