Allow to control how payloads are merged
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Key: LUCENE-1585
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1585
Project: Lucene - Java
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Index
Reporter: Michael Busch
Assignee: Michael Busch
Priority: Minor
Lucene handles backwards-compatibility of its data structures by
converting them from the old into the new formats during segment
merging.
Payloads are simply byte arrays in which users can store arbitrary
data. Applications that use payloads might want to convert the format
of their payloads in a similar fashion. Otherwise it's not easily
possible to ever change the encoding of a payload without reindexing.
So I propose to introduce a PayloadMerger class that the SegmentMerger
invokes to merge the payloads from multiple segments. Users can then
implement their own PayloadMerger to convert payloads from an old into
a new format.
In the future we need this kind of flexibility also for column-stride
fields (LUCENE-1231) and flexible indexing codecs.
In addition to that it would be nice if users could store version
information in the segments file. E.g. they could store "in segment _2
the term a:b uses payloads of format x.y".
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