# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more # contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with # this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. # The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 # (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with # the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. =head1 NAME Lucy::Docs::Tutorial::Highlighter - Augment search results with highlighted excerpts. =head1 DESCRIPTION Adding relevant excerpts with highlighted search terms to your search results display makes it much easier for end users to scan the page and assess which hits look promising, dramatically improving their search experience. =head2 Adaptations to indexer.pl L uses information generated at index time. To save resources, highlighting is disabled by default and must be turned on for individual fields. my $highlightable = Lucy::Plan::FullTextType->new( analyzer => $polyanalyzer, highlightable => 1, ); $schema->spec_field( name => 'content', type => $highlightable ); =head2 Adaptations to search.cgi To add highlighting and excerpting to the search.cgi sample app, create a C<$highlighter> object outside the hits iterating loop... my $highlighter = Lucy::Highlight::Highlighter->new( searcher => $searcher, query => $q, field => 'content' ); ... then modify the loop and the per-hit display to generate and include the excerpt. # Create result list. my $report = ''; while ( my $hit = $hits->next ) { my $score = sprintf( "%0.3f", $hit->get_score ); my $excerpt = $highlighter->create_excerpt($hit); $report .= qq|

$hit->{title} $score
$excerpt
$hit->{url}

|; } =head2 Next chapter: Query objects Our next tutorial chapter, L, illustrates how to build an "advanced search" interface using L objects instead of query strings.