I get around this by creating an id based term like: new Term(Constants.DEFAULT_ID_FIELD, id)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Bridges [mailto:sean.brid...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:09 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: delete by docid in lucene 4 > > Is it possible to delete by docId in lucene 4? I can delete by docid > in lucene 3 using IndexReader.deleteDocument(int docId), but that > method is gone in lucene 4, and IndexWriter only allows deleting by > Term or Query. > > This is our use case - In our system, each document is identified by > a unique serial id. If an error occurs, we may index the same message > multiple times. When an index grows large enough, we stop adding to > it, and optimize the index. During optimization, if we see multiple > docs with the same serialid, we delete all but the first, as all > documents with the same serialid are the same. > > Thanks, > > Sean > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
