Package org.apache.lucene.codecs

Class FlatVectorsReader

java.lang.Object

org.apache.lucene.codecs.FlatVectorsReader

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable, AutoCloseable, Accountable

Direct Known Subclasses:

Lucene99FlatVectorsReader, Lucene99ScalarQuantizedVectorsReader

public abstract class FlatVectorsReader
extends Object
implements Closeable, Accountable

Reads vectors from an index. When searching this reader, it iterates every vector in the index and scores them

This class is useful when:

• the number of vectors is small
• when used along side some additional indexing structure that can be used to better search the vectors (like HNSW).

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.lucene.util.Accountable

NULL_ACCOUNTABLE

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	FlatVectorsReader()	Sole constructor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract void	checkIntegrity()	Checks consistency of this reader.
abstract ByteVectorValues	getByteVectorValues(String field)	Returns the ByteVectorValues for the given field.
abstract FloatVectorValues	getFloatVectorValues(String field)	Returns the FloatVectorValues for the given field.
abstract RandomVectorScorer	getRandomVectorScorer(String field, byte[] target)	Returns a RandomVectorScorer for the given field and target vector.
abstract RandomVectorScorer	getRandomVectorScorer(String field, float[] target)	Returns a RandomVectorScorer for the given field and target vector.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.lucene.util.Accountable

getChildResources, ramBytesUsed

Methods inherited from interface java.io.Closeable

close

Constructor Detail

FlatVectorsReader

protected FlatVectorsReader()

Sole constructor

Method Detail

getRandomVectorScorer

public abstract RandomVectorScorer getRandomVectorScorer(String field,
                                                         float[] target)
                                                  throws IOException

Returns a RandomVectorScorer for the given field and target vector.

Parameters:

field - the field to search

target - the target vector

Returns:

a RandomVectorScorer for the given field and target vector.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs when reading from the index.

getRandomVectorScorer

public abstract RandomVectorScorer getRandomVectorScorer(String field,
                                                         byte[] target)
                                                  throws IOException

Returns a RandomVectorScorer for the given field and target vector.

Parameters:

field - the field to search

target - the target vector

Returns:

a RandomVectorScorer for the given field and target vector.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs when reading from the index.

checkIntegrity

public abstract void checkIntegrity()
                             throws IOException

Checks consistency of this reader.

Note that this may be costly in terms of I/O, e.g. may involve computing a checksum value against large data files.

Throws:

IOException

NOTE: This API is for internal purposes only and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

getFloatVectorValues

public abstract FloatVectorValues getFloatVectorValues(String field)
                                                throws IOException

Returns the FloatVectorValues for the given field. The behavior is undefined if the given field doesn't have KNN vectors enabled on its FieldInfo. The return value is never null.

Throws:

IOException

getByteVectorValues

public abstract ByteVectorValues getByteVectorValues(String field)
                                              throws IOException

Returns the ByteVectorValues for the given field. The behavior is undefined if the given field doesn't have KNN vectors enabled on its FieldInfo. The return value is never null.

Throws:

IOException