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Srikar Doddi
Srikar Doddi

Reputation: 15609

How to do a full text search in Cocoa?

I need something like Lucene to do an optimized full text search in Cocoa. I am working on an Iphone app to search through a database.

Anybody has any luck with other databases. Any help is appreciated.

So far, I can only find this.

http://github.com/tcurdt/lucenekit/tree/master

Upvotes: 3

Views: 768

Answers (2)

ConsultUtah
ConsultUtah

Reputation: 6829

According to your comment: "..I am not sure if I explained myself properly. I am looking to build an Iphone app that can do searches by passing the search phrases to a remote server..."

You could just use the Java (or .NET) version of Lucene server side and pass the search query to the server from the phone in objective c

Upvotes: 2

amattn
amattn

Reputation: 10065

The official Lucene is written based on Java, if I'm not mistaken, and I haven't played with the ObjC port you've mentioned. It's a Mac OS X project and a quick look shows some dependancies that may be difficult to port over to the iPhone.

Depending on the complexity of your searching needs I see a few possible paths for you:

  1. For simple searching: the built-in SQLite supports indexes. This will be fast.
  2. Wait for SDK 3.0 and CoreData.
  3. Try your luck porting the above project.

Upvotes: 1

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