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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-4132:
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I don't think we should add another Config object, making things complicated
for such a very very expert use case.
Even ordinary users need to use IWC, and 99% of them don't care about changing
things live.
I'm also nervous about documenting which things can/cannot be changed live
unless there are unit tests for each one.
If we want to refactor indexwriter in some way that really cleans it up, but
makes something "un-live", then I think
thats totally fair game and we should be able to do it, but the docs shouldnt
be wrong.
> IndexWriterConfig live settings
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>
> Key: LUCENE-4132
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4132
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Shai Erera
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.0, 5.0
>
>
> A while ago there was a discussion about making some IW settings "live" and I
> remember that RAM buffer size was one of them. Judging from IW code, I see
> that RAM buffer can be changed "live" as IW never caches it.
> However, I don't remember which other settings were decided to be "live" and
> I don't see any documentation in IW nor IWC for that. IW.getConfig mentions:
> {code}
> * <b>NOTE:</b> some settings may be changed on the
> * returned {@link IndexWriterConfig}, and will take
> * effect in the current IndexWriter instance. See the
> * javadocs for the specific setters in {@link
> * IndexWriterConfig} for details.
> {code}
> But there's no text on e.g. IWC.setRAMBuffer mentioning that.
> I think that it'd be good if we make it easier for users to tell which of the
> settings are "live" ones. There are few possible ways to do it:
> * Introduce a custom @live.setting tag on the relevant IWC.set methods, and
> add special text for them in build.xml
> ** Or, drop the tag and just document it clearly.
> * Separate IWC to two interfaces, LiveConfig and OneTimeConfig (name
> proposals are welcome !), have IWC impl both, and introduce another
> IW.getLiveConfig which will return that interface, thereby clearly letting
> the user know which of the settings are "live".
> It'd be good if IWC itself could only expose setXYZ methods for the "live"
> settings though. So perhaps, off the top of my head, we can do something like
> this:
> * Introduce a Config object, which is essentially what IWC is today, and pass
> it to IW.
> * IW will create a different object, IWC from that Config and IW.getConfig
> will return IWC.
> * IWC itself will only have setXYZ methods for the "live" settings.
> It adds another object, but user code doesn't change - it still creates a
> Config object when initializing IW, and need to handle a different type if it
> ever calls IW.getConfig.
> Maybe that's not such a bad idea?
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