Shai Erera created LUCENE-4620:
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Summary: Explore IntEncoder/Decoder bulk API
Key: LUCENE-4620
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4620
Project: Lucene - Core
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: modules/facet
Reporter: Shai Erera
Today, IntEncoder/Decoder offer a streaming API, where you can encode(int) and
decode(int). Originally, we believed that this layer can be useful for other
scenarios, but in practice it's used only for writing/reading the category
ordinals from payload/DV.
Therefore, Mike and I would like to explore a bulk API, something like
encode(IntsRef, BytesRef) and decode(BytesRef, IntsRef). Perhaps the Encoder
can still be streaming (as we don't know in advance how many ints will be
written), dunno. Will figure this out as we go.
One thing to check is whether the bulk API can work w/ e.g. facet associations,
which can write arbitrary byte[], and so may decoding to an IntsRef won't make
sense. This too we'll figure out as we go. I don't rule out that associations
will use a different bulk API.
At the end of the day, the requirement is for someone to be able to configure
how ordinals are written (i.e. different encoding schemes: VInt, PackedInts
etc.) and later read, with as little overhead as possible.
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