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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-5527:
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bq. I had initially thought about doing this change for 5.0 only but since the 
migration ends up being easy and since Collector is an experimental API, we 
could also have it for 4.8.

That surprised me that it was marked as "experimental"!  It's been around in 
it's current form for 3 years, and anyone doing anything "interesting" with 
Lucene would most likely be using it.  Perhaps this change should only be 
targeted toward trunk (5.0)?

> Make the Collector API work per-segment
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-5527
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5527
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Adrien Grand
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 5.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-5527.patch
>
>
> Spin-off of LUCENE-5299.
> LUCENE-5229 proposes different changes, some of them being controversial, but 
> there is one of them that I really really like that consists in refactoring 
> the {{Collector}} API in order to have a different Collector per segment.
> The idea is, instead of having a single Collector object that needs to be 
> able to take care of all segments, to have a top-level Collector:
> {code}
> public interface Collector {
>   AtomicCollector setNextReader(AtomicReaderContext context) throws 
> IOException;
>   
> }
> {code}
> and a per-AtomicReaderContext collector:
> {code}
> public interface AtomicCollector {
>   void setScorer(Scorer scorer) throws IOException;
>   void collect(int doc) throws IOException;
>   boolean acceptsDocsOutOfOrder();
> }
> {code}
> I think it makes the API clearer since it is now obious {{setScorer}} and 
> {{acceptDocsOutOfOrder}} need to be called after {{setNextReader}} which is 
> otherwise unclear.
> It also makes things more flexible. For example, a collector could much more 
> easily decide to use different strategies on different segments. In 
> particular, it makes the early-termination collector much cleaner since it 
> can return different atomic collectors implementations depending on whether 
> the current segment is sorted or not.
> Even if we have lots of collectors all over the place, we could make it 
> easier to migrate by having a Collector that would implement both Collector 
> and AtomicCollector, return {{this}} in setNextReader and make current 
> concrete Collector implementations extend this class instead of directly 
> extending Collector.



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