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Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:04:48 -0300
From: "Carlos Pita" <carlosjosepita@gmail.com>
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: maxDoc and arrays
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>
> Why wouldn't numdocs serve?


Because the document id (which is the array index) would be in the range 0
... maxDoc and not 0 ... numDocs, wouldn't it?

Cheers,
Carlos

Best
> Erick
>
>
> The motivation of this question is that I want to associate some info to
> > each document in the index, and in order to access this additional data
> in
> > O(1) I would like to do this through an array indexing. But the array
> size
> > shouldn't be a lot greater than the total number of documents. I see
> that
> > something similar is done in the example of section 6.1 of Lucene in
> > Action,
> > but for sorting purposes, which is not my case.
> >
> > Related to this: how can update my array of extra data when documents
> are
> > added/removed to/from the index? Is there any feedback mechanism by
> means
> > of
> > callbacks or event handlers?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> > Regards,
> > Carlos
> >
>

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