NAME

Plucene::Index::Writer - write an index.

SYNOPSIS

my $writer = Plucene::Index::Writer->new($path, $analyser, $create);

$writer->add_document($doc);
$writer->add_indexes(@dirs);

$writer->optimize; # called before close

my $doc_count = $writer->doc_count;

DESCRIPTION

This is the writer class.

If an index will not have more documents added for a while and optimal search performance is desired, then the optimize method should be called before the index is closed.

METHODS

new

my $writer = Plucene::Index::Writer->new($path, $analyser, $create);

This will create a new Plucene::Index::Writer object.

The third argument to the constructor determines whether a new index is created, or whether an existing index is opened for the addition of new documents.

doc_count

my $doc_count = $writer->doc_count;

add_document

$writer->add_document($doc);

Adds a document to the index. After the document has been added, a merge takes place if there are more than $Plucene::Index::Writer::mergefactor segments in the index. This defaults to 10, but can be set to whatever value is optimal for your application.

optimize

$writer->optimize;

Merges all segments together into a single segment, optimizing an index for search. This should be the last method called on an indexer, as it invalidates the writer object.

add_indexes

$writer->add_indexes(@dirs);

Merges all segments from an array of indexes into this index.

This may be used to parallelize batch indexing. A large document collection can be broken into sub-collections. Each sub-collection can be indexed in parallel, on a different thread, process or machine. The complete index can then be created by merging sub-collection indexes with this method.

After this completes, the index is optimized.