I've had success with deletion by running IndexReader.delete(int), then
getting an IndexWriter and optimizing the directory. I don't know if
that's "the right way" to do it or not.
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I've been merrily cooking along, thinking I was replacing documents when
> I haven't. My logic is to go through a batch of documents, get a field
> called "reference" which is unique build a term from it and delete it
> via the reader.delete() method. Then I close the reader and open a
> writer and reprocess the batch indexing all.
>
> Here is the delete and associated code:
>
> reader = IndexReader.open(database);
>
> Term t = new Term("reference",reference);
> try {
> reader.delete(t);
> } catch (Exception e) {
> System.out.println("Delete exception;"+e);
> }
>
> except it isn't working. I tried to do a commt and a doCommit, but
> those are both protected. I do a reader.close() after processing the
> batch the first time.
>
> What am I missing? I don't get an exception. Reference is definitely a
> valid field, 'cause I print out the value at search time and compare to
> the doc and they are identical.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
>
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