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Shai Erera commented on LUCENE-1585:
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bq. What was the issue w/ that approach again?
addIndexes had no problem. It was addIndexesNoOptimize which calls the MS,
which calls back to IW.merge. The only way to pass it through was to get it
through MS, which is not good.
bq. Or.. maybe we should leave it as globally settable on IW, since users may
want to rewrite payloads for "ordinary" segment merges...
Exactly ! I think that's a useful utility for e.g. index migration of existing
indexes. You can set it on IW and then call optimize(). There are other use
cases as well.
> Allow to control how payloads are merged
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>
> 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_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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