Extending Cuyahoga FullText Indexing (Lucene.NET)

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Introduction

Cuyahoga provides module developers with a simple to use wrapper classes for full text indexing with Lucene.NET.
Although wrapper classes are easy to use these classes are not generic in nature. I mean
we, as module developers, have to convert our custom content (be it static or dynamic)
to a SearchContent object so that wrapper classes can index that content. Another similar limitation is when we perform search on the indexed content we can only get collection of SearchResult objects. I also want to mention that we, as module developers, have no control over which fields will be stored/unstored, which fields will be used as keywords or which fields will not be indexed while wrapper objects build the full text index.

In this article I will try to show you how we can make Cuyahoga.Core fulltext indexing capabilities more generic by providing a seperate extension assembly.
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