There's no way to append to an existing document, but you can get the same effect by deleting the old one and adding the new one (with the appended info). I was thinking that you could make a "view" of multiple postings in one thread by searching for all articles with the same threadid and sorting them by the serial number.
Pete ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Tremayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Lucene Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:46 PM Subject: RE: Adding to an existing document > Sorry I'm not quite sure what you mean - I do store threadid with every > document already - is there a way to append to a single thread's body field? > > cheers, > Toby > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter M Cipollone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2004 10:44 AM > To: Lucene Users List > Subject: Re: Adding to an existing document > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Toby Tremayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:28 PM > Subject: Adding to an existing document > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have an index which contains information from a forum database > > > > > > > > - one document per thread, containing all messages in a big text field. > If > > I wanted to add a new message string to and existing thread, is there some > > way I can append it to the document? > > In Lucene, the only way to modify a document is to delete it and replace it > with the new version. Given that you are working with discussion threads, > you might instead consider adding fields for thread ID and thread serial > number to each article. You could then append to threads, view entire > threads in order or delete threads as you wish using Lucene's APIs. > > Pete > > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > Toby > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > Life is poetry - write it in your own words > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > Toby Tremayne > > > > Code Poet and Zen Master of the Heavy Sleep > > > > Lonely Planet Publications > > > > +61 416 048 090 > > > > ICQ: 13107913 > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > This email, including attachments, is intended only for the addressee > > and may be confidential, privileged and subject to copyright. If you > > have received this email in error, please advise the sender and delete > > it. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not > > use, copy or disclose its content to anyone. You must not copy or > > communicate to others content that is confidential or subject to > > copyright, unless you have the consent of the content owner. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
