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Overview
Some Geode users have data models containing nested and complex objects. Lucene text search in Geode 1.2.0 supports indexing and querying only the top-level fields in the data object. The objective of this feature is to support indexing and querying an arbitrary depth of nested objects.
Goals
User can specify fields in nested object to be indexed.
User can query on these nested fields and collections of nested fields as well as top level fields.
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Approach
Expose a LuceneSerializer interface and let the user write code to convert their objects to lucene docs.
Provide a default LuceneSerializer when creating the index that will flatten nested objects (eg, person.address.zip just gets stored as a list of zipcodes on the top level document).
- Provide a query syntax to search nested, flattened, fields.
Out of Scope
- Item in collection will not be index and searched.
- Extending core Apache Lucene functionality to define a syntax for creating multiple documents and performing automatic joins in the StandardQueryParser for handling parent/child relationships with collections of nested fields.
API Change
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- Add a new method to create a lucene index that takes a callback. The callback gives the user explicit control of how their value is converted to lucene documents and stored in the index.
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public LuceneIndexFactory { /** * Create aConfigure the way objects are converted to lucene indexdocuments for usingthis defaultlucene analyzer.index * @param luceneSerializer A callback which converts a region value to a * Lucene document or documents to be stored in the index. */ public public voidLuceneIndexFactory createIndex(String indexName, String regionPath, setLuceneSerializer(LuceneSerializer luceneSerializer); } /** * An interface for writing the fields of an object into a lucene document * The region key will be added as a field to the returned documents. * @param index lucene index * @param value user object to be serialized into index */ public interface LuceneSerializer { Collection<Document> toDocuments(LuceneIndex index, Object value); } |
XML Configuration
<cache xmlns:lucene="http://geode.apache.org/schema/lucene" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.0"> <region name="region" refid="PARTITION"> <lucene:index name="index"> <lucene:field name="a" analyzer="org.apache.lucene.analysis.core.KeywordAnalyzer"/> <lucene:field name="b" analyzer="org.apache.lucene.analysis.core.SimpleAnalyzer"/> <lucene:field name="c" analyzer="org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.ClassicAnalyzer"/> <lucene:serializer> <class-name>org.apache.geode.cache.lucene.FlatFormatSerializer</class-name> </lucene:serializer> </lucene:index> </region> </cache> |
We will also provide a built-in implementation for LuceneSerializer
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called FlatFormatSerializer(). With this example serializer users can specify nested fields using the syntax fieldnameAtLevel1.fieldnameAtLevel2
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for both indexing and querying.
For example, in the following data model Customer object contains both a Person fieldobject and a collection of Page objects. The Person object also contains a Page fieldobject.
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public class Customer implements Serializable { private String name; private PersonCollection<String> contactphoneNumbers; // search nested object private Collection<Person> contacts; private Page[] myHomePages; ...... } public class Person implements Serializable { private String name; private String email; private int revenue; private String address; private String[] phoneNumbers; private Page homepage; ....... } public class Page implements Serializable { private int id; // search integer in int format private String title; private String content; ...... } |
The following example below demonstrates how to index the nested fields: contactcontacts.name, contactcontacts.email, contactcontacts.address, contactcontacts.homepage.title.
Note: each segment is a field name, not a field type, because Customer class could have 2 Person fields: Person contact more than one field of type Person; e.g. Person contacts and Person deliveryman. Use The field name is used to identify the parent field.
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// Get LuceneService LuceneService luceneService = LuceneServiceProvider.get(cache); // Create Index on fields, some are fields in nested objects: luceneService.createIndexFactory().setLuceneSerializer(new FlatFormatSeralizerFlatFormatSerializer()) /* an out-of-box LuceneSerializer implementation */ .addField("name").addField("contactcontacts.name").addField("contactcontacts.email").addField("contactcontacts.address").addField("contactcontacts.homepage.title") .create("customerIndex", "Customer"); // Now to create region Region CustomerRegion = ((Cache)cache).createRegionFactory(shortcut).create("Customer"); |
gfsh command line:
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gfsh create lucene index --name=customerIndex --region=/Customer --field=name,contacts.name,contacts.email,contacts.address,contacts.homepage.title --serializer=org.apache.geode.cache.lucene.FlatFormatSerializer |
The syntax for querying In query, the syntax for the nested field is the same as for a top level field, but to use qualified name as the with the additional qualifying parent field name, such as "contactcontacts.name:tzhou11*", otherwise, it's hard to distinguish . This distinguishes which "name" field , because in flatformat, all the fields (including nested fields) are in one document. There're 2 "name" field. We have to specify querying on which "name" field. when there can potentially be more than one 'name' field at different hierarchical levels in the object.
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LuceneQuery query = luceneService.createLuceneQueryFactory().create("customerIndex", "Customer", "contactcontacts.name:tzhou11*", "name"); PageableLuceneQueryResults<K,Object> results = query.findPages(); |
Out-Of-Box implementation
We 'll will provide an out-of-box implementation for the LuceneSerializer: FlatFormatSerializer.
It will still create one document for each parent object . But add adding the nest nested object as embeded embedded fields of the document. The field name will use the qualified name. . Collections will be flattened and treated as tokens in the single field.
For example, the FlatFormatSerializer will convert a Customer object into a document as
(name:John11),(contactcontacts.name:tzhou11), (contactcontacts.email:tzhou11@gmail.com), (contactcontacts.address:15220 Wall St), (contactcontacts.homepage.id:11), (contactcontacts.homepage.title: Mr. tzhou11), (contactcontacts.homepage.content: xxx)
Risks and Mitigations
With this solution, collections (lists and maps) will be treated as a single flattened field, with the risk that queries into a collection may produce the wrong results. For example, a person entry with 2 address fields, one containing "main street" and the other containing zipcode "90210", a query such as:
person.address.zip=90210 and person.address.street=main
would incorrectly return this person entry. Because Apache Lucene does not define a standard approach for this, we are providing the LuceneSerializer interface to allow a user to write code to convert their objects to separate Lucene documents and to use Lucene ParentBlockJoinQuery to produce the desired results. For example, using the above query, the user could write the following code to produce the desired results:
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final StandardQueryParser queryParser = new StandardQueryParser(); Query addressQuery = queryParser.parse("zip:90210 AND street:main", ""); BitSetProducer parentDocFilter = new QueryBitSetProducer(new TermQuery(new Term("parent", "true"))); final ToParentBlockJoinQuery addressPart = new ToParentBlockJoinQuery(addressQuery, parentDocFilter, ScoreMode.Total); TopDocs people = searcher.search(addressPart, 10); |