Re: getCurrentVersion question

2006-09-12 Thread Erick Erickson
Just add another document (I do something similar). The key is to remember that documents in the same index do NOT have to have the same fields. So, say for your "regular" documents, you have fields (f1, f2, f3, f4). For your meta-data document, you index fields (md1, md2, md3...). The value for o

Re: getCurrentVersion question

2006-09-12 Thread Mag Gam
Tom: great! Now do you do you add metadata? I am new to Lucene API + Java, but willing to learn. Got an example? TIA On 9/12/06, Tom Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as I know there isn't a way to do this. What we do is add a "metadata" document to each index that includes the creat

Re: getCurrentVersion question

2006-09-12 Thread Tom Emerson
As far as I know there isn't a way to do this. What we do is add a "metadata" document to each index that includes the creation date, the user name of the creating user, and various other tidbits. This gets updated on incremental updates to the index as well. Easily done and makes it easy to query

Re: getCurrentVersion question

2006-09-09 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
ir-ed the index dir manually 14 years ago). Otis - Original Message From: Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:13:12 PM Subject: getCurrentVersion question Hi All, I am trying to get the exact date when my index was c

getCurrentVersion question

2006-09-09 Thread Mag Gam
Hi All, I am trying to get the exact date when my index was created. I am assuming getCurrentVersion() is the right way of doing it. However, I am getting a result something like this: 1157817833085 According to the API reference, "Reads version number from segments files. The version number is