Integrate IndexReader with IndexWriter ---------------------------------------
Key: LUCENE-1516 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1516 Project: Lucene - Java Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 2.4 Reporter: Jason Rutherglen Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.9 The current problem is an IndexReader and IndexWriter cannot be open at the same time and perform updates as they both require a write lock to the index. While methods such as IW.deleteDocuments enables deleting from IW, methods such as IR.deleteDocument(int doc) and norms updating are not available from IW. This limits the capabilities of performing updates to the index dynamically or in realtime without closing the IW and opening an IR, deleting or updating norms, flushing, then opening the IW again, a process which can be detrimental to realtime updates. This patch will expose an IndexWriter.getReader method that returns the currently flushed state of the index as a class that implements IndexReader. The new IR implementation will differ from existing IR implementations such as MultiSegmentReader in that flushing will synchronize updates with IW in part by sharing the write lock. All methods of IR will be usable including reopen and clone. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org