It's also possible to create your own code that uses FieldsReader and
FieldsWriter (both in org.apache.lucene.index) directly to create new
fdx/fdt files, with the date fixed on each document. You'd have to
enumerate over all segments in your index, create a FieldsReader
instance on each, create a FieldsWriter writing to a new segment name,
iterate through the docs fixing your date, calling
FieldsWriter.writeField per field then flushDocument to finish the
document.
I think that should work, but I've never tried it!
Your code would have to be in org.apache.lucene.index since these
classes are package private.
Mike
Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
Robert Stewart wrote:
Given an existing index, is there any way to update the value of a
particular field across all documents, without deleting/re-indexing
documents? For instance, if I have a date field, and I need to
offset all dates based on change to stored time zone (subtract 12
hours from each value). The sort order of field values would not
change, and the postings should not need to change, only values of
fields. I do not believe there is any API to do it, but is there
some lower level way to do it (modifying files manually)? I only ask
because I have a large index and I don't want to re-index all
documents.
Perhaps you could do this using FilterIndexReader implementation,
i.e. wrap your original index within this filter and then invoke
IndexWriter.addIndexes(IndexReader[]). If you override
FilterIndexReader.document(int, FieldSelector), which retrieves the
stored fields of a document, then you can change the values of
stored fields only, just before they are added to the new index.
Note that this works ONLY for non-indexed fields that are stored
(i.e. Store.YES, Index.NO) - if a field is both stored and indexed
then you need to modify the postings too, which requires overriding
other methods.
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