[LUCENE-3309] Add narrow API for loading stored fields, to replace FieldSelector

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Field Type branch
• Component/s: core/index
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 13/Jul/11 16:07
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:53
• Resolved: 14/Jul/11 10:23

Description

I think we should "invert" the FieldSelector API, with a "push" API
whereby FieldsReader invokes this API once per field in the document
being visited.

Implementations of the API can then do arbitrary things like save away
the field's size, load the field, clone the IndexInput for later lazy
loading, etc.

This very thin API would be a mirror image of the very thin index time
API we now have (IndexableField) and, importantly, it would have no
dependence on our "user space" Document/Field/FieldType impl, so apps
are free to do something totally custom.

After we have this, we should build the "sugar" API that rebuilds a
Document instance (ie IR.document(int docID)) on top of this new thin
API. This'll also be a good test that the API is sufficient.

Relevant discussions from IRC this morning at
http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/lucene-dev?date=2011-07-13#l76