Hi,
I confirm to you that delete( hits.id( i ) ) is ok.
Hits.id( int ) returns the docnum that you need.
MHF :)
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 12:11, Bruce Cota wrote:
> I need to delete all the documents from an index that
> satisfy a BooleanQuery.
>
> The only methods I can find (in IndexReader) for deleting
> a document are delete(Term) and delete(int).
>
> I tried searching on my Query using IndexSearcher.search(),
> iterating over each document in the returned Hits,
> and then iterating over Hits deleting each document like this:
>
> for (int i=0; i<hits.length(); +++i) {
> ireader.delete(hits.id(i));
> }
>
> Hoping here that the value returned by
> Hits.id(int) is the "docnum" expected in
> IndexReader.delete(int)
>
> But the call to delete throws an IOException.
>
> So, is there any way I can delete all the documents from
> an Index that satisfy a general Query?
>
> Thank you for any advice.
>
> Bruce Cota,
> Unicon, Inc.
>
>
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