That was the problem - the id was not tokenized. Thanks for your help.
Kalani Ruwanpathirana wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> Are you sure you made the id "tokenized" while indexing? I could overcome
> this issue by having a tokenized field, which was used for the deletion as
> below.
>
> document.add(new Field("id", id, Field.Store.YES,
> *Field.Index.TOKENIZED*));
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Michael McCandless <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> John Patterson wrote:
>>
>> I just discovered some strange behaviour with deleted documents. I do a
>>> search for documents with a certain query and delete one using
>>> IndexWriter.deleteDocuments(Term) using a key for the term. Then I
>>> repeat
>>> the search and the document is still there because I use a custom
>>> HitCollector which does not check IndexReader.isDeleted(int). That is
>>> all
>>> expected.
>>>
>>
>> Hmm -- once a document is deleted, your HitCollector won't ever see it.
>> During searching, isDeleted is called per document at a very low level.
>>
>> If your HitCollector is seeing it, it sounds like it wasn't really
>> deleted.
>> Are you sure you closed the IndexWriter and then reopened your searcher,
>> so
>> that the searcher will see the deletion?
>>
>> But when I try to show the deleted document by searching by key using
>> the
>>> same term it was deleted with, it is not found. So it seems that the
>>> term
>>> (id:MYKEY) is removed from the index.
>>>
>>
>> This is odd -- the document should either be deleted (entirely), or not.
>> You shouldn't get different behavior if you search for the doc one way
>> vs
>> another.
>>
>> So I was surprised that the term for the id was removed but not the
>> other
>>> terms for document.
>>>
>>
>> That make two of us!
>>
>> Mike
>>
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> University of Moratuwa
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