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Michael Busch commented on LUCENE-1290:
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FWIW, the Hits API was originally designed to support desktop applications,
with a scrollable pane of hits. I wonder if anyone ever actually used it that
way, and, if so, whether it worked well...
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That's how it was used in the SeartchFiles demo and it worked quite well for
this small tool.
But I believe in real-world apps Hits has quite a few drawbacks. For example,
it always
fetches 50 results and buffers them. This number is not configurable which it
should be
for performance reasons. Also, I think very often users need to implement their
own
HitCollector anyways, e. g. for duplication detected or security, and can't use
Hits then.
As the new demo shows, it is quite easy to implement paging without Hits, just
by using
TopDocs and TopDocCollector.
> Deprecate Hits
> --------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-1290
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1290
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Search
> Reporter: Michael Busch
> Assignee: Michael Busch
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.4
>
> Attachments: lucene-1290.patch
>
>
> The Hits class has several drawbacks as pointed out in LUCENE-954.
> The other search APIs that use TopDocCollector and TopDocs should be used
> instead.
> This patch:
> - deprecates org/apache/lucene/search/Hits, Hit, and HitIterator, as well as
> the Searcher.search( * ) methods which return a Hits Object.
> - removes all references to Hits from the core and uses TopDocs and ScoreDoc
> instead
> - Changes the demo SearchFiles: adds the two modes 'paging search' and
> 'streaming search',
> each of which demonstrating a different way of using the search APIs. The
> former
> uses TopDocs and a TopDocCollector, the latter a custom HitCollector
> implementation.
> - Updates the online tutorial that descibes the demo.
> All tests pass.
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