Change StandardTermsDictWriter to work with streaming and append-only
filesystems
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Key: LUCENE-2373
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2373
Project: Lucene - Java
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Index
Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
Fix For: 3.1
Since early 2.x times Lucene used a skip/seek/write trick to patch the length
of the terms dict into a place near the start of the output data file. This
however made it impossible to use Lucene with append-only filesystems such as
HDFS.
In the post-flex trunk the following code in StandardTermsDictWriter initiates
this:
{code}
// Count indexed fields up front
CodecUtil.writeHeader(out, CODEC_NAME, VERSION_CURRENT);
out.writeLong(0); // leave space for end index
pointer
{code}
and completes this in close():
{code}
out.seek(CodecUtil.headerLength(CODEC_NAME));
out.writeLong(dirStart);
{code}
I propose to change this layout so that this pointer is stored simply at the
end of the file. It's always 8 bytes long, and we known the final length of the
file from Directory, so it's a single additional seek(length - 8) to read it,
which is not much considering the benefits.
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