gate.creole.annic.apache.lucene.search
Interface FieldCache

public interface FieldCache

Expert: Maintains caches of term values.

Created: May 19, 2004 11:13:14 AM

Since:

lucene 1.4

Version:

$Id: FieldCache.java 529 2004-10-05 11:55:26Z niraj $

Author:

Tim Jones (Nacimiento Software)

Nested Class Summary

static class

FieldCache.StringIndex Expert: Stores term text values and document ordering data.

Field Summary

static FieldCache	DEFAULT Expert: The cache used internally by sorting and range query classes.
static int	STRING_INDEX Indicator for StringIndex values in the cache.

Method Summary

Object	getAuto(IndexReader reader, String field) Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found reads field to see if it contains integers, floats or strings, and then calls one of the other methods in this class to get the values.
Comparable[]	getCustom(IndexReader reader, String field, SortComparator comparator) Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found reads the terms out of field and calls the given SortComparator to get the sort values.
float[]	getFloats(IndexReader reader, String field) Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found, reads the terms in field as floats and returns an array of size reader.maxDoc() of the value each document has in the given field.
int[]	getInts(IndexReader reader, String field) Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found, reads the terms in field as integers and returns an array of size reader.maxDoc() of the value each document has in the given field.
FieldCache.StringIndex	getStringIndex(IndexReader reader, String field) Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found reads the term values in field and returns an array of them in natural order, along with an array telling which element in the term array each document uses.
String[]	getStrings(IndexReader reader, String field) Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found, reads the term values in field and returns an array of size reader.maxDoc() containing the value each document has in the given field.

Field Detail

STRING_INDEX

static final int STRING_INDEX

Indicator for StringIndex values in the cache.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

DEFAULT

static final FieldCache DEFAULT

Expert: The cache used internally by sorting and range query classes.

Method Detail

getInts

int[] getInts(IndexReader reader,
              String field)
              throws IOException

Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found, reads the terms in field as integers and returns an array of size reader.maxDoc() of the value each document has in the given field.

Parameters:

reader - Used to get field values.

field - Which field contains the integers.

Returns:

The values in the given field for each document.

Throws:

IOException - If any error occurs.

getFloats

float[] getFloats(IndexReader reader,
                  String field)
                  throws IOException

Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found, reads the terms in field as floats and returns an array of size reader.maxDoc() of the value each document has in the given field.

Parameters:

reader - Used to get field values.

field - Which field contains the floats.

Returns:

The values in the given field for each document.

Throws:

IOException - If any error occurs.

getStrings

String[] getStrings(IndexReader reader,
                    String field)
                    throws IOException

Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found, reads the term values in field and returns an array of size reader.maxDoc() containing the value each document has in the given field.

Parameters:

reader - Used to get field values.

field - Which field contains the strings.

Returns:

The values in the given field for each document.

Throws:

IOException - If any error occurs.

getStringIndex

FieldCache.StringIndex getStringIndex(IndexReader reader,
                                      String field)
                                      throws IOException

Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found reads the term values in field and returns an array of them in natural order, along with an array telling which element in the term array each document uses.

Parameters:

reader - Used to get field values.

field - Which field contains the strings.

Returns:

Array of terms and index into the array for each document.

Throws:

IOException - If any error occurs.

getAuto

Object getAuto(IndexReader reader,
               String field)
               throws IOException

Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found reads field to see if it contains integers, floats or strings, and then calls one of the other methods in this class to get the values. For string values, a StringIndex is returned. After calling this method, there is an entry in the cache for both type AUTO and the actual found type.

Parameters:

reader - Used to get field values.

field - Which field contains the values.

Returns:

int[], float[] or StringIndex.

Throws:

IOException - If any error occurs.

getCustom

Comparable[] getCustom(IndexReader reader,
                       String field,
                       SortComparator comparator)
                       throws IOException

Checks the internal cache for an appropriate entry, and if none is found reads the terms out of field and calls the given SortComparator to get the sort values. A hit in the cache will happen if reader, field, and comparator are the same (using equals()) as a previous call to this method.

Parameters:

reader - Used to get field values.

field - Which field contains the values.

comparator - Used to convert terms into something to sort by.

Returns:

Array of sort objects, one for each document.

Throws:

IOException - If any error occurs.