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Tony Xu commented on LUCENE-9326:
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Hi Alan,
I landed here because of this PR
[https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/1537/files]
It reminds me an issue[1] that I reported while working on our in-house
application that manages sorting ourselves. This means we want to only read the
values. However, reading the values of a SortField needs to go through
FieldComparator which in most of the cases maintain a priority queue (allocate
storage).
Maybe this is not directly relevant to what you're trying to solve but linking
it here for awareness.
[1]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8878
> Refactor SortField to better handle extensions
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-9326
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9326
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Alan Woodward
> Assignee: Alan Woodward
> Priority: Major
>
> Working on LUCENE-9325 has made me realize that SortField needs some serious
> reworking:
> * we have a bunch of hard-coded types, but also a number of custom
> extensions, which make implementing new sort orders complicated in
> non-obvious ways
> * we refer to these hard-coded types in a number of places, in particular in
> index sorts, which means that you can't use a 'custom' sort here. For
> example, I can see it would be very useful to be able to index sort by
> distance from a particular point, but that's not currently possible.
> * the API separates out the comparator and whether or not it should be
> reversed, which adds an extra layer of complication to its use, particularly
> in cases where we have multiple sortfields.
> The whole thing could do with an overhaul. I think this can be broken up
> into a few stages by adding a new superclass abstraction which `SortField`
> will extend, and gradually moving functionality into this superclass. I plan
> on starting with index sorting, which will require a sort field to a) be able
> to merge sort documents coming from a list of readers, and b) serialize
> itself to and deserialize itself from SegmentInfo
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