Saving the index in Whoosh

Question

I was looking a suggestion or preferably an example, to store or save the index of Whoosh. I am using Python 2.7 on Windows 7 Professional. If anyone may kindly help.

Answer 1

Whoosh is well documented , you can find most of things in the Official documentation. Here is the example of the Indexer-Searcher from the Quick Start:

# Indexer
>>> from whoosh.index import create_in
>>> from whoosh.fields import *
>>> schema = Schema(title=TEXT(stored=True), path=ID(stored=True), content=TEXT)
>>> ix = create_in("indexdir", schema)
>>> writer = ix.writer()
>>> writer.add_document(title=u"First document", path=u"/a",
...                     content=u"This is the first document we've added!")
>>> writer.add_document(title=u"Second document", path=u"/b",
...                     content=u"The second one is even more interesting!")
>>> writer.commit()

# Searcher 
>>> from whoosh.qparser import QueryParser
>>> with ix.searcher() as searcher:
...     query = QueryParser("content", ix.schema).parse("first")
...     results = searcher.search(query)
...     results[0]
...
{"title": u"First document", "path": u"/a"}

The example is explained in details there.