ChrisHegarty commented on code in PR #13200:
URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/13200#discussion_r1548185076
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lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/ByteVectorProvider.java:
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@@ -33,6 +34,29 @@ public interface ByteVectorProvider {
*/
int dimension();
+ /**
+ * Returns the byte offset of the byte vector value for the given target
ordinal.
+ *
+ * @param targetOrd the ordinal of the target vector
+ * @return the byte offset of the byte vector value, or -1 if the offset
isn't available.
+ */
+ default long vectorByteOffset(int targetOrd) throws IOException {
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ /** Returns the byte length of the byte vector value. */
+ default int vectorElementByteSize() {
+ return dimension();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the {@link IndexInput} for the byte vector data or null if the
data is not stored in a
+ * file.
+ */
+ default IndexInput vectorData() throws IOException {
Review Comment:
I think that these three methods are exactly what we need. The IndexInput
will start at the beginning of the actual vector data, and with the offset and
element size, we can determine the address of any vector ordinal.
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