On Jul 19, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Nicolas Lalevée wrote:
Then I looked deeper in the Lucene file format, and I manage to
introduce some
generic field metadata without breaking the file format
compatibility. I just
used another bit of the "Bits" to mark that there is or not some
metadata on
the field. And the metadata is stored next to it :
DocFieldData --> FieldCount, <FieldNum, Bits, FieldMetadata,
Value>^FieldCount
FieldMetadata --> ValueSize, <Byte>^ValueSize
My thought is instead of providing an ever-lengthening fixed menu of
field-types to choose from, that the menu should be per-index and the
codec should be indicated by an integer pointing to a spot on that menu.
Does this feature interest the Lucene commiters ? Should I provide
a patch in
Jira? If not, is there any common place where to provide some patch
for some
Lucene hackers (ie not necessaraily commiters) ?
So, Marvin, could you provide your patch about payload ?
I'm totally slammed this month because I got a talk accepted at OSCON
late and so I'm taking an unexpected week off in the midst of a very
busy time. There is not a patch per se, in any case.
And is there a wiki page where there is a starting point about
defining the
future index format ?
http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/FlexibleIndexing
Best,
Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/
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