Package org.apache.lucene.index

# Class IndexWriter

java.lang.Object
org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:
  `Closeable`, `AutoCloseable`, `MergePolicy.MergeContext`, `TwoPhaseCommit`, `Accountable`

public class IndexWriter extends Object implements Closeable, TwoPhaseCommit, Accountable, MergePolicy.MergeContext
An `IndexWriter` creates and maintains an index.

The `IndexWriterConfig.OpenMode` option on `IndexWriterConfig.setOpenMode(OpenMode)` determines whether a new index is created, or whether an existing index is opened. Note that you can open an index with `IndexWriterConfig.OpenMode.CREATE` even while readers are using the index. The old readers will continue to search the "point in time" snapshot they had opened, and won't see the newly created index until they re-open. If `IndexWriterConfig.OpenMode.CREATE_OR_APPEND` is used IndexWriter will create a new index if there is not already an index at the provided path and otherwise open the existing index.

In either case, documents are added with `addDocument` and removed with `deleteDocuments(Term...)` or `deleteDocuments(Query...)`. A document can be updated with `updateDocument` (which just deletes and then adds the entire document). When finished adding, deleting and updating documents, `close` should be called.

Each method that changes the index returns a `long` sequence number, which expresses the effective order in which each change was applied. `commit()` also returns a sequence number, describing which changes are in the commit point and which are not. Sequence numbers are transient (not saved into the index in any way) and only valid within a single `IndexWriter` instance.

These changes are buffered in memory and periodically flushed to the `Directory` (during the above method calls). A flush is triggered when there are enough added documents since the last flush. Flushing is triggered either by RAM usage of the documents (see `IndexWriterConfig.setRAMBufferSizeMB(double)`) or the number of added documents (see `IndexWriterConfig.setMaxBufferedDocs(int)`). The default is to flush when RAM usage hits `IndexWriterConfig.DEFAULT_RAM_BUFFER_SIZE_MB` MB. For best indexing speed you should flush by RAM usage with a large RAM buffer. In contrast to the other flush options `IndexWriterConfig.setRAMBufferSizeMB(double)` and `IndexWriterConfig.setMaxBufferedDocs(int)`, deleted terms won't trigger a segment flush. Note that flushing just moves the internal buffered state in IndexWriter into the index, but these changes are not visible to IndexReader until either `commit()` or `close()` is called. A flush may also trigger one or more segment merges which by default run with a background thread so as not to block the addDocument calls (see below for changing the `MergeScheduler`).

Opening an `IndexWriter` creates a lock file for the directory in use. Trying to open another `IndexWriter` on the same directory will lead to a `LockObtainFailedException`.

Expert: `IndexWriter` allows an optional `IndexDeletionPolicy` implementation to be specified. You can use this to control when prior commits are deleted from the index. The default policy is `KeepOnlyLastCommitDeletionPolicy` which removes all prior commits as soon as a new commit is done. Creating your own policy can allow you to explicitly keep previous "point in time" commits alive in the index for some time, either because this is useful for your application, or to give readers enough time to refresh to the new commit without having the old commit deleted out from under them. The latter is necessary when multiple computers take turns opening their own `IndexWriter` and `IndexReader`s against a single shared index mounted via remote filesystems like NFS which do not support "delete on last close" semantics. A single computer accessing an index via NFS is fine with the default deletion policy since NFS clients emulate "delete on last close" locally. That said, accessing an index via NFS will likely result in poor performance compared to a local IO device.

Expert: `IndexWriter` allows you to separately change the `MergePolicy` and the `MergeScheduler`. The `MergePolicy` is invoked whenever there are changes to the segments in the index. Its role is to select which merges to do, if any, and return a `MergePolicy.MergeSpecification` describing the merges. The default is `LogByteSizeMergePolicy`. Then, the `MergeScheduler` is invoked with the requested merges and it decides when and how to run the merges. The default is `ConcurrentMergeScheduler`.

NOTE: if you hit an Error, or disaster strikes during a checkpoint then IndexWriter will close itself. This is a defensive measure in case any internal state (buffered documents, deletions, reference counts) were corrupted. Any subsequent calls will throw an AlreadyClosedException.

NOTE: `IndexWriter` instances are completely thread safe, meaning multiple threads can call any of its methods, concurrently. If your application requires external synchronization, you should not synchronize on the `IndexWriter` instance as this may cause deadlock; use your own (non-Lucene) objects instead.

NOTE: If you call `Thread.interrupt()` on a thread that's within IndexWriter, IndexWriter will try to catch this (eg, if it's in a wait() or Thread.sleep()), and will then throw the unchecked exception `ThreadInterruptedException` and clear the interrupt status on the thread.

## Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`static final class`
`IndexWriter.DocStats`
DocStats for this index
`static interface`
`IndexWriter.IndexReaderWarmer`
If `DirectoryReader.open(IndexWriter)` has been called (ie, this writer is in near real-time mode), then after a merge completes, this class can be invoked to warm the reader on the newly merged segment, before the merge commits.

## Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type
Field
Description
`static final int`
`MAX_DOCS`
Hard limit on maximum number of documents that may be added to the index.
`static final int`
`MAX_POSITION`
Maximum value of the token position in an indexed field.
`static final int`
`MAX_STORED_STRING_LENGTH`
Maximum length string for a stored field.
`static final int`
`MAX_TERM_LENGTH`
Absolute hard maximum length for a term, in bytes once encoded as UTF8.
`static final String`
`SOURCE`
Key for the source of a segment in the `diagnostics`.
`static final String`
`SOURCE_ADDINDEXES_READERS`
Source of a segment which results from a call to `addIndexes(CodecReader...)`.
`static final String`
`SOURCE_FLUSH`
Source of a segment which results from a flush.
`static final String`
`SOURCE_MERGE`
Source of a segment which results from a merge of other segments.
`static final String`
`WRITE_LOCK_NAME`
Name of the write lock in the index.

