Hello,
I'm having difficulty deleting documents from an index. I am using lucene
2.3.1
The program that I have created recursively searches a directory and indexes
the documents that it finds. The first thing I do is open the index for writing:
writer = new IndexWriter(indexDir,analyzer);
I then search the directory for certain types of files: text, pdf, doc, etc.
I have a basic algorithm that creates a unique id for each document and checks
the index to see if this file exists. If the file exists I then compare the
date the file was last update against the date it was last indexed. If the file
has been updated since it was last indexed I try to remove the file and
re-index. I can successfully retrieve existing documents from the index using
the file id but I cannot remove a file. This is the code I use to remove the
file.
private void removeDocument(IndexWriter writer, File file) throws
CorruptIndexException, IOException
{
IndexReader indexReader = IndexReader.open(writer.getDirectory());
indexReader.deleteDocuments(new
Term(IDHConstants.FILE_ID,FileNameUtil.getFieId(file)));
indexReader.close();
}
This code doesn't work. I have tried IndexWriter.updateDocument and it also
does not work. Is is because I have an IndexWriter open when I try to delete
the document?
All help welcome.
Regards,
Sean
