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Simon Willnauer commented on LUCENE-2878:
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bq.  The only Span functionality that's missing I think is payload queries. If 
we want to have all the span functionality in here before it can land on trunk 
I can work on that next.

I really think we can skip that for now. 

bq. It would also be good to do some proper benchmarking. Do we already have 
something that can compare sets of queries?
We do have LuceneUtil but its not like straight forward. I will take a look 
what we can do here.

bq. Is it worth specialising here? Have two query types (or maybe just a flag 
on the query), so you can optimize for query speed or for scoring. SpanScorer 
always iterates over all spans, by comparison.

I think we should specialize the Scorere here. Visiting the least amount of 
intervals possible is maybe worth it.

So from my perspective what we should try exploring is making the scorer a 
DocsAndPosEnum in the branch and see if we can remove the Interval API mostly 
in favor of the DocsAndPos API. The only problem I have with this is really 
that if a given scorer consumes intervals from a subscorer it needs to buffer 
all those if it's parent needs all of them too. Not sure if it is worth it at 
this point. Ideally I would want to have DocsAndPosEnum to be folded into 
DocsEnum first too.
                
> Allow Scorer to expose positions and payloads aka. nuke spans 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2878
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2878
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/search
>    Affects Versions: Positions Branch
>            Reporter: Simon Willnauer
>            Assignee: Simon Willnauer
>              Labels: gsoc2011, gsoc2012, lucene-gsoc-11, lucene-gsoc-12, 
> mentor
>             Fix For: Positions Branch
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-2878-OR.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, 
> LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, 
> LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, 
> LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, 
> LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, 
> LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, 
> LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, LUCENE-2878.patch, 
> LUCENE-2878_trunk.patch, LUCENE-2878_trunk.patch, LUCENE-2878-vs-trunk.patch, 
> PosHighlighter.patch, PosHighlighter.patch
>
>
> Currently we have two somewhat separate types of queries, the one which can 
> make use of positions (mainly spans) and payloads (spans). Yet Span*Query 
> doesn't really do scoring comparable to what other queries do and at the end 
> of the day they are duplicating lot of code all over lucene. Span*Queries are 
> also limited to other Span*Query instances such that you can not use a 
> TermQuery or a BooleanQuery with SpanNear or anthing like that. 
> Beside of the Span*Query limitation other queries lacking a quiet interesting 
> feature since they can not score based on term proximity since scores doesn't 
> expose any positional information. All those problems bugged me for a while 
> now so I stared working on that using the bulkpostings API. I would have done 
> that first cut on trunk but TermScorer is working on BlockReader that do not 
> expose positions while the one in this branch does. I started adding a new 
> Positions class which users can pull from a scorer, to prevent unnecessary 
> positions enums I added ScorerContext#needsPositions and eventually 
> Scorere#needsPayloads to create the corresponding enum on demand. Yet, 
> currently only TermQuery / TermScorer implements this API and other simply 
> return null instead. 
> To show that the API really works and our BulkPostings work fine too with 
> positions I cut over TermSpanQuery to use a TermScorer under the hood and 
> nuked TermSpans entirely. A nice sideeffect of this was that the Position 
> BulkReading implementation got some exercise which now :) work all with 
> positions while Payloads for bulkreading are kind of experimental in the 
> patch and those only work with Standard codec. 
> So all spans now work on top of TermScorer ( I truly hate spans since today ) 
> including the ones that need Payloads (StandardCodec ONLY)!!  I didn't bother 
> to implement the other codecs yet since I want to get feedback on the API and 
> on this first cut before I go one with it. I will upload the corresponding 
> patch in a minute. 
> I also had to cut over SpanQuery.getSpans(IR) to 
> SpanQuery.getSpans(AtomicReaderContext) which I should probably do on trunk 
> first but after that pain today I need a break first :).
> The patch passes all core tests 
> (org.apache.lucene.search.highlight.HighlighterTest still fails but I didn't 
> look into the MemoryIndex BulkPostings API yet)

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