Karl: it sounds like you are just refering to using the lucene docid as an array index for the FieldCache of your "MyID" field ... that's a perfectly valid use of the docid, the key being that you aren't expecting the id to contain any meaningful data itself -- it's just a refrence number.
: > if you are trying to think of Lucene's docid as a meaningful : > number, you : > are doing something wrong. : : There is this one place where I use it. The index is add only, and : the only data that interests me is the stored field MyID, also kept : track in an int[docid]. In case of index operation that change docid, : I simply repopulate the int[]. : : I throw this MyID value around quite a bit, starting in the hit : collector. It save me time from deserializing all hits. : : Is this reasonable? -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
