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Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:02:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael McCandless (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1585) Allow to control how payloads are
 merged
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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1585:
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Patches look good Shai.

One thing -- in TermsConsumer, it'd be nice to not step through the for loop checking for non-null dirPP, if the IW had no PPP?

> Allow to control how payloads are merged
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1585
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1585
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Index
>            Reporter: Michael Busch
>            Assignee: Shai Erera
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.1, 4.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-1585_3x.patch, LUCENE-1585_3x.patch, LUCENE-1585_3x.patch, LUCENE-1585_3x.patch, LUCENE-1585_3x.patch, LUCENE-1585_trunk.patch, LUCENE-1585_trunk.patch
>
>
> Lucene handles backwards-compatibility of its data structures by
> converting them from the old into the new formats during segment
> merging. 
> Payloads are simply byte arrays in which users can store arbitrary
> data. Applications that use payloads might want to convert the format
> of their payloads in a similar fashion. Otherwise it's not easily
> possible to ever change the encoding of a payload without reindexing.
> So I propose to introduce a PayloadMerger class that the SegmentMerger
> invokes to merge the payloads from multiple segments. Users can then
> implement their own PayloadMerger to convert payloads from an old into
> a new format.
> In the future we need this kind of flexibility also for column-stride
> fields (LUCENE-1231) and flexible indexing codecs.
> In addition to that it would be nice if users could store version
> information in the segments file. E.g. they could store "in segment _2
> the term a:b uses payloads of format x.y".

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