[hibernate-dev] [Search] Sharding and access to (subsets) of index readers and Lucene directories in HS 4.0

[Elmer van Chastelet]

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 13:26 +0200, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
> On 25 août 2011, at 12:09, Elmer van Chastelet wrote:
> 
> > As is also mentioned in [1], there is currently no direct access to the
> > index managers, so getting a FSDirectory is currently not possible in
> > 4.0alpha1. I think HS should support this to offer the flexibility to
> > work on the Lucene indexes directly (for example, to build an auto
> > completion/spell check index from an existing index)
> 
> Do you have other uses cases. We always had in mind to support dictionary based use case in HSearch, so I don't see this as a motivating enough use case..
Sorry, my mistake. Access to FSDirectory is only needed for indexes
created externally, not used by Hibernate Search. I don't have valid use
cases for that anymore :)