Going the DB way may be safer. But you could use IndexReader's maxDoc() method to use the other approach: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.html#maxDoc()
Otis --- Riccardo Daviddi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > it's possible to set an unique id (as keyword field) to a doc by > looking in the index? I mean, it's possible to look in the index and > know what is the last id (which is a keyword field) and then decide > for the new id to associate to the new indexed doc? Or it's better > store the doc in a db and get so a unique id (the key of the row in > the db) and use it as the unique id for the keyword field in the > index? > > -- > Riccardo Daviddi > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
