I've now managed to add words into the spell checker index (i.e. not just the F_WORD field), unfortunately it is a dirty hack...which wouldn't have been necessasry if those private methods were made protected.
Next problem... Deleting words: 1) (a) create index (b) add word (c) delete word = SUCCESS 2) (a) create index (b) delete existing word = FAIL With both I'm using the same process, which is: IndexWriter iw = new IndexWriter(directory, iwc); Term term = new Term(SpellChecker.F_WORD, word); iw.deleteDocuments(term); iw.close(); spellChecker.setSpellIndex(directory); // required so changes are available Using Luke I can see that deleting new Term(SpellChecker.F_WORD, word) works fine in scenario 1, but in scenario 2 the document is shown as deleted and hasDeletions = 1 but the terms still remain. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Johnny Jenkins <jenkins.joh...@gmail.com> Date: 11 September 2013 14:24 Subject: SpellChecker adding and removing words To: java-user@lucene.apache.org I’m wanting to high jack SpellChecker class as a general spell checking and word suggestion tool. The idea of using this class was to avoid creating my own. At first it seems to fit the bill. However, once I’ve used indexDirectory() I cannot seem to easily add/remove words. I can re-instantiate the SpellChecker instance and do another indexDirectory() with the most recent dictionary, however this takes time and I want ZERO down time. Adding words: I’ve attempted to add documents through an IndexWriter and I can successfully add words into the F_WORD field. This allows me test a word against exist() with a successful outcome. However when attempting to get suggestions of a similar misspelled word it will fail to return the newly added word. This is because I/it never added the appropriate content into all the other index fields (gramN, endN, startN etc) which the suggest methods appear to rely on. I’ve debugged the creation of the dictionary and can see that there are some very useful private methods in the SpellChecker class (createDocument(), addGram()). It appears to lack word removal methods. Am I trying to use this for something it is not designed for? (I gather its roots are around ‘did you mean’?)
