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Michael Busch commented on LUCENE-1290:
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Of course I don't want to remove something that adds real value to Lucene. IMO,
Hits does not. It is a class whose APIs we always discourage to use. Such a
class does not belong in the core. The HitCollector (especially
TopDocCollector) APIs are similar to use and offer more control, flexibility
and insight.
So I think we should deprecate Hits (it will still be part then of 2.4 and 2.9
and removed in 3.0). In the meantime, if people really think that there should
be a replacement for Hits in the future, we can develop a new helper class in
contib that doesn't have the drawbacks that Hits has, and contributors like Uwe
and Christian are very welcome to submit patches for that!
However, I don't want to make a decision here that is in conflict with opinions
of others, so maybe it might be a good idea to call a vote on java-dev about
this issue?
> Deprecate Hits
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>
> Key: LUCENE-1290
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1290
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Search
> Reporter: Michael Busch
> Assignee: Michael Busch
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.4
>
> Attachments: lucene-1290.patch, lucene-1290.patch
>
>
> The Hits class has several drawbacks as pointed out in LUCENE-954.
> The other search APIs that use TopDocCollector and TopDocs should be used
> instead.
> This patch:
> - deprecates org/apache/lucene/search/Hits, Hit, and HitIterator, as well as
> the Searcher.search( * ) methods which return a Hits Object.
> - removes all references to Hits from the core and uses TopDocs and ScoreDoc
> instead
> - Changes the demo SearchFiles: adds the two modes 'paging search' and
> 'streaming search',
> each of which demonstrating a different way of using the search APIs. The
> former
> uses TopDocs and a TopDocCollector, the latter a custom HitCollector
> implementation.
> - Updates the online tutorial that descibes the demo.
> All tests pass.
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