Hello.
I have indexed many entities. Now I want to rename the entity class or move it to a different java package and I don't want to reindex whole data. I can ensure that the index files location will stay where they are with @Indexed(index="...") But what can I do with the _hibernate_class field?
Is it possible to do such entity refactoring without reindexing whole index? Will it work?

Thank you

Hi,

the best thing to do is really to re-index. Is there are particular reason why you cannot do it? It is for sure the easiest solution.

--Hardy

It would take several hours to reindex all of the documents we have. So I'm trying to figure out another way...

You could try to edit the index with a custom program. After all it is a plain Lucene index. However, to be safe you would have to do this offline as well. Personally I don't think it is worth the effort. Instead I would use the mass indexer to rebuild the index.

Thanks for reply