Hi, I know it is too late to answer a question (sorry Chris) but I thought
it could be useful to share things (even late).
I was just going through the mails and I found that we've done it a few
months back.
*Objective: To add a new field to existing index without re-writing the
whole index.*
We
Unfortunately, updateDocument replaces the *entire* previous document
with the new one.
The ability to update a single indexed field (either replace that
field entirely, or, change only certain token occurrences within it),
while leaving all other indexed fields in the document unaffected, has
bee
Thanks Ian, its as I feared!
I shall have to reindex (and upgrade!).
Cheers,
- Chris
-Original Message-
From: Ian Lea
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:00
Subject: Re: Rewriting an index without losing 'hidden' data
Unfortunately you jus
Unfortunately you just can't do this. Might be possible if all fields
were stored but evidently they are not in your index. For unstored
fields, the Document object will not contain the data that was passed
in when the doc was originally added.
I believe there might be a way of recreating some o
Hi,
I recently discovered that I need to add a single field to every document in an
existing (very large) index. Reindexing from scratch is not an option I want
to consider right now, so I wrote a utility to add the field by rewriting the
index - but this seemed to lose some of the fields (in
