Hi all!
I'm currently running a big lucene index and one of my main concerns is
the integrity of the data entered. A few things come to mind, like
enforcing that certain fields be non-blank, forcing certain formats etc...
All these validations are easy to do with lucene, since I can validate
the document before it is indexed or when it is retrieved.
The thing however that I have a hard time with, is field uniquness.
Lets say I have a field and I really want it to be unique. I can't seem
to find out how to do it during the indexation phase since everything
that is added to the index is not readable by an index reader until the
index is closed.
Add to that the fact that items can be deleted from the index during the
indexation and the only way I have to figure uniquness is to check every
unique field values using termEnums and checking for docFreq.
This has a major disadvantage that I cannot inform people who are using
the library of the unique conflit when it happens, only when the index
is closed.
Does anyone have an idea on how I could check an index that is in the
process of being indexed (things added, things deleted) for the uniquess
of a given field *at the time I index a document* ?
Daniel Shane
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