Thank you Mike. This could be documented in Lucene's Directory and stream classes for others benefit too.
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Michael McCandless < luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > Multiple threads are free to interact with Directory. > > But it will be only one thread at a time interacting with a single > instance of IndexInput and IndexOutput. > > Mike McCandless > > http://blog.mikemccandless.com > > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Dhruv <dhru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am trying to implement an in-memory version of the Directory, > IndexInput > > and IndexOutput classes, similar to RAMDirectory. > > > > Can someone please point out if there are any concurrency and thread > safety > > requirements from these classes? Do the users of these classes implement > > client side locking or use thread confinement? Are there any other OS > level > > file system guarantees which the Lucene's Directory implementations make > > use of and which I should ensure from my in-memory implementation? > > > > I am using Lucene 3.0.3 and I have looked at RAMDirectory's and > > RAMIndexInputStream and RAMIndexOutputStream code but it does not > > explicitly mention any concurrency requirements. > > > > Any help in this regard will be appreciated. > > > > Thank you, > > -Dhruv > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
