Enable Full Text Search in Apache CouchDB - lucene

Question

I have followed the blog entry here to enable full text search https://developer.ibm.com/dwblog/2015/text-search-apache-couchdb/#.Vly24SCrQbV
I have everything correctly set up, and have also tried with other peoples docker images.
How do you set up a search? What documents are needed.
I have created a database called cats with one document
{
"_id": "6f35d75b476517e2fc0b3eb12c000e72",
"_rev": "1-c9a6b4734c83287499e8bbd6d1339050",
"name": "tibbles"
}
And a design/view
{
"_id": "_design/cat_look",
"_rev": "1-aae457e6edf5e4a3f69357e5a2160fcc",
"views": {
"kitty_name": {
"map": "function (doc) {\n index(\"kittyName\", doc.name, {\"store\": true});\n}"
}
},
"language": "javascript"
}
If I go to http://localhost:15984/cats/_design/cat_look/_search/kitty_name?q="*"
I get
{"error":"not_found","reason":"kitty_name not found."}
Thanks for any help on this, I am very lost.

Answer 1

A Lucene search index is set up differently to how a Map Reduce view is done. In your code, it looks like you've tried to use a Map Reduce view. For Lucene, first you need to set up an index:
{
"_id": "_design/Cat_look",
"indexes": {
"kitty_name": {
"index": "function(doc){ ... }"
}
}
}
Consult Cloudant's docs on the subject: https://console.bluemix.net/docs/services/Cloudant/api/search.html#search

Answer 2

Thanks for your help, you are right I set up the Lucene search index incorrectly. Here is the code to get a simple example working for anyone else lost.
If you have docker setup
docker run -d -p 15984:15984 ncheaz/couchdb:search
to get couchdb search on local port 15984
The document to search
{
"_id": "6f35d75b476517e2fc0b3eb12c000e72",
"_rev": "1-c9a6b4734c83287499e8bbd6d1339050",
"name": "tibbles"
}
The Search Index.
Create a new document, not a new view.
{
"_id": "_design/cat_look",
"_rev": "2-23f6ab0606a603cbef04653d167585d4",
"views": {},
"language": "javascript",
"indexes": {
"kitty_name": {
"analyzer": "simple",
"index": "function (doc) {if (doc.name) {index(\"name\", doc.name, {\"store\":true}); }}"
}
}
}
The url to search for the cats name is
http://localhost:15984/cats/_design/cat_look/_search/kitty_name?q=name:tibbl*
note that kitty_name is the name of the _search and name is the index name.
I recommend anyone struggling to get this working to create a free trial account on IBM Cloudant as the documentation directly relates to their product and it is a lot easier to follow.