Did anyone ever post a packaged solution for simple field renaming? Since I
didn't see one, I offer (link below) a beanshell script 'fieldrename' which
uses the Lucene API to run through the segments, gather fieldnames, pass
then through a user-supplied regular-expression transformation, and rewrite
the .fnm file. For example,
fieldrename /path/to/index ^Abstract$ Summary
(renaming of a single field via exact match: Abstract -> Summary)
fieldrename /path/to/index Number Code
(change substring within every fieldname: ProductNumber ->
ProductCode, etc.)
It does save the original .fnm files as .fnm.bak just in case, but caveat
emptor: Used incorrectly it can destroy a good index in a flash, so always
use on a backup index.
It works under Lucene 2.2 but has not been tested with 2.3, and it needs a
few more lines of code to work with compound-file indexes (which I'd be
happy to add if someone were actually interested in using it).
FYI I used beanshell rather than Java not only for rapid prototyping, but
also because it allows access to a non-public method in the Lucene API.
Go wild,
J.J. Larrea
http://www.nabble.com/file/p15221929/fieldrename fieldrename
Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Dear Andrzej Bialecki
>>
>> Can we change the field name in *.fnm directly by hand?
>
> Yes, but you need to be consistent about it, i.e. change it the same way
> for every segment that the index consists of. Also, fnm files are binary
> files, so you need to know the format (unless you preserve the length of
> the name, e.g. "secret" -> "public", then you can do it with a binary
> editor).
>
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