Thanks, StoredField seems still down to the per-document level, which means for every document they will contains this search field.
What I really would like is a global level storage to hold this single value. Maybe this is impossible. Sincerely, --Xiaolong On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:13 AM, Michael McCandless < luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > Lucene won't merge foreign files for you, and in general it's > dangerous to put such files into Lucene's index directory because if > they look like codec files Lucene may delete them. > > Can you just add a StoredField to each document to hold your information? > > Mike McCandless > > http://blog.mikemccandless.com > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Xiaolong Zheng > <zhengxiaol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to adding some meta data into the search data base. Instead > of > > adding a new search filed or adding a phony document, I am looking at the > > method org.apache.lucene.store.Directory#createOutpu, which is create > new > > file in the search directory. > > > > > > I am wondering does indexwriter can also merge this non-index file while > it > > merging multiple search index? > > > > And if I am stepping back a little bit, what's is the best way to add > meta > > data into the search database. > > > > For example, I would like to add a indicator which is showing the > different > > kind of stemmer is being used while it created. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > --Xiaolong >
