> Hi folks.
>
> I'm new to Lucene so this may be an obvious questions, but I am having
> problems with Lucene 1.3-rc2. I've got a bit of code which looks something
> like this....
>
> public static void getSearchResults(String searchString, String indexDir)
> {
> try
> {
> Searcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(indexDir);
> .....
> etc...
> .....
> }
> catch (Exception ex)
> {
> }
> }
>
> I'm calling it to from a web application (servlet) running in tomcat in
> conjunction with struts and velocity. If I use the Lucene 1.2 binary
> release, it all works fine and I get the search results ok. However, when
> I replace the 1.2 jar file with the 1.3-rc2 jat file, (leaving all of my
> code exactly the same) it stops working, and I get a path not found
> exception being thrown.
>
> I've narrowed it down to the IndexReader.open(final Directory directory)
> method. Even if I pass a valid Directory object into this (created by
> FSDirectory), it just seems to throw the exception, (even though I know
> the directory object is not null etc). The bizarre thing is that this
> problem only seems to occur when I run it from the web application. If I
> invoke the same code from the command line, it works ok, (even though I'm
> using the same string for the index dir).
>
> Anyone got any ideas? (I want to use 1.3 because I want to exploit some of
> the newer features). Does running from within a web application do
> something strange with the paths, even though the strings I'm using are
> fully qualified?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Iain Young
> http://www.microfocus.com
>
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