Hi, I'm using the Lucene demo to create an index for 10 text files, just for testing. I use the demo to do searches on the created index, and all seems well. I want to perform the search via an applet, for reasons not relevant to the problem I'm having. I zip up the three files in the index so the applet can fetch the index from disk or across the network. I use the java.util.zip library to unpack the three files as byte arrays, which I use to create three files in the RAMDirectory. I have print statements in my code and RAMDirectory member functions to confirm that the three files are named correctly, and they contain same number of bytes as the three uncompressed files in my index on disk. I then perform searches against this RAMDirectory index, and it behaves just fine.
Now the problem. If I increase the number of files indexed to 20, files with random text in them, actually paragraphs from Moby Dick, no search results Whatsoever can be obtained from using the RAMDirectory as the index in my applet. I can perform queries accurately from the command line with the Lucene demo against the uncompressed index on disk, but the RAMDirectory index in my applet appears worthless, and the only variable that appears to have changed is the number of files indexed, in either case a small number. Is there some gotcha in my methodology which is to populate the RAMDirectory index in my applet with the three index files as byte arrays obtained via URL and URLConnection? Why does this methodology work perfectly with 10, or even up to 17 documents indexed, but fail with just one additional document? Has anyone used this method of populating the RAMDirectory index from already created index files? Again, the system works fine with a very small index, and fails predictably with just slightly larger ones, larger indexes which are still many orders of magnitude smaller than what my actual use case is. I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks, Mark Horan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
