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David Smiley commented on LUCENE-4285:
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I admit checked exceptions would have alerted me to my bug, but that doesn't
make the API any nicer -- I still need null checks littered through my FST user
code now. I don't know the FST internals but I'd be surprised to hear that
adding support for an empty FST adds appreciable overhead. If this "overhead"
we're discussing is a simple conditional check, then this is net-zero since as
it is I need these null checks on my end of the API due to my FST being
potentially null.
> Improve FST API usability for mere mortals
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> Key: LUCENE-4285
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4285
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core/FSTs
> Reporter: David Smiley
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> FST technology is something that has brought amazing advances to Lucene, yet
> the API is hard to use for the vast majority of users like me. I know that
> performance of FSTs is really important, but surely a lot can be done without
> sacrificing that.
> (comments will hold specific ideas and problems)
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