About:

This is a simple javafx project about File explorer with search functionality of Apache Lucene

Prerequisite:

• JDK11
• JavaFX 11
• Add javafx module path in your project : --module-path C:\Users\<user>\Downloads\javafx-sdk-11\lib --add-modules=javafx.controls
• Guide
  Note: module-path is the path to your downloaded JavaFX

Upcoming work:

• Implement Lucene index & search functions
• Enhance UI
• Open file
• Create / Remove / Rename folders
• Apply multithreading or async task for lucene indexing

Program Flow:

1. When first started, user is prompted to choose where to store index files for lucene to run
2. After selected the directory, that directory will be the base path of the application. Lucene starts indexing the base path.
3. After Lucene done indexing you can type some content then click the search button
4. Results will show file name and file location

References:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16176701/switch-between-panes-in-javafx
• https://www.baeldung.com/lucene-file-search
• https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_5_0/demo/overview-summary.html#overview.description

Run:

Open terminal and run the command accordingly (Suppose you are in the project directory)

• Windows: java --module-path .\library\javafx-sdk-11.0.2_windows\lib --add-modules=javafx.controls,javafx.fxml -Dfile.encoding=windows-1252 -jar .\out\artifacts\java_lucene_project_jar\java_lucene_project.jar
• Linux: java --module-path ./library/javafx-sdk-11.0.2_linux/lib --add-modules=javafx.controls,javafx.fxml -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar ./out/artifacts/java_lucene_project_jar/java_lucene_project.jar

Demo:

Choose Index directory:

File explorer view:

Results from lucene index: