com.sun.labs.minion.indexer.entry
Interface MergeableEntry

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Comparable, Entry, IndexEntry

All Known Implementing Classes:

ClusterEntry, DocKeyEntry, FieldedDocKeyEntry, IDEntry, IDFreqEntry

public interface MergeableEntry
extends IndexEntry

Method Summary

void	merge(QueryEntry qe, int[] idMap) Merges postings from another entry into this one.

Methods inherited from interface com.sun.labs.minion.indexer.entry.IndexEntry

add, append, encodePostingsInfo, setID, setName, writePostings

Methods inherited from interface com.sun.labs.minion.indexer.entry.Entry

getEntry, getEntry, getID, getMaxFDT, getN, getName, getNumChannels, getPartition, getTotalOccurrences, setDictionary

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

merge

void merge(QueryEntry qe,
           int[] idMap)

Merges postings from another entry into this one.

Parameters:

qe - The entry that we want to append onto this one.

idMap - A map from old IDs in the given postings to new IDs with gaps removed for deleted data. If this is null, then there are no deleted documents.