### Fields inherited from interface org.apache.lucene.util.Accountable

`NULL_ACCOUNTABLE`

## Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor
Description
`IndexWriter(Directory d, IndexWriterConfig conf)`
Constructs a new IndexWriter per the settings given in `conf`.

## Method Summary

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`long`
`addDocument(Iterable<? extends IndexableField> doc)`
Adds a document to this index.
`long`
`addDocuments(Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends IndexableField>> docs)`
Atomically adds a block of documents with sequentially assigned document IDs, such that an external reader will see all or none of the documents.
`long`
`addIndexes(CodecReader... readers)`
Merges the provided indexes into this index.
`long`
`addIndexes(Directory... dirs)`
Adds all segments from an array of indexes into this index.
`void`
`addIndexesReaderMerge(MergePolicy.OneMerge merge)`
Runs a single merge operation for `addIndexes(CodecReader...)`.
`void`
`advanceSegmentInfosVersion(long newVersion)`
If `SegmentInfos.getVersion()` is below `newVersion` then update it to this value.
`void`
`close()`
Closes all open resources and releases the write lock.
`final long`
`commit()`
Commits all pending changes (added and deleted documents, segment merges, added indexes, etc.) to the index, and syncs all referenced index files, such that a reader will see the changes and the index updates will survive an OS or machine crash or power loss.
`void`
`decRefDeleter(SegmentInfos segmentInfos)`
Record that the files referenced by this `SegmentInfos` are no longer in use.
`long`
`deleteAll()`
Delete all documents in the index.
`long`
`deleteDocuments(Term... terms)`
Deletes the document(s) containing any of the terms.
`long`
`deleteDocuments(Query... queries)`
Deletes the document(s) matching any of the provided queries.
`void`
`deleteUnusedFiles()`
Expert: remove any index files that are no longer used.
`protected void`
`doAfterFlush()`
A hook for extending classes to execute operations after pending added and deleted documents have been flushed to the Directory but before the change is committed (new segments_N file written).
`protected void`
`doBeforeFlush()`
A hook for extending classes to execute operations before pending added and deleted documents are flushed to the Directory.
`protected final void`
`ensureOpen()`
Used internally to throw an `AlreadyClosedException` if this IndexWriter has been closed (`closed=true`) or is in the process of closing (`closing=true`).
`protected final void`
`ensureOpen(boolean failIfClosing)`
Used internally to throw an `AlreadyClosedException` if this IndexWriter has been closed or is in the process of closing.
`final void`
`flush()`
Moves all in-memory segments to the `Directory`, but does not commit (fsync) them (call `commit()` for that).
`final boolean`
`flushNextBuffer()`
Expert: Flushes the next pending writer per thread buffer if available or the largest active non-pending writer per thread buffer in the calling thread.
`void`
`forceMerge(int maxNumSegments)`
Forces merge policy to merge segments until there are `<= maxNumSegments`.
`void`
`forceMerge(int maxNumSegments, boolean doWait)`
Just like `forceMerge(int)`, except you can specify whether the call should block until all merging completes.
`void`
`forceMergeDeletes()`
Forces merging of all segments that have deleted documents.
`void`
`forceMergeDeletes(boolean doWait)`
Just like `forceMergeDeletes()`, except you can specify whether the call should block until the operation completes.
`Analyzer`
`getAnalyzer()`
Returns the analyzer used by this index.
`LiveIndexWriterConfig`
`getConfig()`
Returns a `LiveIndexWriterConfig`, which can be used to query the IndexWriter current settings, as well as modify "live" ones.
`Directory`
`getDirectory()`
Returns the Directory used by this index.
`IndexWriter.DocStats`
`getDocStats()`
Returns accurate `IndexWriter.DocStats` for this writer.
`Set<String>`
`getFieldNames()`
Return an unmodifiable set of all field names as visible from this IndexWriter, across all segments of the index.
`final long`
`getFlushingBytes()`
Returns the number of bytes currently being flushed
`InfoStream`
`getInfoStream()`
Returns the info stream that can be used to log messages
`final Iterable<Map.Entry<String,String>>`
`getLiveCommitData()`
Returns the commit user data iterable previously set with `setLiveCommitData(Iterable)`, or null if nothing has been set yet.
`long`
`getMaxCompletedSequenceNumber()`
Returns the highest sequence number across all completed operations, or 0 if no operations have finished yet.
`Set<SegmentCommitInfo>`
`getMergingSegments()`
Expert: to be used by a `MergePolicy` to avoid selecting merges for segments already being merged.
`long`
`getPendingNumDocs()`
Returns the number of documents in the index including documents are being added (i.e., reserved).
`Throwable`
`getTragicException()`
If this `IndexWriter` was closed as a side-effect of a tragic exception, e.g.
`boolean`
`hasDeletions()`
Returns true if this index has deletions (including buffered deletions).
`boolean`
`hasPendingMerges()`
Expert: returns true if there are merges waiting to be scheduled.
`final boolean`
`hasUncommittedChanges()`
Returns true if there may be changes that have not been committed.
`void`
`incRefDeleter(SegmentInfos segmentInfos)`
Record that the files referenced by this `SegmentInfos` are still in use.
`protected boolean`
`isEnableTestPoints()`
Tests should override this to enable test points.
`boolean`
`isOpen()`
Returns `true` if this `IndexWriter` is still open.
`final void`
`maybeMerge()`
Expert: asks the mergePolicy whether any merges are necessary now and if so, runs the requested merges and then iterate (test again if merges are needed) until no more merges are returned by the mergePolicy.
`protected void`
`merge(MergePolicy.OneMerge merge)`
Merges the indicated segments, replacing them in the stack with a single segment.
`protected void`
`mergeSuccess(MergePolicy.OneMerge merge)`
Hook that's called when the specified merge is complete.
`int`
`numDeletedDocs(SegmentCommitInfo info)`
Obtain the number of deleted docs for a pooled reader.
`final int`
`numDeletesToMerge(SegmentCommitInfo info)`
Returns the number of deletes a merge would claim back if the given segment is merged.
`final int`
`numRamDocs()`
Expert: Return the number of documents currently buffered in RAM.
`void`
`onTragicEvent(Throwable tragedy, String location)`
This method should be called on a tragic event ie.
`final long`
`prepareCommit()`
Expert: prepare for commit.
`final long`
`ramBytesUsed()`
Return the memory usage of this object in bytes.
`void`
`rollback()`
Close the `IndexWriter` without committing any changes that have occurred since the last commit (or since it was opened, if commit hasn't been called).
`final void`
`setLiveCommitData(Iterable<Map.Entry<String,String>> commitUserData)`
Sets the iterator to provide the commit user data map at commit time.
`final void`
`setLiveCommitData(Iterable<Map.Entry<String,String>> commitUserData, boolean doIncrementVersion)`
Sets the commit user data iterator, controlling whether to advance the `SegmentInfos.getVersion()`.
`long`
`softUpdateDocument(Term term, Iterable<? extends IndexableField> doc, Field... softDeletes)`
Expert: Updates a document by first updating the document(s) containing `term` with the given doc-values fields and then adding the new document.
`long`
`softUpdateDocuments(Term term, Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends IndexableField>> docs, Field... softDeletes)`
Expert: Atomically updates documents matching the provided term with the given doc-values fields and adds a block of documents with sequentially assigned document IDs, such that an external reader will see all or none of the documents.
`long`
`tryDeleteDocument(IndexReader readerIn, int docID)`
Expert: attempts to delete by document ID, as long as the provided reader is a near-real-time reader (from `DirectoryReader.open(IndexWriter)`).
`long`
`tryUpdateDocValue(IndexReader readerIn, int docID, Field... fields)`
Expert: attempts to update doc values by document ID, as long as the provided reader is a near-real-time reader (from `DirectoryReader.open(IndexWriter)`).
`long`
`updateBinaryDocValue(Term term, String field, BytesRef value)`
Updates a document's `BinaryDocValues` for `field` to the given `value` .
`long`
`updateDocument(Term term, Iterable<? extends IndexableField> doc)`
Updates a document by first deleting the document(s) containing `term` and then adding the new document.
`long`
`updateDocuments(Term delTerm, Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends IndexableField>> docs)`
Atomically deletes documents matching the provided delTerm and adds a block of documents with sequentially assigned document IDs, such that an external reader will see all or none of the documents.
`long`
`updateDocuments(Query delQuery, Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends IndexableField>> docs)`
Similar to `updateDocuments(Term, Iterable)`, but take a query instead of a term to identify the documents to be updated
`long`
`updateDocValues(Term term, Field... updates)`
Updates documents' DocValues fields to the given values.
`long`
`updateNumericDocValue(Term term, String field, long value)`
Updates a document's `NumericDocValues` for `field` to the given `value` .

### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

### Methods inherited from interface org.apache.lucene.util.Accountable

`getChildResources`

## Field Details

### MAX_DOCS

public static final int MAX_DOCS
Hard limit on maximum number of documents that may be added to the index. If you try to add more than this you'll hit `IllegalArgumentException`.

See Also:
  - Constant Field Values

### MAX_POSITION

public static final int MAX_POSITION
Maximum value of the token position in an indexed field.

See Also:
  - Constant Field Values

### WRITE_LOCK_NAME

public static final String WRITE_LOCK_NAME
Name of the write lock in the index.

See Also:
  - Constant Field Values

### SOURCE

public static final String SOURCE
Key for the source of a segment in the `diagnostics`.

See Also:
  - Constant Field Values

### SOURCE_MERGE

public static final String SOURCE_MERGE
Source of a segment which results from a merge of other segments.

See Also:
  - Constant Field Values

### SOURCE_FLUSH

public static final String SOURCE_FLUSH
Source of a segment which results from a flush.

See Also:
  - Constant Field Values

### SOURCE_ADDINDEXES_READERS

public static final String SOURCE_ADDINDEXES_READERS
Source of a segment which results from a call to `addIndexes(CodecReader...)`.

See Also:
  - Constant Field Values

### MAX_TERM_LENGTH

public static final int MAX_TERM_LENGTH
Absolute hard maximum length for a term, in bytes once encoded as UTF8. If a term arrives from the analyzer longer than this length, an `IllegalArgumentException` is thrown and a message is printed to infoStream, if set (see `IndexWriterConfig.setInfoStream(InfoStream)`).

See Also:
  - Constant Field Values

### MAX_STORED_STRING_LENGTH

public static final int MAX_STORED_STRING_LENGTH
Maximum length string for a stored field.

