Re: Automata and Transducer on Lucene 6

2017-04-19 Thread Chris Hostetter
: pairs). It is this kind of : "high-level goal" I asked about. Your answer only adds to the mystery: https://people.apache.org/~hossman/#xyproblem XY Problem Your question appears to be an "XY Problem" ... that is: you are dealing with "X", you are assuming "Y" will help you, and you are asking

Re: Automata and Transducer on Lucene 6

2017-04-19 Thread Dawid Weiss
> Dawid, the thing is that I am not even sure that Automata are the perfect > fit for my project and I thought some literature on it would help me decide > whether to use it or not. Still looks to me like you're approaching the problem from the wrong side or don't want to share the core problem wh

Re: Automata and Transducer on Lucene 6

2017-04-19 Thread Juarez Sampaio
Thanks for the reply everyone! I've spent some time looking at tests and source code and I've learned a lot about Lucene's Automata and FST. Way more productive than scanning javadocs. Thanks for the hint. *> Are you looking for a historical book on Lucene development or are you* *> looking to so