Hi all, Before posting this question I have read a couple of old threads on this list on ways to update an existing index. the conclusion was to recreate a new index. unfortunalty this may not be possible in my case (please correct me if I am wrong). let me first describe what I am having trouble with: I have an index that has all sort of field types (keyword,Unstored,Text,Unindexed), I need to update the value for a field that is Unindexed for all the documents in the index. (I can't recreate the index from scratch since the files I used to create the index are not available anymore). so my idea was to do somthing like the following:
1 - create IndexWriter/Indexreader/IndexSearcher for existing index 2 - getAllDocuments(Searcher) as Hits. 3 - for each Hits object Document origDoc = hits.doc( i ); origDoc.removeField( fieldToBeUpdated ); // this field is Unindexed origDoc.add( new Field( fieldToBeUpdated ,newValue,Field.Store.YES,Field.Index.NO ) ); reader.deleteDocument( hits.id( i ) ); writer.addDocument( origDoc ); 4 - close Reader/Writer/Searcher 5 - optimize index. is this the right approach?. what will happen to the fields in the index that are Unstored in the new index? am I going to lose any data?. Thank you very much for all your help. Omar. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]