## Constructor Details

### IndexWriter

public IndexWriter(Directory d, IndexWriterConfig conf) throws IOException
Constructs a new IndexWriter per the settings given in `conf`. If you want to make "live" changes to this writer instance, use `getConfig()`.

NOTE: after ths writer is created, the given configuration instance cannot be passed to another writer.

Parameters:
  `d` - the index directory. The index is either created or appended according `conf.getOpenMode()`.
  `conf` - the configuration settings according to which IndexWriter should be initialized.
Throws:
  `IOException` - if the directory cannot be read/written to, or if it does not exist and `conf.getOpenMode()` is `OpenMode.APPEND` or if there is any other low-level IO error

## Method Details

### ramBytesUsed

public final long ramBytesUsed()
Description copied from interface: `Accountable`
Return the memory usage of this object in bytes. Negative values are illegal.

Specified by:
  `ramBytesUsed` in interface `Accountable`

### getFlushingBytes

public final long getFlushingBytes()
Returns the number of bytes currently being flushed

### numDeletedDocs

public int numDeletedDocs(SegmentCommitInfo info)
Obtain the number of deleted docs for a pooled reader. If the reader isn't being pooled, the segmentInfo's delCount is returned.

Specified by:
  `numDeletedDocs` in interface `MergePolicy.MergeContext`

### ensureOpen

protected final void ensureOpen(boolean failIfClosing) throws AlreadyClosedException
Used internally to throw an `AlreadyClosedException` if this IndexWriter has been closed or is in the process of closing.

Parameters:
  `failIfClosing` - if true, also fail when `IndexWriter` is in the process of closing (`closing=true`) but not yet done closing ( `closed=false`)
Throws:
  `AlreadyClosedException` - if this IndexWriter is closed or in the process of closing

### ensureOpen

protected final void ensureOpen() throws AlreadyClosedException
Used internally to throw an `AlreadyClosedException` if this IndexWriter has been closed (`closed=true`) or is in the process of closing (`closing=true`).

Calls `ensureOpen(true)`.

Throws:
  `AlreadyClosedException` - if this IndexWriter is closed

### getConfig

public LiveIndexWriterConfig getConfig()
Returns a `LiveIndexWriterConfig`, which can be used to query the IndexWriter current settings, as well as modify "live" ones.

### close

public void close() throws IOException
Closes all open resources and releases the write lock.

If `LiveIndexWriterConfig.commitOnClose` is `true`, this will attempt to gracefully shut down by writing any changes, waiting for any running merges, committing, and closing. In this case, note that:

- If you called prepareCommit but failed to call commit, this method will throw `IllegalStateException` and the `IndexWriter` will not be closed.
- If this method throws any other exception, the `IndexWriter` will be closed, but changes may have been lost.

Note that this may be a costly operation, so, try to re-use a single writer instead of closing and opening a new one. See `commit()` for caveats about write caching done by some IO devices.

NOTE: You must ensure no other threads are still making changes at the same time that this method is invoked.

Specified by:
  `close` in interface `AutoCloseable`
Specified by:
  `close` in interface `Closeable`
Throws:
  `IOException`

### getDirectory

public Directory getDirectory()
Returns the Directory used by this index.

### getInfoStream

public InfoStream getInfoStream()
Description copied from interface: `MergePolicy.MergeContext`
Returns the info stream that can be used to log messages

Specified by:
  `getInfoStream` in interface `MergePolicy.MergeContext`

### getAnalyzer

public Analyzer getAnalyzer()
Returns the analyzer used by this index.

### advanceSegmentInfosVersion

public void advanceSegmentInfosVersion(long newVersion)
If `SegmentInfos.getVersion()` is below `newVersion` then update it to this value.

NOTE: This API is for internal purposes only and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### hasDeletions

public boolean hasDeletions()
Returns true if this index has deletions (including buffered deletions). Note that this will return true if there are buffered Term/Query deletions, even if it turns out those buffered deletions don't match any documents.

### addDocument

public long addDocument(Iterable<? extends IndexableField> doc) throws IOException
Adds a document to this index.

Note that if an Exception is hit (for example disk full) then the index will be consistent, but this document may not have been added. Furthermore, it's possible the index will have one segment in non-compound format even when using compound files (when a merge has partially succeeded).

This method periodically flushes pending documents to the Directory (see above), and also periodically triggers segment merges in the index according to the `MergePolicy` in use.

Merges temporarily consume space in the directory. The amount of space required is up to 1X the size of all segments being merged, when no readers/searchers are open against the index, and up to 2X the size of all segments being merged when readers/searchers are open against the index (see `forceMerge(int)` for details). The sequence of primitive merge operations performed is governed by the merge policy.

Note that each term in the document can be no longer than `MAX_TERM_LENGTH` in bytes, otherwise an IllegalArgumentException will be thrown.

Note that it's possible to create an invalid Unicode string in java if a UTF16 surrogate pair is malformed. In this case, the invalid characters are silently replaced with the Unicode replacement character U+FFFD.

Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error

### addDocuments

public long addDocuments(Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends IndexableField>> docs) throws IOException
Atomically adds a block of documents with sequentially assigned document IDs, such that an external reader will see all or none of the documents.

WARNING: the index does not currently record which documents were added as a block. Today this is fine, because merging will preserve a block. The order of documents within a segment will be preserved, even when child documents within a block are deleted. Most search features (like result grouping and block joining) require you to mark documents; when these documents are deleted these search features will not work as expected. Obviously adding documents to an existing block will require you the reindex the entire block.

