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  1. Lucene - Core
  2. LUCENE-3309

Add narrow API for loading stored fields, to replace FieldSelector

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • Field Type branch
    • core/index
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    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

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          Michael McCandless
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          Michael McCandless

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