Avi Drissman wrote:
I've used Lucene for a long time, but only in the most basic way. I have a custom analyzer and a slightly hacked query parser, but in general it's the basic add document/remove document/query documents cycle.
In my system, I'm indexing a store of external documents, maintaining an index for full-text querying. However, I might be turned off when documents are added, and then when I'm restarted, I'm going to need to determine the timestamp of the last document added to the index so that I can pick up where I left off.
There are three approaches to doing this, two using Lucene. I don't know how I would do the two Lucene approaches, or even if they're possible.
1. Just keep a file in parallel with the index, reading and writing the timestamp of the last indexed document in it. I know how to do this, but I don't like the idea of keeping a separate file.
This is similar to the way I chose (I used a property file for this, and stored certain data within it, in the index directory). I didn't like the idea at first either, but later I thought - why not? It is the simplest way. As long as the file name is not used by Lucene, I thought it should be safe.
Claes
--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
