Grant, Do you have a proposal in mind? It would help to suggest something like some classes and methods to help understand an alternative to what is being discussed.
-J On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote: > I realize we aren't adding read functionality to the Writer, but it would > be coupling the Writer to the Reader nonetheless. I understand it is > brainstorming (like I said, not trying to distract from the discussion), > just saying that if the Reader and the Writer both need access to the > underlying data structures, then we should refactor to make that possible, > not just glom the Reader onto the Writer. I suspect if that is done, > anyway, that it may make the bigger picture a bit clearer, too. > > > On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Michael McCandless wrote: > > >> Grant Ingersoll wrote: >> >> We've spent a lot of time up until now getting write functionality out of >>> the Reader, and now we are going to add read functionality into the Writer? >>> >> >> Well... we're not really adding read functionality into IW; instead, >> we are asking IW to open the reader for us, except the reader is >> provided the SegmentInfos it should use from IW (instead of trying to >> find the latest segments_N file in the Directory). >> >> Ie, what IW.getReader returns is an otherwise normal >> MultiSegmentReader. >> >> The goal is to allow an IndexReader to access segments flushed but >> not yet committed by IW. These segments are normally "private" to IW, >> in memory in its SegmentInfos instance. >> >> And this is all just thinking-out-loud-brainstorming. There are still >> many >> details to work through... >> >> Mike >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
