How did you open the first IndexReader (is this an NRT reader or a "normal" (via IndexReader.open) reader?)?
Also, be careful with threads: I think your code isn't thread-safe because one thread can finish getIndexSearcher() but not yet incRef'd the reader, when another thread closes that reader. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Paul Taylor <paul_t...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > I build indexes from scratch every three hours in a seperate process, then > when they are built I replace the old indexes with these new ones in my > search server. > Then I tell the search to reload the indexes as follows: > > public void reloadIndex() throws CorruptIndexException, IOException { > > if (indexSearcher != null) { > IndexReader oldReader = indexSearcher.getIndexReader(); > IndexReader newReader = oldReader.reopen(); > if (oldReader != newReader) { > Similarity similarity = indexSearcher.getSimilarity(); > indexSearcher = new IndexSearcher(newReader); > indexSearcher.setSimilarity(similarity); > this.setLastServerUpdatedDate(); > oldReader.close(); > } > } > } > > > What I'm finding is that new searches are finding new records added BUT > still find records that have been deleted and no longer exist in the index. > This is in one query, thus must mean I'm getting NEW AND OLD results for my > new index reader rather than still using the old one, so am I > misunderstanding what reopen() does, or it not working correctly ? > > thanks Paul > > (This code is only other plaae where reader is accessed: > > public Results searchLucene(String query, int offset, int limit) throws > IOException, ParseException { > > IndexSearcher searcher=null; > try { > searcher = getIndexSearcher(); > searcher.getIndexReader().incRef(); > TopDocs topdocs = searcher.search(parseQuery(query), offset + > limit); > searchCount.incrementAndGet(); > return processResults(searcher, topdocs, offset); > } > finally { > searcher.getIndexReader().decRef(); > } > } > ) > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
