You could do it asynchronously. That is, separate off the actually lucene search into a different thread which does the actual search, then the calling thread simply waits for a maximum time for the search thread to complete, then queries the status of the search thread to get the results obtained to that point. You can then kill the search thread, or let it run in the background.
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Armbrust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 8 July 2005 12:06 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Search Timeout - abort a search Has anyone ever written code to make it possible to return from a search, after a given amount of time, returning the results that have been collected so far (but not necessarily all of them)? The only thing that I can see to do through the public Lucene API's would be to do the search using a HitCollector - and just stop recording the hits after X amount of time has passed - but this would only partially solve the problem... lucene would still continue to call the HitCollector collect method until it finished. Is there something else I'm missing? Thanks, Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
