Lucene Tutorial on Lucene Indexing Operations
in this chapter, we'll discuss the four major operations of indexing. these operations are useful at various times and are used throughout of a software search application.
indexing operations
following is a list of commonly-used operations during indexing process.
| s.no. | operation & description |
|---|---|
| 1 |
add document
this operation is used in the initial stage of the indexing process to create the indexes on the newly available content. |
| 2 |
update document
this operation is used to update indexes to reflect the changes in the updated contents. it is similar to recreating the index. |
| 3 |
delete document
this operation is used to update indexes to exclude the documents which are not required to be indexed/searched. |
| 4 |
field options
field options specify a way or control the ways in which the contents of a field are to be made searchable. |