[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Updated: (HSEARCH-181) better management of file-based index directories

better management of file-based index directories ------------------------------------------------- Key: HSEARCH-181 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HSEARCH-181 Project: Hibernate Search Issue Type: Improvement Components: directory provider Reporter: Sanne Grinovero Priority: Minor Attachments: HSEARCH-181-preview.patch The main reason to improve this is that many people get confused about the index not being created if they are so nice to create the directory for H.Search; The index is not created and no proper warning is logged. There are some other minor improvements needed in FSDirectoryProvider, FSMasterDirectoryProvider initialization and other code about creation of the index directories; * code duplication about mkdirs() (move to DirectoryProviderHelper). * inconsistent exceptions (sometimes SearchException, sometimes HibernateException for the same problem). * Current code already contains some good TODO about checking if it's not a file. * Lucene's current versions are able to determine if the index already exists or if a new needs to be created, I would rely on it instead of trying to detect the current state; the flag currently used should be used to force creation. * some people on the forums declared sub-dirs in their Index annotation, it works but some checks are skipped (e.g. writability).