Thanks for the response Otis, below is a link to the javadoc in the API:
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/demo/DeleteFiles.html ( Deletes documents from an index that do not contain a term) Here is a link to the actual sample implementation: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/trunk/src/demo/org/apache/lucene/demo/DeleteFiles.java In the file above you have code that looks like this: Term term = new Term("path", args[0]); int deleted = reader.deleteDocuments(term); So in effect it should delete documents that don't contain the "path" value correspoding to what's in args[0]. Except the API documentation suggests the opposite. In other words the above code should delete only documents containing "path" values equal to args[0] (this is obviously more intuitive). Here is the API doc for what the above code snippet should do: ( http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.html#deleteDocuments(org.apache.lucene.index.Term) ): Deletes all documents containing term. This is useful if one uses a document field to hold a unique ID string for the document. Then to delete such a document, one merely constructs a term with the appropriate field and the unique ID string as its text and passes it to this method. See deleteDocument(int)<http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.html#deleteDocument%28int%29>for information about when this deletion will become effective.
From observation in my app, it is deleting documents that don't have the
provided term, which means there's no easy way to delete a doc (other than iterating) even if you have a unique id. On 10/15/06, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The javadoc is right. :) Otis ----- Original Message ---- From: EDMOND KEMOKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 12:49:21 AM Subject: IndexReader.deleteDocuments Hi guys, I am a newbee so excuse me if this is a repost. From the javadoc it seems Reader.deleteDocuments deletes only documents that have the provided term, but the implementation examples that I have seen and from the behaviour of my own app, deleteDocuments(term) deletes documents that don't have the given term. Can someone clarify this for me? Thanks Edmond Kemokai. "talk trash and carry a small stick." PAUL KRUGMAN (NYT) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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