Chapter 17. Searching and Filtering
Searching is an important part of any data-driven application. Often you will begin writing an application with no search support. At some point, you will realize that users expect it, and implement something that iterates over all of the objects in a document and compares. Finally, you will discover that this is too slow on large documents and implement proper indexing.
With 10.3, Apple introduced the Search Kit framework. This framework is designed to make it easy for you to create indexes and integrate them into your search. If you have used Apache Lucene on other platforms, you will be familiar with most of the concepts behind Search Kit.
The main use of Search Kit and Spotlight is to perform mappings from ...
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