[pylucene-dev] Solr's PrefixFilter

[Andi Vajda]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Julien Anguenot wrote:

>> A PyLucene user just submitted a patch to PyLucene to integrate Solr's
>> PrefixFilter class. PyLucene is not PySolr but it looks like
>> PrefixFilter has nothing specific to Solr in it and PrefixFilter could
>> be useful to regular Lucene users as well.
>>
>> Are there any objections to checking org.apache.solr.search.PrefixFilter
>> into Lucene's search package ? I could submit a patch, but codewise,
>> it's trivial enough to just rename the package it's in to
>> org.apache.lucene.search.
>>
>> What do you think ?
>
> I think I'd rather have it available apart until the PrefixFilter will
> be included to the Lucene core itself. Main reason is the fact that the
> reference API for PyLucene is the Lucene core. As well, It might confuse
> people, I guess, to find some third party code in PyLucene they can't
> find in the Java Lucene version.

I should clarify what the message I sent earlier was all about.

This message was sent to java-dev at lucene.apache.org to ask if the Java Lucene 
maintainers would consider moving PrefixFilter from Solr into the Lucene core.

I cc:'ed the message to pylucene-dev to keep us informed. Because of the 
various subscription requirements on both these lists, this cross-posting of 
mine has been rather unproductive since the cross-posting of the various 
replies is most likely failing to cross-post properly.

So far, two people on the Java Lucene developer list, among which the original 
author of PrefixFilter in Solr, have responded positively to my request. Let's 
hope this class gets added to the Java Lucene core soon so that it can become 
part of PyLucene without creating a frankenstein package.

Andi..