Lucene Analyzers for Sitecore – how the tokenized content looks like?

Everyone who have worked with Lucene indexes in Sitecore probably asked one day  him self – “how my content looks after tokenization process?”.

The answer of course is different depending on the type of used analyzer. (About types of analyzers you can read here. I will not provide those information here because it is not in the scope of this post)

Few days ago one of my colleagues (Wojciech Urban – thanks for that!), found the very useful tool which provide us following information:

  1. how tokenized text looks like
  2. how get tokens which are equal to those inside Lucene index

< You can find this tool here >

How tokenized text looks like?

As you can see in the image you are able to insert any description and test the tokenization process results.

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You can also change types of analyzers – you can choose from the following list:

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With this tool, results of your queries would never surprise you again!

How to get tokens which are equal to those inside Lucene index?

If you need tokens – let say for do something with your search results you can do something like this:

// get the analyzer which you use
var analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(Version.LUCENE_30);
// prepare StringReader object with your text inside
StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(text);
// get the tokens stream
TokenStream tokenStream = analyzer.TokenStream("defaultFieldName", stringReader);
while (tokenStream.IncrementToken())
   ITermAttribute termAtt = tokenStream.AddAttribute<ITermAttribute>();
   var term = termAtt.Term;
   // ...
   // ... do something with your term
   // ...
}

 

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