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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-4299:
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I would also clean up the merging and checkindex code too... thats the worst
and it would become a lot simpler here.
> No way to find term vectors options at read time
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> Key: LUCENE-4299
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4299
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Attachments: LUCENE-4299.patch
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> The problem is simple:
> # term vectors can be configured "per-field-per-document", meaning for the
> "body" field, document 0 can have them, document 1 maybe doesnt at all,
> document 2 maybe has offsets (no positions), and so on. To me this is not a
> useful feature at all, no one has ever mentioned a single use case for this,
> and it just makes our code more complicated. but it is what it is (for this
> issue)
> # there is no way to discover these options for a field of a document, you
> have to do things like 'peek ahead' to see the first position of the first
> term is -1, or same for offsets (except worse, we used to allow anything in
> offsets so -1 might be an actual value). This makes the merging code really
> hairy, and tough on end consumers.
> So I propose that instead of returning Terms for Vectors, we return
> VectorTerms (extends Terms), which just adds hasOffsets() and hasPositions().
> e.g. lucene40 already knows this from the bits for the field/doc pair and
> just returns what it knows.
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