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Dawid Weiss commented on LUCENE-7453:
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bq. I think docNum is a good improvement because it makes it sounds like we are
numbering the documents, not assigning a unique identifier to them.
Sorry, but this explanation is even more controversial and vague to me than
(what is "numbering" of documents?). I'd prefer simply explaining that
identifiers are persistent within an index segment (because they are), but
index segments can be merged and thus a document may be moved across index
segments over time, changing its per-segment identifier.
If we really wish to make loops like this not use the "id" naming:
{code}
for (int docId = 0, max = indexReader.maxDoc(); docId < max; docId++) {
// do something
}
{code}
then really {{docNum}} doesn't make it any better. Even {{docIndex}} seems
better to me; in fact, this "index" makes sense both at segment level (where
the index doesn't change) and at composite reader level (where the 'index' of a
document has a more complex semantics). If we make it clear document index is
volatile and is valid (and constant) only for the a opened reader, then this is
more clear to me.
{code}
for (int docIndex = 0, max = indexReader.maxDoc(); docIndex < max; docIndex++) {
// do something
}
{code}
> Change naming of variables/apis from docid to docnum
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-7453
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7453
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ryan Ernst
>
> In SOLR-9528 a suggestion was made to change {{docid}} to {{docnum}}. The
> reasoning for this is most notably that {{docid}} has a connotation about a
> persistent unique identifier (eg like {{_id}} in elasticsearch or {{id}} in
> solr), while {{docid}} in lucene is currently some local to a segment, and
> not comparable directly across segments.
> When I first started working on Lucene, I had this same confusion. {{docnum}}
> is a much better name for this transient, segment local identifier for a doc.
> Regardless of what solr wants to do in their api (eg keeping _docid_), I
> think we should switch the lucene apis and variable names to use docnum.
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