However it's possible that in the future Lucene may merge more aggressively re-order documents (for example, perhaps to obtain better index compression), in which case you may need to fully re-index your documents at that time.

See `addDocument(Iterable)` for details on index and IndexWriter state after an Exception, and flushing/merging temporary free space requirements.

NOTE: tools that do offline splitting of an index (for example, IndexSplitter in contrib) or re-sorting of documents (for example, IndexSorter in contrib) are not aware of these atomically added documents and will likely break them up. Use such tools at your own risk!

Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error
WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### updateDocuments

public long updateDocuments(Term delTerm, Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends IndexableField>> docs) throws IOException
Atomically deletes documents matching the provided delTerm and adds a block of documents with sequentially assigned document IDs, such that an external reader will see all or none of the documents.

See `addDocuments(Iterable)`.

Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error
WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### updateDocuments

public long updateDocuments(Query delQuery, Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends IndexableField>> docs) throws IOException
Similar to `updateDocuments(Term, Iterable)`, but take a query instead of a term to identify the documents to be updated

Throws:
  `IOException`
WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### softUpdateDocuments

public long softUpdateDocuments(Term term, Iterable<? extends Iterable<? extends IndexableField>> docs, Field... softDeletes) throws IOException
Expert: Atomically updates documents matching the provided term with the given doc-values fields and adds a block of documents with sequentially assigned document IDs, such that an external reader will see all or none of the documents.

One use of this API is to retain older versions of documents instead of replacing them. The existing documents can be updated to reflect they are no longer current while atomically adding new documents at the same time.

In contrast to `updateDocuments(Term, Iterable)` this method will not delete documents in the index matching the given term but instead update them with the given doc-values fields which can be used as a soft-delete mechanism.

See `addDocuments(Iterable)` and `updateDocuments(Term, Iterable)`.

Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error
WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### tryDeleteDocument

public long tryDeleteDocument(IndexReader readerIn, int docID) throws IOException
Expert: attempts to delete by document ID, as long as the provided reader is a near-real-time reader (from `DirectoryReader.open(IndexWriter)`). If the provided reader is an NRT reader obtained from this writer, and its segment has not been merged away, then the delete succeeds and this method returns a valid (> 0) sequence number; else, it returns -1 and the caller must then separately delete by Term or Query.

NOTE: this method can only delete documents visible to the currently open NRT reader. If you need to delete documents indexed after opening the NRT reader you must use `deleteDocuments(Term...)`).

Throws:
  `IOException`

### tryUpdateDocValue

public long tryUpdateDocValue(IndexReader readerIn, int docID, Field... fields) throws IOException
Expert: attempts to update doc values by document ID, as long as the provided reader is a near-real-time reader (from `DirectoryReader.open(IndexWriter)`). If the provided reader is an NRT reader obtained from this writer, and its segment has not been merged away, then the update succeeds and this method returns a valid (> 0) sequence number; else, it returns -1 and the caller must then either retry the update and resolve the document again. If a doc values fields data is `null` the existing value is removed from all documents matching the term. This can be used to un-delete a soft-deleted document since this method will apply the field update even if the document is marked as deleted.

NOTE: this method can only updates documents visible to the currently open NRT reader. If you need to update documents indexed after opening the NRT reader you must use `updateDocValues(Term, Field...)`.

Throws:
  `IOException`

### deleteDocuments

public long deleteDocuments(Term... terms) throws IOException
Deletes the document(s) containing any of the terms. All given deletes are applied and flushed atomically at the same time.

Parameters:
  `terms` - array of terms to identify the documents to be deleted
Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error

### deleteDocuments

public long deleteDocuments(Query... queries) throws IOException
Deletes the document(s) matching any of the provided queries. All given deletes are applied and flushed atomically at the same time.

Parameters:
  `queries` - array of queries to identify the documents to be deleted
Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error

### updateDocument

public long updateDocument(Term term, Iterable<? extends IndexableField> doc) throws IOException
Updates a document by first deleting the document(s) containing `term` and then adding the new document. The delete and then add are atomic as seen by a reader on the same index (flush may happen only after the add).

Parameters:
  `term` - the term to identify the document(s) to be deleted
  `doc` - the document to be added
Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error

### softUpdateDocument

public long softUpdateDocument(Term term, Iterable<? extends IndexableField> doc, Field... softDeletes) throws IOException
Expert: Updates a document by first updating the document(s) containing `term` with the given doc-values fields and then adding the new document. The doc-values update and then add are atomic as seen by a reader on the same index (flush may happen only after the add).

One use of this API is to retain older versions of documents instead of replacing them. The existing documents can be updated to reflect they are no longer current while atomically adding new documents at the same time.

In contrast to `updateDocument(Term, Iterable)` this method will not delete documents in the index matching the given term but instead update them with the given doc-values fields which can be used as a soft-delete mechanism.

See `addDocuments(Iterable)` and `updateDocuments(Term, Iterable)`.

Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error
WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### updateNumericDocValue

public long updateNumericDocValue(Term term, String field, long value) throws IOException
Updates a document's `NumericDocValues` for `field` to the given `value` . You can only update fields that already exist in the index, not add new fields through this method. You can only update fields that were indexed with doc values only.

Parameters:
  `term` - the term to identify the document(s) to be updated
  `field` - field name of the `NumericDocValues` field
  `value` - new value for the field
Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error

### updateBinaryDocValue

public long updateBinaryDocValue(Term term, String field, BytesRef value) throws IOException
Updates a document's `BinaryDocValues` for `field` to the given `value` . You can only update fields that already exist in the index, not add new fields through this method. You can only update fields that were indexed only with doc values.

