Updating documents fields using lucene

Question

i'm trying to update an indexed documents in lucene by searching for the document, and then extracting the indexed document fields, and then deleting the document and creating a new one. is there anther effective way for such an update?

Answer 1

There isn't. The best you can get is IndexWriter.updateDocument(Term term, Iterable<? extends IndexableField> document) but even this deletes and adds the same document again.