I'm new to Lucene, and I've been reading a lot of messages regarding deleting docs. But I think my problem is more basic. I can't delete docs from my index and (after the index is created the first time and the writer is closed) I can't add new documents to an existing index.
Sorry for the lengthy email, I'm trying to be thorough. Here are some code snippets: FIRST STEP, CREATE THE INDEX Analyzer ANALYZER = new StandardAnalyzer(); Instantiating the Writer: IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(indexFilename, ANALYZER, true); writer.setMaxFieldLength(1000000); Creation of Documents, a loop: Document doc = new Document(); ... doc.add(new Field(ID_FIELD, id, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NO)); writer.addDocument(doc); Close the Writer: writer.optimize(); writer.close(); Up to this point, the index is created fine. SECOND STEP, ADDING OR DELETING Deleting Docs: IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(indexFilename, ANALYZER, false); writer.deleteDocuments(new Term(ID_FIELD, id)); I also tried using IndexReader: reader = IndexReader.open(indexFilename); int i = reader.deleteDocuments(new Term(ID_FIELD, id)); //i returns 0 Both failed. I try to delete one id value that I know for sure it was added in the first step. I add fields the same way that I did before, except that I use the new IndexWriter (recreate = false) IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(indexFilename, ANALYZER, false); I then flush and close: writer.flush(); writer.close(); THIRD STEP: QUERYING I query the index from another field, but the docs added on the second step don't show and the ones deleted on the second step still return in the results. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks Andre
