Right, and those methods (IndexReader.lastModified and IndexCommit.lastModified) aren't used at all. I guess what I meant to say originally was I had 'found no functional dependencies' on those methods on Directory.
Thanks for the data point. - Chas Michael McCandless-2 wrote: > > IndexReader.lastModified returns lastModified of the latest segments_N > file. Also, IndexCommit exposes a lastModified which is the > lastModified of the segments_N file for that commit point. > > Otherwise I don't think Lucene uses it elsewhere. > > Mike > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM, cemerick<cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote: >> >> I just thought I'd ping the list once more on this question. Any >> thoughts? >> If not, I'll leave well enough alone until something breaks... :-) >> >> Thanks much, >> >> - Chas >> >> >> cemerick wrote: >>> >>> I've built a Lucene Directory implementation for jdbm, an embedded Java >>> database. Part of the Directory API are two methods related to "file" >>> modification dates: touchFile and fileModified. My question is, what is >>> the purpose of these methods? I've searched the Lucene core source tree, >>> and found no usage of these methods at all. >>> >>> FWIW, my interest is the fact that I'd like to not bother tracking mod >>> dates, given that I'm using an embedded datastore, and such metadata >>> isn't >>> "free" as it is in a regular filesystem. My jdbm Directory impl seems >>> to >>> be working just fine (with touchFile a no-op and fileModified always >>> returning 0). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> - Chas >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Purpose-of-the-file-modification-date-methods-in-Directory--tp25136045p25192797.html >> Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Purpose-of-the-file-modification-date-methods-in-Directory--tp25136045p25197062.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
