Uwe Schindler created LUCENE-4315:
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Summary: Minor fixes for Fields abstract class, TermVectorsWriter
Key: LUCENE-4315
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4315
Project: Lucene - Core
Issue Type: Bug
Components: core/index
Affects Versions: 4.0-BETA
Reporter: Uwe Schindler
Assignee: Uwe Schindler
Fix For: 5.0, 4.0
The Fields abstract class is a little bit inconsistent. It does not allow
iterator() to throw IOException, but size() is allowed to do this. This is
inconsistent, as looping through iterator always returns size without
IOException.
Also Fields.size() allows -1 as return value, but almost all implementation
(only MultiFields and FieldFilteredAtomicReader may return -1). This is very
cheap statistics, we should rethink this:
- TermVectorsWriter's basic merging (without optimization requires this
information, also Terms.size())
- We can default Fields.size() to count iterator, if not explicitely
implemented. This method is called only by "IndexReader introspection) and
TermVectors merging.
We should maybe enforce size() for Fields to return a value >=0 (Preflex also
knows its size!), and if the impl class does not have it (MultiFields,
FieldFilteredAtomicReader, loop by supplying default impl).
The current patch still allows -1 as return value and removes IOException from
the signature.
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