Getting back a Date object?

["Wilton, Reece" <Re...@dig.com>]

Hi,

There is a Field.Keyword factory method that takes a date.  I'm using it
like this:

  searchDoc.add(Field.Keyword("TIMESTAMP", new Date()));

The JavaDoc for this method says it is stored in the index, for return
with hits.  So how do I get it out of the Hits?

The only thing I can see is getting a String or a Field from Hits.  And
Field only allows you to get a String from it.  Should I be using the
readerValue() for this?

Any help is appreciated!
Reece

-----Original Message-----
From: Francesco Bellomi [mailto:fbellomi@libero.it] 
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 1:50 PM
To: Lucene Users List
Subject: Directory implementation using NIO


Hi,

I developed a Directory implementation that accesses an index stored on
the filesystem using memory-mapped files (as provided by the NIO API,
introduced in Java 1.4).

You can download the complied jar and the source from here:
www.fran.it/lucene-NIO.zip

Basically there are 3 new classes: NIODirectory, NIOInputStream and
NIOOutputStream. They are heavily based on FSDirectory, FSInputStream
and FSOutputStream.

NIOInputStram provides memory-mapped access to files. It does not rely
on Lucene InputStream's caching feature, since direct access to the
memory-mapped file should be faster. Also, cloned stream with
independent positions are implemented using NIO buffer duplication (a
buffer duplicate holds the same content but has its own position), and
so the implementation logic is much simpler than FSInputStream's.

Some methods of Directory have been overridden to replace the caching
feature. Some of then were final in Directory, so I have used a slightly
modified version of Directory.java (BTW, I wonder why so many methods in
Lucene are made final...)

These classes only works with the recently released Java 1.4.2. This is
due to the fact that buffers connected with memory-mapped files could
not be programmatically unmapped in previous releases, (they were
unmapped only through finalization) and actively mapped files cannot be
deleted. These issue are partially resolved with 1.4.2.

NIOOutputStream is the same as FSOutputStream; I don't know any way to
take advantege of NIO for writing indexes (memory mapped buffers have a
static size, so they are not useful if your file is growing).

I don't have a benchmarking suite for Lucene, so I can't accurately
evaluate the speed of this implementation. I tested it on a small
application I am developing and it seems to work well, but I think my
test are not significative. Of course only the searching feature is
expected to be faster, since the index writing is unchanged.

Francesco

-
Francesco Bellomi
"Use truth to show illusion,
and illusion to show truth."



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Re: Getting back a Date object?

[Victor Hadianto <vi...@nuix.com.au>]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 04:38 am, Wilton, Reece wrote:
> There is a Field.Keyword factory method that takes a date.  I'm using it
> like this:
>
>   searchDoc.add(Field.Keyword("TIMESTAMP", new Date()));

> The only thing I can see is getting a String or a Field from Hits.  And
> Field only allows you to get a String from it.  Should I be using the
> readerValue() for this?

Convert the string that you get using DateString.stringToDate(String s) 
method. 

HTH,
victor



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