Improve FST API usability for mere mortals [LUCENE-4285]
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Description
FST technology is something that has brought amazing advances to Lucene, yet the API is hard to use for the vast majority of users like me. I know that performance of FSTs is really important, but surely a lot can be done without sacrificing that.
(comments will hold specific ideas and problems)
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Migrated from [LUCENE-4285](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4285) by David Smiley (@dsmiley), 1 vote, updated Oct 08 2012
Attachments: [LUCENE-4285.patch](https://apache.github.io/lucene-jira-archive/attachments/LUCENE-4285/LUCENE-4285.patch)
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Research direction
Start by reading the issue discussion for the specific FST API ideas and problems mentioned in the comments, then inspect the attached LUCENE-4285.patch and the migrated JIRA issue. Before coding, identify a concrete usability change with an agreed scope and clear completion criteria; the issue body alone does not name files or tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- backend-api-design, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100