On Dec 30, 2009, at 5:08 PM, tsuraan wrote: > Suppose I have a (useful) document stored in a Lucene index, and I > have a variant that I'd also like to be able to search. This variant > has the exact same data as the original document, but with some extra > fields. I'd like to be able to use an IndexReader to get the document > that I stored, use the document's add method to put my extra fields > in, and then add that document to the index using an IndexWriter. > This doesn't seem to work, in general. Non-stored fields of the > original document are not in the variant document. This makes sense > from an OO point of view (how would that document object possibly have > the non-stored data of the original doc), but is there some > lower-level way to do what I want to do? > > It's somewhat expensive to completely re-create my document, as it > relies on data parsed from (often large) pdf and MS Office files. I'd > like to be able to use the already-stored terms that are in my index > and associated with my existing document. Can I iterate through the > terms of my index and add references to my newly-added document? Is > there any utility to make this work nicely
I don't think there is a way to do this without recreating docs just yet although I believe there is some work being done on modifiable docs. Can you store all your fields? That is probably cheaper than reparsing. -Grant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
