Hi,
I have the column definition like:

There is no documentation about indexing complex types like "XML" with hibernate search framework. What would be the first steps for this? Defining custom Analyzer?


thanks.

Hi,

if you want to index xml you will need indeed a custom analyzer. Somehow you have to extract the values to be indexed from the xml.

Thank you for the instant response,

There is any XML analyzer already which I could use as starting point? or I should write it from the scratch. It would be very helpful if you can point out some documentation or at least some very basics steps.

I am not aware of a "standard" xml analyzer. There are so many different libraries and ways to parse and extract the text from an xml document that it is hard to recommend a "best" approach. You could for example use SAX to parse the document.

--Hardy

Hi Hardy,

I'm using JAXB for my XML files/objects so marshall/unmarshall is not a problem. But I would like to create new lucene fields based on unmarshalled xml file, unfortunately in the Analyzer I see only plain string token.
There is any other approach for this instead of using analyzer? Or How can I add custom fields from Analyzer.
In the end if I will have some xml like:


I would like to find it by using lucene search query like:


So for this I will need to create from xml the new Field named age with value 65.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.




thanks for your help,
Dima

An alternative approach would be a custom field bridge (check the Search online documentation). Provided the xml string is stored in a String property within an indexed class, you could annotate the property with @Field and @FieldBridge. I your bridge implementation you would then use JAXB to parse the xml and extract the key value pairs you want to add to the index.

--Hardy

Hi Hardy,

This "FieldBridge" seems to be exactly what I need, thank you very much.


with best regards,
Dima