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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-2470:
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bq. I think one consequence of this design is that the BranchingFilter/Stage 
would have to do its own merging, so MergingFilter is not necessary, right?

Right.

bq. The other uses for a MergingFilter should be put into another issue, if we 
go with this design and there is interest, switching this issue to cover only 
BranchingFilter/Stage.

These are interesting too!

bq. Do you mean that it should be possible to configure multiple filters to 
process the same input token?

Actually I didn't -- I meant that we should allow a sub-pipeline to process 1 
token and produce (say) 3.  But it is a neat idea to allow more than one sub to 
operate; I like the PassThroughFilter.

bq. Before I forget: It's always bugged me that analysis output can only be to 
a single field. Could this be the place to fix that?

That's a biggish change :)  I think we should tackle it separately -- we'd have 
to change indexer for this (right now it visits one field at a time, processing 
all of its tokens).

But, I do think this write-once attr approach could be used as a document 
pre-processing pipeline, eg to enhance the doc, pull out additional fields, etc.

> Add conditional braching/merging to Lucene's analysis pipeline
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2470
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2470
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Analysis
>    Affects Versions: 4.0
>            Reporter: Steven Rowe
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Captured from a #lucene brainstorming session with Robert Muir:
> Lucene's analysis pipeline would be more flexible if it were possible to 
> apply filter(s) to only part of an input stream's tokens, under 
> user-specifiable conditions (e.g. when a given token attribute has a 
> particular value) in a way that did not place that responsibility on 
> individual filters.
> Two use cases:
> # StandardAnalyzer could directly handle ideographic characters in the same 
> way as CJKTokenizer, which generates bigrams, if it could call ShingleFilter 
> only when the TypeAttribute=<CJK>, or if Robert's new 
> ScriptAttribute=<Ideographic>.
> # Stemming might make sense for some stemmer/domain combinations only when 
> token length exceeds some threshold.  For example, a user could configure an 
> analyzer to stem only when CharTermAttribute length is greater than 4 
> characters.
> One potential way to achieve this conditional branching facility is with a 
> new kind of filter that can be configured with one or more following filters 
> and condition(s) under which the filter should be engaged.  This could be 
> called BranchingFilter.
> I think a MergingFilter, the inverse of BranchingFilter, is necessary in the 
> current pipeline architecture, to have a single pipeline endpoint.  A 
> MergingFilter might be useful in its own right, e.g. to collect document data 
> from multiple sources.  Perhaps a conditional merging facility would be 
> useful as well.

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