def _open_index(self):
"""
Open the index. Lucene is lame about performance with potential
multiple writers, so qwbasically treat open/close index as a stack
"""
if self._index is None:
# Try to open the index for modifing. If the index doesn't exist,
# this will fail, and we'll try again, this time letting PyLucene
# create the directory.
analyzer = PorterStemmerAnalyzer()
try:
self._index = PyLucene.IndexModifier(
settings.SEARCH_INDEX_PATH, analyzer, False)
except PyLucene.JavaError, e:
if e.getJavaException().getClass().getName(
) == "java.io.IOException":
self._index = PyLucene.IndexModifier(
settings.SEARCH_INDEX_PATH, analyzer, True)
else:
raise
self._index.setMaxFieldLength(
65526) # 64k ought to be enough for anyone...
