org.apache.lucene.index
Class MergePolicy

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.lucene.index.MergePolicy

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable, Cloneable

Direct Known Subclasses:

LogMergePolicy, NoMergePolicy, TieredMergePolicy, UpgradeIndexMergePolicy

public abstract class MergePolicy
extends Object
implements Closeable, Cloneable

Expert: a MergePolicy determines the sequence of primitive merge operations.

Whenever the segments in an index have been altered by IndexWriter, either the addition of a newly flushed segment, addition of many segments from addIndexes* calls, or a previous merge that may now need to cascade, IndexWriter invokes findMerges(org.apache.lucene.index.MergePolicy.MergeTrigger, org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos) to give the MergePolicy a chance to pick merges that are now required. This method returns a MergePolicy.MergeSpecification instance describing the set of merges that should be done, or null if no merges are necessary. When IndexWriter.forceMerge is called, it calls findForcedMerges(SegmentInfos,int,Map) and the MergePolicy should then return the necessary merges.

Note that the policy can return more than one merge at a time. In this case, if the writer is using SerialMergeScheduler, the merges will be run sequentially but if it is using ConcurrentMergeScheduler they will be run concurrently.

The default MergePolicy is TieredMergePolicy.

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

Nested Class Summary

static class	MergePolicy.MergeAbortedException Thrown when a merge was explicity aborted because IndexWriter.close(boolean) was called with false.
static class	MergePolicy.MergeException Exception thrown if there are any problems while executing a merge.
static class	MergePolicy.MergeSpecification A MergeSpecification instance provides the information necessary to perform multiple merges.
static class	MergePolicy.MergeTrigger MergeTrigger is passed to findMerges(MergeTrigger, SegmentInfos) to indicate the event that triggered the merge.
static class	MergePolicy.OneMerge OneMerge provides the information necessary to perform an individual primitive merge operation, resulting in a single new segment.

Field Summary

protected SetOnce<IndexWriter>

writer IndexWriter that contains this instance.

Constructor Summary

MergePolicy()
Creates a new merge policy instance.

Method Summary

MergePolicy	clone()
abstract void	close() Release all resources for the policy.
abstract MergePolicy.MergeSpecification	findForcedDeletesMerges(SegmentInfos segmentInfos) Determine what set of merge operations is necessary in order to expunge all deletes from the index.
abstract MergePolicy.MergeSpecification	findForcedMerges(SegmentInfos segmentInfos, int maxSegmentCount, Map<SegmentInfoPerCommit,Boolean> segmentsToMerge) Determine what set of merge operations is necessary in order to merge to <= the specified segment count.
abstract MergePolicy.MergeSpecification	findMerges(MergePolicy.MergeTrigger mergeTrigger, SegmentInfos segmentInfos) Determine what set of merge operations are now necessary on the index.
void	setIndexWriter(IndexWriter writer) Sets the IndexWriter to use by this merge policy.
abstract boolean	useCompoundFile(SegmentInfos segments, SegmentInfoPerCommit newSegment) Returns true if a new segment (regardless of its origin) should use the compound file format.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

writer

protected SetOnce<IndexWriter> writer

IndexWriter that contains this instance.

Constructor Detail

MergePolicy

public MergePolicy()

Creates a new merge policy instance. Note that if you intend to use it without passing it to IndexWriter, you should call setIndexWriter(IndexWriter).

Method Detail

clone

public MergePolicy clone()

Overrides:

clone in class Object

setIndexWriter

public void setIndexWriter(IndexWriter writer)

Sets the IndexWriter to use by this merge policy. This method is allowed to be called only once, and is usually set by IndexWriter. If it is called more than once, SetOnce.AlreadySetException is thrown.

See Also:

SetOnce

findMerges

public abstract MergePolicy.MergeSpecification findMerges(MergePolicy.MergeTrigger mergeTrigger,
                                                          SegmentInfos segmentInfos)
                                                   throws IOException

Determine what set of merge operations are now necessary on the index. IndexWriter calls this whenever there is a change to the segments. This call is always synchronized on the IndexWriter instance so only one thread at a time will call this method.

Parameters:

mergeTrigger - the event that triggered the merge

segmentInfos - the total set of segments in the index

Throws:

IOException

findForcedMerges

public abstract MergePolicy.MergeSpecification findForcedMerges(SegmentInfos segmentInfos,
                                                                int maxSegmentCount,
                                                                Map<SegmentInfoPerCommit,Boolean> segmentsToMerge)
                                                         throws IOException

Determine what set of merge operations is necessary in order to merge to <= the specified segment count. IndexWriter calls this when its IndexWriter.forceMerge(int) method is called. This call is always synchronized on the IndexWriter instance so only one thread at a time will call this method.

Parameters:

segmentInfos - the total set of segments in the index

maxSegmentCount - requested maximum number of segments in the index (currently this is always 1)

segmentsToMerge - contains the specific SegmentInfo instances that must be merged away. This may be a subset of all SegmentInfos. If the value is True for a given SegmentInfo, that means this segment was an original segment present in the to-be-merged index; else, it was a segment produced by a cascaded merge.

Throws:

IOException

findForcedDeletesMerges

public abstract MergePolicy.MergeSpecification findForcedDeletesMerges(SegmentInfos segmentInfos)
                                                                throws IOException

Determine what set of merge operations is necessary in order to expunge all deletes from the index.

Parameters:

segmentInfos - the total set of segments in the index

Throws:

IOException

close

public abstract void close()

Release all resources for the policy.

Specified by:

close in interface Closeable

useCompoundFile

public abstract boolean useCompoundFile(SegmentInfos segments,
                                        SegmentInfoPerCommit newSegment)
                                 throws IOException

Returns true if a new segment (regardless of its origin) should use the compound file format.

Throws:

IOException