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Paul Elschot commented on LUCENE-584: ------------------------------------- I had not thought about deprecating yet, but it should work nicely. I suppose you want to add a class BitSetFilter (subclass of Filter) as the preferred alternative to the deprecated method? Initially Filter and BitSetFilter would be very similar, except that Filter.bits() would be deprecated. Later, after removal of Filter.bits(), Filter.getMatcher() would be declared abstract. I tried to do something pretty close to this for contrib/xml-query-parser, but I could not make that work, which is why I changed to adding a new superclass MatchFilter. Nevertheless, I think the deprecation above should work, but at the moment I can't foresee the consequences. > Decouple Filter from BitSet > --------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-584 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-584 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Search > Affects Versions: 2.0.1 > Reporter: Peter Schäfer > Assignee: Michael Busch > Priority: Minor > Attachments: bench-diff.txt, bench-diff.txt, lucene-584.patch, > Matcher-20070905-2default.patch, Matcher-20070905-3core.patch, > Matcher-20071122-1ground.patch, Some Matchers.zip > > > {code} > package org.apache.lucene.search; > public abstract class Filter implements java.io.Serializable > { > public abstract AbstractBitSet bits(IndexReader reader) throws IOException; > } > public interface AbstractBitSet > { > public boolean get(int index); > } > {code} > It would be useful if the method =Filter.bits()= returned an abstract > interface, instead of =java.util.BitSet=. > Use case: there is a very large index, and, depending on the user's > privileges, only a small portion of the index is actually visible. > Sparsely populated =java.util.BitSet=s are not efficient and waste lots of > memory. It would be desirable to have an alternative BitSet implementation > with smaller memory footprint. > Though it _is_ possibly to derive classes from =java.util.BitSet=, it was > obviously not designed for that purpose. > That's why I propose to use an interface instead. The default implementation > could still delegate to =java.util.BitSet=. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]