org.apache.lucene.search.join
Class BlockJoinCollector

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.apache.lucene.search.Collector
      extended by org.apache.lucene.search.join.BlockJoinCollector

public class BlockJoinCollector
extends Collector

Collects parent document hits for a Query containing one more more BlockJoinQuery clauses, sorted by the specified parent Sort. Note that this cannot perform arbitrary joins; rather, it requires that all joined documents are indexed as a doc block (using IndexWriter.addDocuments(java.util.Collection) or IndexWriter.updateDocuments(org.apache.lucene.index.Term, java.util.Collection)). Ie, the join is computed at index time.

The parent Sort must only use fields from the parent documents; sorting by field in the child documents is not supported.

You should only use this collector if one or more of the clauses in the query is a BlockJoinQuery. This collector will find those query clauses and record the matching child documents for the top scoring parent documents.

Multiple joins (star join) and nested joins and a mix of the two are allowed, as long as in all cases the documents corresponding to a single row of each joined parent table were indexed as a doc block.

For the simple star join you can retrieve the TopGroups instance containing each BlockJoinQuery's matching child documents for the top parent groups, using getTopGroups(org.apache.lucene.search.join.BlockJoinQuery, org.apache.lucene.search.Sort, int, int, int, boolean). Ie, a single query, which will contain two or more BlockJoinQuery's as clauses representing the star join, can then retrieve two or more TopGroups instances.

For nested joins, the query will run correctly (ie, match the right parent and child documents), however, because TopGroups is currently unable to support nesting (each group is not able to hold another TopGroups), you are only able to retrieve the TopGroups of the first join. The TopGroups of the nested joins will not be correct. See org.apache.lucene.search.join for a code sample.

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

Constructor Summary
BlockJoinCollector(Sort sort, int numParentHits, boolean trackScores, boolean trackMaxScore)
           
 
Method Summary
 boolean acceptsDocsOutOfOrder()
          Return true if this collector does not require the matching docIDs to be delivered in int sort order (smallest to largest) to Collector.collect(int).
 void collect(int parentDoc)
          Called once for every document matching a query, with the unbased document number.
 TopGroups<Integer> getTopGroups(BlockJoinQuery query, Sort withinGroupSort, int offset, int maxDocsPerGroup, int withinGroupOffset, boolean fillSortFields)
          Return the TopGroups for the specified BlockJoinQuery.
 void setNextReader(IndexReader reader, int docBase)
          Called before collecting from each IndexReader.
 void setScorer(Scorer scorer)
          Called before successive calls to Collector.collect(int).
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

BlockJoinCollector

public BlockJoinCollector(Sort sort,
                          int numParentHits,
                          boolean trackScores,
                          boolean trackMaxScore)
                   throws IOException
Throws:
IOException
Method Detail

collect

public void collect(int parentDoc)
             throws IOException
Description copied from class: Collector
Called once for every document matching a query, with the unbased document number.

Note: This is called in an inner search loop. For good search performance, implementations of this method should not call Searcher.doc(int) or IndexReader.document(int) on every hit. Doing so can slow searches by an order of magnitude or more.

Specified by:
collect in class Collector
Throws:
IOException

setNextReader

public void setNextReader(IndexReader reader,
                          int docBase)
                   throws IOException
Description copied from class: Collector
Called before collecting from each IndexReader. All doc ids in Collector.collect(int) will correspond to reader. Add docBase to the current IndexReaders internal document id to re-base ids in Collector.collect(int).

Specified by:
setNextReader in class Collector
Parameters:
reader - next IndexReader
Throws:
IOException

acceptsDocsOutOfOrder

public boolean acceptsDocsOutOfOrder()
Description copied from class: Collector
Return true if this collector does not require the matching docIDs to be delivered in int sort order (smallest to largest) to Collector.collect(int).

Most Lucene Query implementations will visit matching docIDs in order. However, some queries (currently limited to certain cases of BooleanQuery) can achieve faster searching if the Collector allows them to deliver the docIDs out of order.

Many collectors don't mind getting docIDs out of order, so it's important to return true here.

Specified by:
acceptsDocsOutOfOrder in class Collector

setScorer

public void setScorer(Scorer scorer)
Description copied from class: Collector
Called before successive calls to Collector.collect(int). Implementations that need the score of the current document (passed-in to Collector.collect(int)), should save the passed-in Scorer and call scorer.score() when needed.

Specified by:
setScorer in class Collector

getTopGroups

public TopGroups<Integer> getTopGroups(BlockJoinQuery query,
                                       Sort withinGroupSort,
                                       int offset,
                                       int maxDocsPerGroup,
                                       int withinGroupOffset,
                                       boolean fillSortFields)
                                throws IOException
Return the TopGroups for the specified BlockJoinQuery. The groupValue of each GroupDocs will be the parent docID for that group. Note that the GroupDocs.totalHits, which would be the total number of child documents matching that parent, is not computed (will always be 0). Returns null if no groups matched.

Throws:
IOException


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