Re: question on design for ordering of field names written to FieldInfos object

[Doug Cutting <cu...@apache.org>]

Peter M Cipollone wrote:
> I have a question about the following code from
> org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentMerger.  I would like to know if the ordering
> of the fields as they are stored to the FieldInfos object is critical to
> some other purpose.
> 
> In the code below (from a week+/- ago CVS pull), the fields are stored in
> the following order:
> 1. fields indexed=true, termVectors=true
> 2. fields indexed=true, termVectors=false
> 3. fields stored=true, indexed=false

I don't think it is critical to any other purpose, but nor do I think 
one should require these to always be ordered the same way without a 
very good reason.  They didn't used to be ordered this way, and 
implementations of Lucene in other language might order them differently.

Doug



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Simple patch for broken link in javadoc of Weight.java

[Paul Elschot <pa...@xs4all.nl>]

Regards,
Paul


Index: search/Weight.java
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RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Weight.java,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 Weight.java
--- search/Weight.java	29 Mar 2004 22:48:04 -0000	1.3
+++ search/Weight.java	26 Jul 2004 16:55:40 -0000
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
  * <p>A Weight is constructed by a query, given a Searcher ({@link
  * Query#createWeight(Searcher)}).  The {@link #sumOfSquaredWeights()} method
  * is then called on the top-level query to compute the query normalization
- * factor (@link Similarity#queryNorm(float)}).  This factor is then passed to
+ * factor {@link Similarity#queryNorm(float)}.  This factor is then passed to
  * {@link #normalize(float)}.  At this point the weighting is complete and a
  * scorer may be constructed by calling {@link #scorer(IndexReader)}.
  */


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