In the immortal words of Erik H. ...it depends... The big issue is whether you have fields in your index that are NOT stored (i.e. Field.Store.NO). If this is the case, your documents will not be complete, and adding it to the fresh index will not include the un-stored data.
It's actually pretty common to store a field as ...Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.(UN_)TOKENIZED Field.Store.COMPRESSED should be OK.
From the Document API doc
"note that fields which are *not* stored<file:///C:/lucene-2.1.0/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/document/Fieldable.html#isStored%28%29>are *not* available in documents retrieved from the index, e.g. with Hits.doc(int)<file:///C:/lucene-2.1.0/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/search/Hits.html#doc%28int%29>, Searcher.doc(int)<file:///C:/lucene-2.1.0/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.html#doc%28int%29>or IndexReader.document(int)<file:///C:/lucene-2.1.0/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.html#document%28int%29> ." Otherwise, it would *probably* work, but I haven't tried it. At worst, you could create a new document and add the fields from the old document to it...... Best Erick On 4/3/07, jafarim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks, I need to extract a subset of an index so that I can move some documents to another isolated machine to be searched locally. I'm not sure whether the following scenario is correct: - extracting the documents from the index by using one of the doc(i) methods - adding the same Document objects to a fresh index. Am I right? --Jaf