NOTE: this method currently replaces the existing value of all affected documents with the new value.

Parameters:
  `term` - the term to identify the document(s) to be updated
  `field` - field name of the `BinaryDocValues` field
  `value` - new value for the field
Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error

### updateDocValues

public long updateDocValues(Term term, Field... updates) throws IOException
Updates documents' DocValues fields to the given values. Each field update is applied to the set of documents that are associated with the `Term` to the same value. All updates are atomically applied and flushed together. If a doc values fields data is `null` the existing value is removed from all documents matching the term.

Parameters:
  `updates` - the updates to apply
Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error

### getFieldNames

public Set<String> getFieldNames()
Return an unmodifiable set of all field names as visible from this IndexWriter, across all segments of the index.

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### forceMerge

public void forceMerge(int maxNumSegments) throws IOException
Forces merge policy to merge segments until there are `<= maxNumSegments`. The actual merges to be executed are determined by the `MergePolicy`.

This is a horribly costly operation, especially when you pass a small `maxNumSegments`; usually you should only call this if the index is static (will no longer be changed).

Note that this requires free space that is proportional to the size of the index in your Directory: 2X if you are not using compound file format, and 3X if you are. For example, if your index size is 10 MB then you need an additional 20 MB free for this to complete (30 MB if you're using compound file format). This is also affected by the `Codec` that is used to execute the merge, and may result in even a bigger index. Also, it's best to call `commit()` afterwards, to allow IndexWriter to free up disk space.

If some but not all readers re-open while merging is underway, this will cause `> 2X` temporary space to be consumed as those new readers will then hold open the temporary segments at that time. It is best not to re-open readers while merging is running.

The actual temporary usage could be much less than these figures (it depends on many factors).

In general, once this completes, the total size of the index will be less than the size of the starting index. It could be quite a bit smaller (if there were many pending deletes) or just slightly smaller.

If an Exception is hit, for example due to disk full, the index will not be corrupted and no documents will be lost. However, it may have been partially merged (some segments were merged but not all), and it's possible that one of the segments in the index will be in non-compound format even when using compound file format. This will occur when the Exception is hit during conversion of the segment into compound format.

This call will merge those segments present in the index when the call started. If other threads are still adding documents and flushing segments, those newly created segments will not be merged unless you call forceMerge again.

Parameters:
  `maxNumSegments` - maximum number of segments left in the index after merging finishes
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error
See Also:
  - `MergePolicy.findMerges(org.apache.lucene.index.MergeTrigger, org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos, org.apache.lucene.index.MergePolicy.MergeContext)`

### forceMerge

public void forceMerge(int maxNumSegments, boolean doWait) throws IOException
Just like `forceMerge(int)`, except you can specify whether the call should block until all merging completes. This is only meaningful with a `MergeScheduler` that is able to run merges in background threads.

Throws:
  `IOException`

### forceMergeDeletes

public void forceMergeDeletes(boolean doWait) throws IOException
Just like `forceMergeDeletes()`, except you can specify whether the call should block until the operation completes. This is only meaningful with a `MergeScheduler` that is able to run merges in background threads.

Throws:
  `IOException`

### forceMergeDeletes

public void forceMergeDeletes() throws IOException
Forces merging of all segments that have deleted documents. The actual merges to be executed are determined by the `MergePolicy`. For example, the default `TieredMergePolicy` will only pick a segment if the percentage of deleted docs is over 10%.

This is often a horribly costly operation; rarely is it warranted.

To see how many deletions you have pending in your index, call `IndexReader.numDeletedDocs()`.

NOTE: this method first flushes a new segment (if there are indexed documents), and applies all buffered deletes.

Throws:
  `IOException`

### maybeMerge

public final void maybeMerge() throws IOException
Expert: asks the mergePolicy whether any merges are necessary now and if so, runs the requested merges and then iterate (test again if merges are needed) until no more merges are returned by the mergePolicy.

Explicit calls to maybeMerge() are usually not necessary. The most common case is when merge policy parameters have changed.

This method will call the `MergePolicy` with `MergeTrigger.EXPLICIT`.

Throws:
  `IOException`

### getMergingSegments

public Set<SegmentCommitInfo> getMergingSegments()
Expert: to be used by a `MergePolicy` to avoid selecting merges for segments already being merged. The returned collection is not cloned, and thus is only safe to access if you hold IndexWriter's lock (which you do when IndexWriter invokes the MergePolicy).

The Set is unmodifiable.

Specified by:
  `getMergingSegments` in interface `MergePolicy.MergeContext`

### hasPendingMerges

public boolean hasPendingMerges()
Expert: returns true if there are merges waiting to be scheduled.

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### rollback

public void rollback() throws IOException
Close the `IndexWriter` without committing any changes that have occurred since the last commit (or since it was opened, if commit hasn't been called). This removes any temporary files that had been created, after which the state of the index will be the same as it was when commit() was last called or when this writer was first opened. This also clears a previous call to `prepareCommit()`.

Specified by:
  `rollback` in interface `TwoPhaseCommit`
Throws:
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error

### deleteAll

public long deleteAll() throws IOException
Delete all documents in the index.

This method will drop all buffered documents and will remove all segments from the index. This change will not be visible until a `commit()` has been called. This method can be rolled back using `rollback()`.

