On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Daniel Noll <dan...@nuix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 00:44, Michael McCandless
> <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote:
>> Stepping back, since presumably your app knows what it's storing in
>> the directory, can't you filter for files you know you've created?
>> What's the larger use case here?
>
> The exact use case where we were using list() is to determine whether
> the index had data in it, without having to open it and do a
> docCount() (well, there were also calls to it in the unit tests, but
> those were entirely replaceable with listAll()).
>
> This was previously a one-liner:
>
> boolean containsData = directory.list().length > 1
>
> Maybe there is another newer API which will return this to being a
> one-liner -- at the time it was written this seemed to be the best
> option.
>
> By the way, when I mean "there is no data in it", I mean the index
> exists but has 0 documents. Detecting that the index itself does not
> exist is somewhat simpler.
I see.
There's IndexReader.indexExists(), but it sounds like that's not what
you want because you want to check whether in fact it has > 0 docs in
it.
Otherwise, I think something like this (requires 2.9, since prior to
that SegmentInfos isn't public) should work:
SegmentInfos sis = new SegmentInfos();
try {
sis.read(dir);
} catch (IOException ioe) {
// presumably no index exists
}
int totDocCount = 0;
for(SegmentInfo info : sis) {
totDocCount += info.docCount;
}
It's not a one-liner, but it's fast to run since it just reads the
segments file. But remember that SegmentInfos has forward rights to
break back-compat ("subject to change suddenly in the next release")!
Mike
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