Greets,
While working on an expanded Tutorial, I had occasion to reconsider
the InvIndex constructors and their corresponding factory methods in
Schema.
It occurred to me that...
* create() was not very useful.
* We needed a variant with these semantics: "open an index if
one exists, otherwise create a new one".
So, the following changes have been made.
* create() has been zapped.
* The behavior of open() has changed slightly. It used to throw
an error if it couldn't find an index; now it will create a
new one instead.
* A new method, read(), has been added. It behaves exactly like
open() used to.
Existing indexing applications only need change if they are using
create().
Existing search applications need not change unless they're doing
something esoteric like catching the error thrown by open().
New search applications should prefer read() over open() as it will
throw an appropriate error when supplied with an invalid index location.
my $searcher = KinoSearch::Searcher->new(
invindex => MySchema->read('/path/to/index'),
);
Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/
While working on an expanded Tutorial, I had occasion to reconsider
the InvIndex constructors and their corresponding factory methods in
Schema.
It occurred to me that...
* create() was not very useful.
* We needed a variant with these semantics: "open an index if
one exists, otherwise create a new one".
So, the following changes have been made.
* create() has been zapped.
* The behavior of open() has changed slightly. It used to throw
an error if it couldn't find an index; now it will create a
new one instead.
* A new method, read(), has been added. It behaves exactly like
open() used to.
Existing indexing applications only need change if they are using
create().
Existing search applications need not change unless they're doing
something esoteric like catching the error thrown by open().
New search applications should prefer read() over open() as it will
throw an appropriate error when supplied with an invalid index location.
my $searcher = KinoSearch::Searcher->new(
invindex => MySchema->read('/path/to/index'),
);
Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/