org.apache.lucene.codecs
Class PostingsWriterBase

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.lucene.codecs.PostingsConsumer
      org.apache.lucene.codecs.PostingsWriterBase

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable

Direct Known Subclasses:

Lucene41PostingsWriter

public abstract class PostingsWriterBase
extends PostingsConsumer
implements Closeable

Extension of PostingsConsumer to support pluggable term dictionaries.

This class contains additional hooks to interact with the provided term dictionaries such as BlockTreeTermsWriter. If you want to re-use an existing implementation and are only interested in customizing the format of the postings list, extend this class instead.

See Also:

PostingsReaderBase

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

Constructor Summary

protected

PostingsWriterBase() Sole constructor.

Method Summary

abstract void	close()
abstract void	finishTerm(TermStats stats) Finishes the current term.
abstract void	flushTermsBlock(int start, int count) Flush count terms starting at start "backwards", as a block.
abstract void	setField(FieldInfo fieldInfo) Called when the writing switches to another field.
abstract void	start(IndexOutput termsOut) Called once after startup, before any terms have been added.
abstract void	startTerm() Start a new term.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.codecs.PostingsConsumer

addPosition, finishDoc, merge, startDoc

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PostingsWriterBase

protected PostingsWriterBase()

Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.)

Method Detail

start

public abstract void start(IndexOutput termsOut)
                    throws IOException

Called once after startup, before any terms have been added. Implementations typically write a header to the provided termsOut.

Throws:

IOException

startTerm

public abstract void startTerm()
                        throws IOException

Start a new term. Note that a matching call to finishTerm(TermStats) is done, only if the term has at least one document.

Throws:

IOException

flushTermsBlock

public abstract void flushTermsBlock(int start,
                                     int count)
                              throws IOException

Flush count terms starting at start "backwards", as a block. start is a negative offset from the end of the terms stack, ie bigger start means further back in the stack.

Throws:

IOException

finishTerm

public abstract void finishTerm(TermStats stats)
                         throws IOException

Finishes the current term. The provided TermStats contains the term's summary statistics.

Throws:

IOException

setField

public abstract void setField(FieldInfo fieldInfo)

Called when the writing switches to another field.

close

public abstract void close()
                    throws IOException

Specified by:

close in interface Closeable

Throws:

IOException