Nope, never used jNotify, so I don't have any code handy...
Good luck!
Erick
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Yakob <jacob...@opensuse-id.org> wrote:
> On 9/28/10, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Flushing an index to disk is just an IndexWriter.commit(), there's
> nothing
> > really special about that...
> >
> > About running your code continuously, you have several options:
> > 1> schedule a recurring job to do this. On *nix systems, this is a cron
> job,
> > on Windows systems there's a job scheduler.
> > 2> Just start it up in an infinite loop. That is, your main is just a
> > while(1){}.
> > you'll probably want to throttle it a bit, that is run, sleep for some
> > interval
> > and start again.
> > 3> You can get really fancy and try to put some filesystem hooks in that
> > notify you when anything changes in a directory, but I really wouldn't go
> > there.
> >
> > Note that you'll have to keep some kind of timestamp (probably in a
> separate
> > file or configuration somewhere) that you can compare against to figure
> out
> > whether you've already indexed the current version of the file.
> >
> > The other thing you'll have to worry about is deletions. That is, how do
> you
> > *remove* a file from your index if it has been deleted on disk? You may
> have
> > to ask your index for all the file paths.
> >
> > You want to think about storing the file path NOT analyzed (perhaps with
> > keywordtokenizer). That way you'll be able to know which files to remove
> > if they are no longer in your directory. As well as which files to update
> > when they've changed.
> >
> > HTH
> > Erick
>
>
> I think I'll go with the third option, I had found a class that can do
> monitoring of certain directory, it's called Jnotify. I am planning of
> inserting this class in my code above. can you tell me how to do that?
> or maybe you can forward me to any link tutorials that explain how to
> include Jnotify in a certain lucene source code. I had search about
> Jnotify on google but the tutorials of Jnotify is still a few I guess.
>
> thanks though.
>
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