On 03/08/2010 at 2:10 PM, Michael McCandless wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Steven A Rowe <sar...@syr.edu> wrote: > > On 03/08/2010 at 1:57 PM, Steven A Rowe wrote: > > > On 03/08/2010 at 1:13 PM, Michael McCandless wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Marvin Humphrey > > > > <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:07:18AM -0500, Michael McCandless > wrote: > > > > > > > What's the flex API for specifying a custom posting format? > > > > > > > > > > > > You implement a Codecs class, which within it knows about any > > > > > > number of Codec impls that it can retrieve by name. > > > > > > > > > > So you have both a class named "Codec" and a class named "Codecs"? > > > > > > > > > > Tell me, is this an array of Codecs or a Codecs? > > > > > > > > > > return codecs; > > > > > > > > Probably a Codecs instance ;) > > > > > > > > Yeah it's not ideal... maybe rename Codecs -> CodecProvider? > > > > CodecFactory? Codecs purpose is to 1) provide the Codec that'll > > > > write a new segment, and 2) lookup codecs by String name (when > > > > reading previously written segments). > > > > > > Some even less likely suggestions :) : CodecMap, CodecBroker, > > > CodecSteward, CodecCurator, CodecLibrary, CodecCatalog > > > > Or how about CodecMaster - master both in the sense of an original > from which copies are made, and in the sense of one having control. > > Well... it's not really a master in the first sense (like a master > key), ie, we don't copy it. We ask it to give us a Codec.
I was thinking that Codecs is like an algorithm - a set of procedures (codecs) that will reliably produce a desired result (though perhaps providing by-name access and one by-service access mechanism doesn't really qualify it as such). So the template/copying sense I was reaching for was from the perspective of access: each agent accessing an index would need to execute the algorithm / codec suite in the same way in order to properly deal with it. > And in the 2nd sense... I don't like that word sense (nor "slave") so > I try hard not to use these terms anymore. I get it, and I generally agree, though I was thinking *quarter*master - one having control over (inanimate) provisions. Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
