David Fraser
davidf at sjsoft.com
Wed Aug 17 11:51:17 EDT 2005
Jon-Pierre Gentil wrote: >On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:09 am, Manjeet Chaudhary wrote: > > > >>I want to pull Java Lucene into Python: PyLucene.I have an >>"ArabicAnalyzer.jar" file in Java and i want to use in Python.I have >>gone through a documentation of how to convert Java into Python using >>"gcj" and "swig" , but i am confused about how to go about. >> >> > >This would be the perfect reason to have mod_jython. :-) > >But otherwise, the only way I can think of to integrate it without >seriously hacking something up is to create a XMLRPC wrapper service in >Java and have it running on the machine with the web server, and do >XMLRPC calls to it. > > Have a look at how PyLucene works: it's Java code compiled with gcj and wrapped with Swig, so there's no jython or Java interpreter. Andi Vadja's answer on pylucene-dev (see below) is basically that the same could be done to other Java code... Andi Vajda wrote: > It shouldn't be too hard to create a custom build with the arabic > analyzer. > Take a look at PyLucene's Makefile around line 426. If this analyzer > is similar in structure to the other ones, you can add its files to > the $(ANALYZERS_JAR) file and follow the same pattern in PyLucene.i as > for the other analyzer APIs declared in there. > If this is too complicated and the LICENSE for your analyzer allows > it, ie, it is compatible with PyLucene's LICENSE (see LICENSE file) I > can include it in the next release of PyLucene which should happen > shortly after Java Lucene 1.9 is released. > > Concerning mod_python use, see the pylucene-dev list archives > regarding threading issues. > > Andi..
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