I think you should extend the Directory class to provide a direct access to the zip file in which the index is stored, and then use that implementation with IndexWriter and IndexSearcher.
---------------------------------------------------- Waleed Tayea -----Original Message----- From: Ahmed El-dawy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:06 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Accessing Lucene Index stored in a jar file I need to access it as it is in the zip file. IndexSearcher cannot be constructed using a zip file or a stream to a file. It can be constructed to either FSDirectory or RAMDirectory. Both are not useful in my case. On 2/19/06, gekkokid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > couldnt you use the java zip library > (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/zip/package-summary.h tml) > and compress and uncompress it separately? just an idea > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ahmed El-dawy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <java-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:38 PM > Subject: Accessing Lucene Index stored in a jar file > > > Hello, > Is there a way to access a Lucene Index which is stored inside a > .zip or .jar file? > This is important because my indexes are very large (> 200 M.B.) and I > need to compress them. I tried to store documents using > Store.COMPRESSED, but the compression ratio wasn't satisfying. > I need to add the index to a jar file and access it (for read-only) > without extracting the zip file. > > Thanks in advance > -- > regards, > Ahmed Saad > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- regards, Ahmed Saad --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
