Mike, you are right. I used StringField, but id_to_delete has a typo and
thus a mismatch.
Still good to confirm the understanding is correct.
Thanks for your helps.
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Michael McCandless <
luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote:
> Your understanding is correct, and after reopen you should see the
> document deleted, so I'm not sure offhand why you aren't.
>
> BTW it's w.deleteDocuments not w.removeDocuments.
>
> And you don't need to commit in order to see changes in the reopened
> NRT reader (this is the whole point: commit is very costly, and is
> about "durability", i.e., ensuring your changes are written through to
> stable storage so they can survive things like sudden OS crash, power
> loss, etc.).
>
> Are you sure the id field is indexed, as a StringField (so it is not
> tokenized)? When you do a TermQuery(new Term("id", id_to_delete))
> beforehand, does it find the one document you want to delete?
>
> Can you boil the case down to a small testcase?
>
> Mike McCandless
>
> http://blog.mikemccandless.com
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Alice Wong <airwayw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am quite confused about the Lucene NRT feature. And there are not many
> > examples out there.
> >
> > My understanding is we can create an DirectoryReader from a IndexWriter.
> > Whenever IndexWriter changes the index, we can use DirectoryReader to
> > detect the changes and recreate DirectoryReader if necessary.
> >
> > The sequence is:
> >
> > IndexWriter w = ...;
> > DirectoryReader r = new IndexSearcher(DirectoryReader.open(w, true));
> > IndexSearcher s = new IndexSearcher(r);
> > // do some search
> > s.search(...);
> > // update index
> > w.removeDocuments(new Term("id",id_to_delete));
> > // assume commit() is optional, we probably can skip the next statement
> > w.commit();
> > // reopen index if necessary
> > r = DirectoryReader.openIfChanged((DirectoryReader) s.getIndexReader());
> > if (r != null) {
> > s.getIndexReader().close();
> > s = new IndexSearcher(r);
> > }
> > // now it supposed to see the updates
> > s.search(...);
> >
> > However, I found s still can find id_to_delete in the last step. Am I
> > missing something here?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
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