Hello, Lucene community! I am reaching out to you to seek help with one of the updated APIs.
I have a use case where I need to update the Lucene document's docValue fields in place, i.e., without creating a new document with every update. I believe softUpdateDocument should help me achieve this, but I'm a bit confused about the documentation, These are the questions I have: 1. Does the softUpdateDocument API create a new document with every new update? If so, how is it different from the updateDocument API? Is this the correct API for my use case, where I don't have to increase the segment size because of a huge influx of docValue updates? 2. The softUpdateDocument takes two arguments: a Document and varargs of type Field. If my Document consists of different types of fields (string, docValues, text), should I send in the same document with all the fields or create a new document with only the supporting docValue fields? I hope to hear from you soon. Thank you so much! -Abhishek
