Hello everyone, Recently I've watched a few videos and read a few blog posts on Lucene's Automata and how one can speed up things by 100x when properly using Automata and Transducers. "I can definitely use a boost like this", right? The problem is that this material I've read was writen to Lucene 4 and it seems the API has changes a lot since then.
To beggin with, *I can't find transducers* anywhere and I'm missing a few Automata construction capabilities such as union (it used to be located on the class BasicOperations). I think what I am really missing is an intro to Automata classes on Lucene 6. *Can someone point me to a link introducing Automata (and possibly Transducers) on Lucene 6?* So far I've been learning by navigating java docs with ctrl + F, which hasn't been productive: It took me a while to figure out I had to use a AutomatonRun to check that the automaton accepts a given char sequence. And before that I had tried to manually start from node 0 and manually traverse the Automata and check for a final state at the end of a String. I'd really appreciate some guidance here. I'd like to read something written by who designed these classes. What motivated, usage examples, what it is good for and what it is not good for. Maybe a history of the development of Automata on Lucene. Where they built for in-memory usage only? Is there a good way to go about serializing it? If possible, I'd like some explanation on the mad pointers structure used to efficiently implement automata. From the videos I watched I was expecting a byte[] implementation, but looking at the code I see a couple of int[] used to represent states and transitions. What happened to the byte[] implementation of Lucene 4? -- Juarez
