Or: Introducing Spatial4n

The Lucene spatial contrib module has been a nice addition to Lucene, but for a while now too many bug reports have been piling up, and it got to a point where it was clear something was broken somewhere deep inside. Luckily, a bunch of good people started writing their own...

In a previous post I described how to use FVH to highlight contents which went through filters / readers like HTMLStripCharFilter in the analysis process. As DIGY in the comments spotted right away, my approach was all wrong. Yes, I knew any CharFilter or Tokenizer implementation would store term po...

NOTE: The approach described below is wrong, you may want to read the follow-up post.

Perhaps you have tackled this before: you wanted to use Lucene's FastVectorHighlighter (aka FVH), but since you have a custom CharFilter in your analysis chain, the highlighter fails to produce valid fragments.

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Whenever you start doing real-world stuff with Lucene you find yourself hacking and extending. That's the beauty of Lucene - it has so many extension points, and you can write almost every part of it from scratch to match your requirements. Lately I've been working on some stuff relating to both Rav...