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Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:11:23 +0200
From: Maik Schreiber <blizzy-keyword-lucene_dev.6564c8@blizzy.de>
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Subject: Contribution: LuceneIndexAccessor
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Hi,

My company would like to make the following contribution to Lucene (in
sandbox?) licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Background: While doing project work on a web-based search engine we have
developed a component called LuceneIndexAccessor. This component provides a
high-level index access interface, that is, it synchronizes read/write
access to a Lucene index. You no longer need to worry about concurrently
opening readers/writers/searchers. The component also does caching where
applicable. Further, it makes sure that all Searchers get closed whenever
you have added a document to the index.


You can download the source here:

http://www.blizzy.de/lucene/lucene-indexaccess-0.1.0.zip


Using LuceneIndexAccessor is incredibly simple:


Directory directory = ...
Analyzer analyzer = ...

// somewhere near program start
IIndexAccessProvider accessProvider =
	new IndexAccessProvider(directory, analyzer);
ILuceneIndexAccessor accessor = new LuceneIndexAccessor(accessProvider);
accessor.open();


IndexWriter writer = null;
try {
	writer = accessor.getWriter();

	// use writer...
} catch (IOException e) {
	// ...
} finally {
	accessor.release(write);
}


// somewhere near program exit
accessor.close();


(Opening IndexReaders or Searchers follows the same use pattern.)


Right now, the source compiles against a CVS version of Lucene. Also, it
uses Log4J for logging. We're happy with changing that if need arises.

-- 
Maik Schreiber   *   http://www.blizzy.de

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