Ryan Ernst created LUCENE-7453: ---------------------------------- Summary: Change naming of variables/apis from docid to docnum Key: LUCENE-7453 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7453 Project: Lucene - Core Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Ryan Ernst
In SOLR-9528 a suggestion was made to change {{docid}} to {{docnum}}. The reasoning for this is most notably that {{docid}} has a connotation about a persistent unique identifier (eg like {{_id}} in elasticsearch or {{id}} in solr), while {{docid}} in lucene is currently some local to a segment, and not comparable directly across segments. When I first started working on Lucene, I had this same confusion. {{docnum}} is a much better name for this transient, segment local identifier for a doc. Regardless of what solr wants to do in their api (eg keeping _docid_), I think we should switch the lucene apis and variable names to use docnum. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org