How do you implement a custom filter with Lucene.net?

Question

The code below is from the Lucene In Action book (originally in Java). It\'s for building a list of \'allowed\' documents (from a user permission point of view) to filter se

Answer 1

Here's a working example of Lucene.NET using a custom filter you might take a look at:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using Lucene.Net.Analysis;
using Lucene.Net.Documents;
using Lucene.Net.Index;
using Lucene.Net.Search;
using Lucene.Net.Store;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Directory index = new RAMDirectory();
        Analyzer analyzer = new KeywordAnalyzer();
        IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(index, analyzer, true);

        Document doc = new Document();
        doc.Add(new Field("title", "t1", Field.Store.YES, 
            Field.Index.TOKENIZED));
        writer.AddDocument(doc);
        doc = new Document();
        doc.Add(new Field("title", "t2", Field.Store.YES, 
            Field.Index.TOKENIZED));
        writer.AddDocument(doc);

        writer.Close();

        Searcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(index);
        Query query = new MatchAllDocsQuery();
        Filter filter = new LuceneCustomFilter();
        Sort sort = new Sort("title", true);
        Hits hits = searcher.Search(query, filter, sort);
        IEnumerator hitsEnumerator = hits.Iterator();

        while (hitsEnumerator.MoveNext())
        {
            Hit hit = (Hit)hitsEnumerator.Current;
            Console.WriteLine(hit.GetDocument().GetField("title").
                StringValue());
        }
    }
}

public class LuceneCustomFilter : Filter
{
    public override BitArray Bits(IndexReader indexReader)
    {
        BitArray bitarray = new BitArray(indexReader.MaxDoc());

        int[] docs = new int[1];
        int[] freq = new int[1];

        TermDocs termDocs = indexReader.TermDocs(
                new Term(@"title", "t1"));

        int count = termDocs.Read(docs, freq);
        if (count == 1)
        {
            bitarray.Set(docs[0], true);
        }
        return bitarray;
    }
}