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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-2649: --------------------------------------- bq. Hmm... I'd rather make an exception to 3.x, ie, allow the addition of this method to the interface, than confuse the 4.x API, going forward, with 2 classes? Same here, we already defined the FieldCache "interface" as subject to change. Mabye we should simply remove it in trunk and only have a class? This interface was never of any use, because you were not able to supply any other field cache implementation (the DEFAULT field is *final* because all fields in interfaces are defined as *final* by the Java Language Spec. > FieldCache should include a BitSet for matching docs > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-2649 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2649 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Ryan McKinley > Fix For: 4.0 > > Attachments: LUCENE-2649-FieldCacheWithBitSet.patch, > LUCENE-2649-FieldCacheWithBitSet.patch, > LUCENE-2649-FieldCacheWithBitSet.patch, > LUCENE-2649-FieldCacheWithBitSet.patch, LUCENE-2649-FieldCacheWithBitSet.patch > > > The FieldCache returns an array representing the values for each doc. > However there is no way to know if the doc actually has a value. > This should be changed to return an object representing the values *and* a > BitSet for all valid docs. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org