NOTE: this method is much faster than using deleteDocuments( new MatchAllDocsQuery() ). Yet, this method also has different semantics compared to `deleteDocuments(Query...)` since internal data-structures are cleared as well as all segment information is forcefully dropped anti-viral semantics like omitting norms are reset or doc value types are cleared. Essentially a call to `deleteAll()` is equivalent to creating a new `IndexWriter` with `IndexWriterConfig.OpenMode.CREATE` which a delete query only marks documents as deleted.

NOTE: this method will forcefully abort all merges in progress. If other threads are running `forceMerge(int)`, `addIndexes(CodecReader[])` or `forceMergeDeletes(boolean)` methods, they may receive `MergePolicy.MergeAbortedException`s.

Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `IOException`

### addIndexes

public long addIndexes(Directory... dirs) throws IOException
Adds all segments from an array of indexes into this index.

This may be used to parallelize batch indexing. A large document collection can be broken into sub-collections. Each sub-collection can be indexed in parallel, on a different thread, process or machine. The complete index can then be created by merging sub-collection indexes with this method.

NOTE: this method acquires the write lock in each directory, to ensure that no `IndexWriter` is currently open or tries to open while this is running.

This method is transactional in how Exceptions are handled: it does not commit a new segments_N file until all indexes are added. This means if an Exception occurs (for example disk full), then either no indexes will have been added or they all will have been.

Note that this requires temporary free space in the `Directory` up to 2X the sum of all input indexes (including the starting index). If readers/searchers are open against the starting index, then temporary free space required will be higher by the size of the starting index (see `forceMerge(int)` for details).

This requires this index not be among those to be added.

All added indexes must have been created by the same Lucene version as this index.

Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error
  `IllegalArgumentException` - if addIndexes would cause the index to exceed `MAX_DOCS`, or if the indoming index sort does not match this index's index sort

### addIndexes

public long addIndexes(CodecReader... readers) throws IOException
Merges the provided indexes into this index.

The provided IndexReaders are not closed.

See `addIndexes(org.apache.lucene.store.Directory...)` for details on transactional semantics, temporary free space required in the Directory, and non-CFS segments on an Exception.

NOTE: empty segments are dropped by this method and not added to this index.

NOTE: provided `LeafReader`s are merged as specified by the `MergePolicy.findMerges(CodecReader...)` API. Default behavior is to merge all provided readers into a single segment. You can modify this by overriding the `findMerge` API in your custom merge policy.

Returns:
  The sequence number for this operation
Throws:
  `CorruptIndexException` - if the index is corrupt
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error
  `IllegalArgumentException` - if addIndexes would cause the index to exceed `MAX_DOCS`

### addIndexesReaderMerge

public void addIndexesReaderMerge(MergePolicy.OneMerge merge) throws IOException
Runs a single merge operation for `addIndexes(CodecReader...)`.

Merges and creates a SegmentInfo, for the readers grouped together in provided OneMerge.

Parameters:
  `merge` - OneMerge object initialized from readers.
Throws:
  `IOException` - if there is a low-level IO error

### doAfterFlush

protected void doAfterFlush() throws IOException
A hook for extending classes to execute operations after pending added and deleted documents have been flushed to the Directory but before the change is committed (new segments_N file written).

Throws:
  `IOException`

### doBeforeFlush

protected void doBeforeFlush() throws IOException
A hook for extending classes to execute operations before pending added and deleted documents are flushed to the Directory.

Throws:
  `IOException`

### prepareCommit

public final long prepareCommit() throws IOException
Expert: prepare for commit. This does the first phase of 2-phase commit. This method does all steps necessary to commit changes since this writer was opened: flushes pending added and deleted docs, syncs the index files, writes most of next segments_N file. After calling this you must call either `commit()` to finish the commit, or `rollback()` to revert the commit and undo all changes done since the writer was opened.

You can also just call `commit()` directly without prepareCommit first in which case that method will internally call prepareCommit.

Specified by:
  `prepareCommit` in interface `TwoPhaseCommit`
Returns:
  The sequence number of the last operation in the commit. All sequence numbers <= this value will be reflected in the commit, and all others will not.
Throws:
  `IOException`

### flushNextBuffer

public final boolean flushNextBuffer() throws IOException
Expert: Flushes the next pending writer per thread buffer if available or the largest active non-pending writer per thread buffer in the calling thread. This can be used to flush documents to disk outside of an indexing thread. In contrast to `flush()` this won't mark all currently active indexing buffers as flush-pending.

Note: this method is best-effort and might not flush any segments to disk. If there is a full flush happening concurrently multiple segments might have been flushed. Users of this API can access the IndexWriters current memory consumption via `ramBytesUsed()`

Returns:
  `true` iff this method flushed at least on segment to disk.
Throws:
  `IOException`
WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### setLiveCommitData

public final void setLiveCommitData(Iterable<Map.Entry<String,String>> commitUserData)
Sets the iterator to provide the commit user data map at commit time. Calling this method is considered a committable change and will be `committed` even if there are no other changes this writer. Note that you must call this method before `prepareCommit()`. Otherwise it won't be included in the follow-on `commit()`.

NOTE: the iterator is late-binding: it is only visited once all documents for the commit have been written to their segments, before the next segments_N file is written

### setLiveCommitData

public final void setLiveCommitData(Iterable<Map.Entry<String,String>> commitUserData, boolean doIncrementVersion)
Sets the commit user data iterator, controlling whether to advance the `SegmentInfos.getVersion()`.

See Also:
  - `setLiveCommitData(Iterable)`
NOTE: This API is for internal purposes only and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### getLiveCommitData

public final Iterable<Map.Entry<String,String>> getLiveCommitData()
Returns the commit user data iterable previously set with `setLiveCommitData(Iterable)`, or null if nothing has been set yet.

