Hi Digy, thanks for the response. I didn't realise that about the StandardAnalyzer. The new documents seemingly disappearing each time was of course a 'true' being passed to the create parameter on the index writer.
Thanks again, Tim 2008/7/12 Digy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Since you are indexing with StandardAnalyzer, all tokens of indexed fields > are stored in lowercase. > > if you create the term like > > Term t = new Term("folder", "inbox"); > > you will get results. > > > > Or alternatively, you can use QueryParser > > > > DIGY > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Haughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:53 PM > To: lucene-net-user@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Failing to index > > > > Noob question, I think I'm fundamentally failing to grok something here. > > Trying to write a small document management tool, but the indexing isn't > > playing ball. I'm reading the Manning Lucene book, and I'm not sure if > > something's being lost in translation. In the app, the class that > represents > > a document has 3 properties that we're interesting in, all strings: > > > > Content (full text content) > > DocumentID (Unique ID string) > > Folder (the ID of the folder it sits in) > > > > But I can't get it to work. Here's an example app showing my problem: > > > > static void Main(string[] args) > > { > > DoStuff(); > > } > > > > private static void DoStuff() > > { > > Random r = new Random(); > > > > if (!Directory.Exists("C:\\MyLuceneTest")) > > { > > Console.WriteLine("Creating Lucene index directory."); > > } > > > > FileInfo indexFolder = new FileInfo("C:\\MyLuceneTest"); > > IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(indexFolder, new > > StandardAnalyzer(), true); > > writer.SetUseCompoundFile(true); > > > > Document doc = new Document(); > > > > doc.Add(new Field("content", r.Next().ToString(), > Field.Store.NO, > > Field.Index.TOKENIZED)); > > doc.Add(new Field("documentID", r.Next().ToString() , > > Lucene.Net.Documents.Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NO)); > > doc.Add(new Field("folder", "Inbox", > > Lucene.Net.Documents.Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED)); > > > > Document doc2 = new Document(); > > doc2.Add(new Field("content", r.Next().ToString(), > > Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED)); > > doc2.Add(new Field("documentID", r.Next().ToString(), > > Lucene.Net.Documents.Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NO)); > > doc2.Add(new Field("folder", "Inbox", > > Lucene.Net.Documents.Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED)); > > > > writer.AddDocument(doc); > > writer.AddDocument(doc2); > > writer.Optimize(); > > writer.Close(); > > > > Console.WriteLine("Added document to index...let's try and find > > it."); > > > > IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher("C:\\MyLuceneTest"); > > Term t = new Term("folder", "Inbox"); > > > > Console.WriteLine("Searching for a document with the 'folder' > > field set to 'Inbox'"); > > > > Query query = new TermQuery(t); > > Hits hits = searcher.Search(query); > > searcher.Close(); > > > > Console.WriteLine("Number of hits: " + > > hits.Length().ToString()); > > } > > > > This produces zero hits. > > > > If I change the folder field to UNTOKENIZED, I get 2 hits. But if I run the > > app again, I still get 2 hits. Shouldn't I be getting 4, then 6? > > Fundamentally missing part of the puzzle. > > > > > > Tim > >