that seems to work. thanks for that. it was a bit fiddly more than i
expected but got the index sorted.
found an issue with sorting as most fields cannot be sorted by; and
throwing a
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unknown sort value type!
at
org.apache.nutch.searcher.IndexSearcher.translateHits(IndexSearcher.java:159)
at
org.apache.nutch.searcher.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:98)
at
org.apache.nutch.searcher.LuceneSearchBean.search(LuceneSearchBean.java:84)
at org.apache.nutch.searcher.NutchBean.search(NutchBean.java:231)
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 17:34 +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> fa...@butterflycluster.net wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > i have an existing index - we have a custom field that needs to be added
> > or changed in every currently indexed document ;
> >
> > whats the best way to go about this without recreating the index again?
>
> There are ways to do it directly on the index, but this is complicated
> and involves hacking the low-level Lucene format. Alternatively, you
> could build a parallel index with just these fields, but synchronized
> internal docId-s, open both indexes with ParallelReader, and then create
> a new index using IndexWriter.addIndexes().
>
> I suggest recreating the index.
>