### commit

public final long commit() throws IOException
Commits all pending changes (added and deleted documents, segment merges, added indexes, etc.) to the index, and syncs all referenced index files, such that a reader will see the changes and the index updates will survive an OS or machine crash or power loss. Note that this does not wait for any running background merges to finish. This may be a costly operation, so you should test the cost in your application and do it only when really necessary.

Note that this operation calls Directory.sync on the index files. That call should not return until the file contents and metadata are on stable storage. For FSDirectory, this calls the OS's fsync. But, beware: some hardware devices may in fact cache writes even during fsync, and return before the bits are actually on stable storage, to give the appearance of faster performance. If you have such a device, and it does not have a battery backup (for example) then on power loss it may still lose data. Lucene cannot guarantee consistency on such devices.

If nothing was committed, because there were no pending changes, this returns -1. Otherwise, it returns the sequence number such that all indexing operations prior to this sequence will be included in the commit point, and all other operations will not.

Specified by:
  `commit` in interface `TwoPhaseCommit`
Returns:
  The sequence number of the last operation in the commit. All sequence numbers <= this value will be reflected in the commit, and all others will not.
Throws:
  `IOException`
See Also:
  - `prepareCommit()`

### hasUncommittedChanges

public final boolean hasUncommittedChanges()
Returns true if there may be changes that have not been committed. There are cases where this may return true when there are no actual "real" changes to the index, for example if you've deleted by Term or Query but that Term or Query does not match any documents. Also, if a merge kicked off as a result of flushing a new segment during `commit()`, or a concurrent merged finished, this method may return true right after you had just called `commit()`.

### flush

public final void flush() throws IOException
Moves all in-memory segments to the `Directory`, but does not commit (fsync) them (call `commit()` for that).

Throws:
  `IOException`

### numRamDocs

public final int numRamDocs()
Expert: Return the number of documents currently buffered in RAM.

### merge

protected void merge(MergePolicy.OneMerge merge) throws IOException
Merges the indicated segments, replacing them in the stack with a single segment.

Throws:
  `IOException`
WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### mergeSuccess

protected void mergeSuccess(MergePolicy.OneMerge merge)
Hook that's called when the specified merge is complete.

### onTragicEvent

public void onTragicEvent(Throwable tragedy, String location)
This method should be called on a tragic event ie. if a downstream class of the writer hits an unrecoverable exception. This method does not rethrow the tragic event exception.

Note: This method will not close the writer but can be called from any location without respecting any lock order

NOTE: This API is for internal purposes only and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### getTragicException

public Throwable getTragicException()
If this `IndexWriter` was closed as a side-effect of a tragic exception, e.g. disk full while flushing a new segment, this returns the root cause exception. Otherwise (no tragic exception has occurred) it returns null.

### isOpen

public boolean isOpen()
Returns `true` if this `IndexWriter` is still open.

### deleteUnusedFiles

public void deleteUnusedFiles() throws IOException
Expert: remove any index files that are no longer used.

IndexWriter normally deletes unused files itself, during indexing. However, on Windows, which disallows deletion of open files, if there is a reader open on the index then those files cannot be deleted. This is fine, because IndexWriter will periodically retry the deletion.

However, IndexWriter doesn't try that often: only on open, close, flushing a new segment, and finishing a merge. If you don't do any of these actions with your IndexWriter, you'll see the unused files linger. If that's a problem, call this method to delete them (once you've closed the open readers that were preventing their deletion).

In addition, you can call this method to delete unreferenced index commits. This might be useful if you are using an `IndexDeletionPolicy` which holds onto index commits until some criteria are met, but those commits are no longer needed. Otherwise, those commits will be deleted the next time commit() is called.

Throws:
  `IOException`

### incRefDeleter

public void incRefDeleter(SegmentInfos segmentInfos) throws IOException
Record that the files referenced by this `SegmentInfos` are still in use.

Throws:
  `IOException`
NOTE: This API is for internal purposes only and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### decRefDeleter

public void decRefDeleter(SegmentInfos segmentInfos) throws IOException
Record that the files referenced by this `SegmentInfos` are no longer in use. Only call this if you are sure you previously called `incRefDeleter(org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos)`.

Throws:
  `IOException`
NOTE: This API is for internal purposes only and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### getPendingNumDocs

public long getPendingNumDocs()
Returns the number of documents in the index including documents are being added (i.e., reserved).

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### getMaxCompletedSequenceNumber

public long getMaxCompletedSequenceNumber()
Returns the highest sequence number across all completed operations, or 0 if no operations have finished yet. Still in-flight operations (in other threads) are not counted until they finish.

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### numDeletesToMerge

public final int numDeletesToMerge(SegmentCommitInfo info) throws IOException
Returns the number of deletes a merge would claim back if the given segment is merged.

Specified by:
  `numDeletesToMerge` in interface `MergePolicy.MergeContext`
Parameters:
  `info` - the segment to get the number of deletes for
Throws:
  `IOException`
See Also:
  - `MergePolicy.numDeletesToMerge(SegmentCommitInfo, int, org.apache.lucene.util.IOSupplier)`
WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

### isEnableTestPoints

protected boolean isEnableTestPoints()
Tests should override this to enable test points. Default is `false`.

### getDocStats

public IndexWriter.DocStats getDocStats()
Returns accurate `IndexWriter.DocStats` for this writer. The numDoc for instance can change after maxDoc is fetched that causes numDocs to be greater than maxDoc which makes it hard to get accurate document stats from IndexWriter.