Thanks, will investigate your method.
Is there a typo in the javadoc for Term.compareTo(Term other)?
>From javadoc:
Compares two terms, returning an integer which is less than zero iff
this term belongs after the argument, equal zero iff this term is
equal to the argument, and greater than zero iff this term belongs
after the argument.
Shouldn't it be:
Compares two terms, returning an integer which is less than zero if
this term belongs before the argument, equal zero if this term is
equal to the argument, and greater than zero if this term belongs
after the argument
Thanks,
Ben
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:34:07 -0600, Chris Lamprecht
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's one way to do it - do a query, get a list of document IDs, and
> then delete that list of doc IDs.
>
> The method I mentioned in my previous message is different - you're
> getting a list of all Terms that are in the index. There will be 1
> term for each date (possibly down to the millisecond), which could
> point to 1 or more documents (maybe 0 or more -- I'm not sure). But
> using this method, you don't need to know the document IDs; you only
> need to know all of the terms you want to delete.
>
> Try something like this code -- (double-check to make sure it's ok to
> delete while enumerating over the Terms):
>
> Term first = new Term("foo", "start");
> Term last = new Term("foo", "end");
> TermEnum terms = reader.terms(first);
> while (terms.next() && terms.term().compareTo(last) <= 0) {
> reader.delete(terms.term());
> }
> reader.close();
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:19:46 +1000, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OK, so I have to query for a list of old documents (from a given date)
> > and delete each document individually?
> >
> > Can I use DateFilter.Before() with Term?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:13:48 -0600, Chris Lamprecht
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Ben,
> > >
> > > If you know the exact terms you want to delete, you can do it without
> > > querying:
> > >
> > > IndexReader reader = IndexReader.open(indexDir);
> > > Term deleteTerm = new Term("yyyymmdd", yyyymmdd);
> > > reader.delete(deleteTerm);
> > >
> > > If you are using a lucene date field, I think you'll have to enumerate
> > > through all the dates that you want to delete. You can use
> > > reader.terms(Term) to get an enumeration of terms.
> > >
> > > -chris
> > >
> > > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:58:44 +1000, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > BTW is it possible to do what I am trying to achieve without querying
> > > > the database or the index?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Ben
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:38:52 +1000, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > I need to delete a number of documents that are older than a
> > > > > particular time from a Lucene index. What is the best way to do this?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Ben
> > > > >
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