Yes ref counts are tricky, though these are expert APIs.
I think changing close, incRef, decRef to return the RC would be good,
though that breaks back compat.
How about exposing getRefCount() instead?
Mike
Erick Erickson wrote:
Hmmmm, reference counting is always yucky. I looked
the IndexReader javadocs over and there isn't any help
there for managing refcounts. You can't find the current
refcount, close doesn't indicate the results, etc. Or I
missed, for the Nth time, perfectly obvious documentation.
What do people think about one or more of these options?
1> have IndexReader.close() return some indication
of what the resulting refcount is. I.e. "did the reader
*really* close.
2> have decRef do the same.
3> have incRef do the same (although this seems less useful).
It's really, really hard to insure your reference counting is
correct solely by code inspection <G>!
yeah, yeah, yeah, this probably belongs on the dev list.
I'll be happy to put it over there and/or raise a JIRA...
Best
Erick
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Michael McCandless <
luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote:
OK, phew! Thanks for bringing closure.
Mike
rolaren...@earthlink.net wrote:
I did just now double/triple-check: the IndexWriter is definitely
closed.
However (cough), I did have a bogus call to
IndexReader.incRef() ... once
I removed that, the call to IndexReader.close() actually worked
and then the
deletion did so too. Thanks; sorry to trouble you.
-Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com>
Sent: Mar 6, 2009 4:23 AM
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Cc: rolaren...@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: deletion of index-files fails
If truly the IndexWriter & all IndexReaders are closed, then they
should no longer be holding open files. Maybe triple check that
you've indeed closed everything.
It's remotely possible that some other process (virus checker,
source
control clients, etc) has the file open.
You could try Microsoft's (formerly sysinternals) "Process
Monitor" to
see which processes have the files open.
Mike
Ian Lea wrote:
What OS are you running? What version of lucene? Are you sure
that
you have privilege to delete the files that it is failing on? That
they are part of the index you are trying to remove? That
something
else doesn't have the files open?
It seems likely that you are on Windows and that something is
holding
on to the files. I believe that Windows won't let you delete open
files. You could try calling File.deleteOnExit() for the index
files.
--
Ian.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:19 AM, <rolaren...@earthlink.net> wrote:
So, I have a (small) Lucene index, all fine; I use it a bit, and
then (on app shutdown) want to delete its files and the
containing
directory (the index is intended as a temp object). At some
earlier
time this was working just fine, using java.io.File.delete(). Now
however, some of the files get deleted (segments*) whereas others
fail (no Exn is thrown, just java.io.File.delete() returns false:
_0.cfs, _0.cfx). I've tried closing the IndexReader (no
IndexWriter
exists at shutdown), but that makes no diff.
Any ideas?
thanks
Paul
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