Hi Eric and Grant:
Thanks for the replies and this is certainly encouraging. As
suggested, I will post furthere such discussions to the dev list.
Thanks
-John
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:37:35 -0400, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems to me the answer to this is not necessarily to open up the API, but to
> provide a mechanism for adding Writers and Readers to the indexing/searching process
> at the application level. These readers and writers could be passed to Lucene and
> used to read and write to separate files (thus, not harming the index file format).
> They could be used to read/write an arbitrary amount of metadata at the term,
> document and/or index level w/o affecting the core Lucene index. Furthermore,
> previous versions could still work b/c they would just ignore the new files and the
> indexes could be used by other applications as well.
>
> This is just a thought in the infancy stage, but it seems like it would solve the
> problem. Of course, the trick is figuring out how it fits into the API (or maybe it
> becomes a part of 2.0). Not sure if it is even feasible, but it seems like you
> could define interfaces for Readers and Writers that met the requirements to do this.
>
> This may be better discussed on the dev list.
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/20/04 11:28AM >>>
>
>
> Hi:
> I am trying to store some Databased like field values into lucene.
> I have my own way of storing field values in a customized format.
>
> I guess my question is wheather we can make the Reader/Writer
> classes, e.g. FieldReader, FieldWriter, DocumentReader/Writer classes
> non-final?
>
> I have asked to make the Lucene API less restrictive many many many
> times but got no replies. Is this request feasible?
>
> Thanks
>
> -John
>
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