On Dec 23, 2005, at 5:00 AM, Steven Pannell wrote:
Can someone please tell my why the Document class has no interface
and is
final?
Primarily because Lucene controls the construction of Document
instances returned from Hits.
I want to create some documents that have some standard fields (eg:
creation
date), and I don't want to keep repeating my code. This way I
ensure some
standard conventions in all my documents.
You could ensure this by writing a wrapping method or class that
creates Documents for you.
What's the reason behind this? What's the argument against making an
interface and not having the document final?
How would Lucene reconstruct the Document instance from Hits using
your own implementation?
Erik
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