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Lucy::Highlight::Highlighter(3pm)

Create and highlight excerpts.

NAME

Lucy::Highlight::Highlighter - Create and highlight excerpts.

SYNOPSIS

    my $highlighter = Lucy::Highlight::Highlighter->new(
        searcher => $searcher,
        query    => $query,
        field    => 'body'
    );
    my $hits = $searcher->hits( query => $query );
    while ( my $hit = $hits->next ) {
        my $excerpt = $highlighter->create_excerpt($hit);
        ...
    }

DESCRIPTION

The Highlighter can be used to select relevant snippets from a document, and to surround search terms with highlighting tags. It handles both stems and phrases correctly and efficiently, using special-purpose data generated at index-time.

CONSTRUCTORS

new( [labeled params] )

    my $highlighter = Lucy::Highlight::Highlighter->new(
        searcher       => $searcher,    # required
        query          => $query,       # required
        field          => 'content',    # required
        excerpt_length => 150,          # default: 200
    );
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searcher - An object which inherits from Searcher, such as an IndexSearcher.

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query - Query object or a query string.

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field - The name of the field from which to draw the excerpt. The field must marked as be "highlightable" (see FieldType).

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excerpt_length - Maximum length of the excerpt, in characters.

METHODS

create_excerpt(hit_doc)

Take a HitDoc object and return a highlighted excerpt as a string if the HitDoc has a value for the specified "field".

highlight(text)

Highlight a small section of text. By default, prepends pre-tag and appends post-tag. This method is called internally by create_excerpt() when assembling an excerpt.

encode(text)

Encode text with HTML entities. This method is called internally by create_excerpt() for each text fragment when assembling an excerpt. A subclass can override this if the text should be encoded differently or not at all.

set_pre_tag(pre_tag)

Setter. The default value is "<strong>".

get_pre_tag()

Accessor.

set_post_tag(post_tag)

Setter. The default value is "</strong>".

get_post_tag()

Accessor.

get_searcher()

Accessor.

get_query()

Accessor.

get_compiler()

Accessor for the Lucy::Search::Compiler object derived from "query" and "searcher".

get_excerpt_length()

Accessor.

get_field()

Accessor.

INHERITANCE

Lucy::Highlight::Highlighter isa Lucy::Object::Obj.

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