Hi Bernd
If all you want to do is search files by name, Lucene is not the tool
for you.
Lucene is a very powerful document search library.
You would have to code using Lucene to write your tool, it does not
plug-and-play.
It would be quicker and more efficient to write your own routine to list
the directory and run a regular expression on the file names.
Even if the directory listing is extremely large (which is a bad idea
anyway), or needs to be watched, it will still be easier to write your
own tool than use Lucene.
I hope that helps
Lee
On 12/10/2012 09:32, Bernd Kappler wrote:
Hi Danil,
>
> thank's for your quick response. Indeed: a library is what I am
> looking for - since I want to make use of it from within a server
> based java application. When I read the Lucene documentation, I
> became confident that Lucene *can* do this job. My question is more:
> is it the best library for this task? Since this uses only a subset
> of the functionality Lucene was designed for, Lucene might not be
> optimized for this. Do you know, if there are other java libraries
> available that are desingned and optimized for searching files by
> name? Or do you think that Lucene - while being optimized for
> indexing file contents - will do also a great job on this specific
> sub task?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
>
> Bernd
>
> Am 10/12/2012 09:13 AM, schrieb Danil ŢORIN:
>> Lucene is just a library.
>>
>> You will have to write the tool, and it's up to you what data you
>> choose to index and how to query the index you created.. It can be
>> filename, partial filename, prefix or even regexp on filename, it's
>> all up to you...
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Bernd Kappler
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am looking for a java based tool for creating an index of all
>>> files in a specific direcoty that allows me to find the files by
>>> name - similar to UNIXs locate tool.
>>>
>>> From the genereal documentation I have the impression that lucene
>>> could do this. But I also noticed that the primary usage scenario
>>> is indexing file contents - and it might just be an overkill to
>>> use lucene for this sub-task.
>>>
>>> Based on your experience: is lucene the right tool for this or
>>> would you recommend something different?
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards
>>>
>>>
>>> Bernd
>
>
>
