Hi, An update on each word/character typed is not a practical thing to do for lucene (as per the current scheme of things). Though there's something called the Real Time search, which lets you search on an updated document, though the assumption is that the frequency is not as that of a word type. -- Anshum Gupta http://ai-cafe.blogspot.com
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:36 AM, software visualization < softwarevisualizat...@gmail.com> wrote: > This has probably been asked before but I couldn't find it, so... > > Is it possible / advisable / practical to use Lucene as the basis of a > live > document search capability? By "live document" I mean a largish document > such as a word processor might be able to handle which is being edited > currently. Examples would be Word documents of some size that are begin > written, really huge Java files, etc. > > The user is sitting there typing away and of course everything is changing > in real time. This seems to be orthogonal to the idea of a Lucene index > which is costly to construct and costly to update. > > TIA >
