Pair-wise FST key comparator by ords [LUCENE-4562]
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Description
It would be useful to have an FST utility method to do a compare() operation between a key in one FST and a key in a second FST, by ords instead of the keys. So the input is the ord for FST1 and an ord for FST2 and the output is -1, 0, 1. The result is the same as if you were to do a Util.getByOutput for both ords against their respective FSTs then compare the resulting byte arrays.
The point of this is to speedup #4803 further, which impact sorting across segments. I would be surprised if it doesn't have applicability to other problems.
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Migrated from [LUCENE-4562](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4562) by David Smiley (@dsmiley), updated Nov 19 2012
Linked issues:
- #4803
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing FST utility APIs, especially Util.getByOutput, and the sorting-across-segments work in linked issue #4803. The change is complete when a utility compares entries from two FSTs by their ords and returns -1, 0, or 1 with the same ordering as comparing the corresponding byte-array keys.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
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- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100