## org.apache.lucene.search
Class CachingCollector

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.search.Collector
          org.apache.lucene.search.CachingCollector

    public abstract class CachingCollector

extends Collector

Caches all docs, and optionally also scores, coming from a search, and is then able to replay them to another collector. You specify the max RAM this class may use. Once the collection is done, call `isCached()`. If this returns true, you can use `replay(org.apache.lucene.search.Collector)` against a new collector. If it returns false, this means too much RAM was required and you must instead re-run the original search.

NOTE: this class consumes 4 (or 8 bytes, if scoring is cached) per collected document. If the result set is large this can easily be a very substantial amount of RAM!

NOTE: this class caches at least 128 documents before checking RAM limits.

See the Lucene `contrib/grouping` module for more details including a full code example.

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

Field Summary
`protected int` `base`
`protected List<int[]>` `cachedDocs`
`protected List<org.apache.lucene.search.CachingCollector.SegStart>` `cachedSegs`
`protected int[]` `curDocs`
`protected int` `lastDocBase`
`protected int` `maxDocsToCache`
`protected Collector` `other`
`protected int` `upto`

Method Summary
`boolean` `acceptsDocsOutOfOrder()` Return `true` if this collector does not require the matching docIDs to be delivered in int sort order (smallest to largest) to `Collector.collect(int)`.
`static CachingCollector` `create(boolean acceptDocsOutOfOrder, boolean cacheScores, double maxRAMMB)` Creates a `CachingCollector` which does not wrap another collector.
`static CachingCollector` `create(Collector other, boolean cacheScores, double maxRAMMB)` Create a new `CachingCollector` that wraps the given collector and caches documents and scores up to the specified RAM threshold.
`static CachingCollector` `create(Collector other, boolean cacheScores, int maxDocsToCache)` Create a new `CachingCollector` that wraps the given collector and caches documents and scores up to the specified max docs threshold.
`boolean` `isCached()`
`abstract void` `replay(Collector other)` Replays the cached doc IDs (and scores) to the given Collector.
`void` `setNextReader(IndexReader reader, int docBase)` Called before collecting from each IndexReader.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.Collector
`collect, setScorer`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Field Detail

### other

    protected final Collector other

### maxDocsToCache

    protected final int maxDocsToCache

### cachedSegs

    protected final List<org.apache.lucene.search.CachingCollector.SegStart> cachedSegs

### cachedDocs

    protected final List<int[]> cachedDocs

### curDocs

    protected int[] curDocs

### upto

    protected int upto

### base

    protected int base

### lastDocBase

    protected int lastDocBase

Method Detail

### create

    public static CachingCollector create(boolean acceptDocsOutOfOrder,
                                          boolean cacheScores,
                                          double maxRAMMB)

  Creates a `CachingCollector` which does not wrap another collector. The cached documents and scores can later be `replayed`.

  Parameters:
    `acceptDocsOutOfOrder` - whether documents are allowed to be collected out-of-order

### create

    public static CachingCollector create(Collector other,
                                          boolean cacheScores,
                                          double maxRAMMB)

  Create a new `CachingCollector` that wraps the given collector and caches documents and scores up to the specified RAM threshold.

  Parameters:
    `other` - the Collector to wrap and delegate calls to.
    `cacheScores` - whether to cache scores in addition to document IDs. Note that this increases the RAM consumed per doc
    `maxRAMMB` - the maximum RAM in MB to consume for caching the documents and scores. If the collector exceeds the threshold, no documents and scores are cached.

### create

    public static CachingCollector create(Collector other,
                                          boolean cacheScores,
                                          int maxDocsToCache)

  Create a new `CachingCollector` that wraps the given collector and caches documents and scores up to the specified max docs threshold.

  Parameters:
    `other` - the Collector to wrap and delegate calls to.
    `cacheScores` - whether to cache scores in addition to document IDs. Note that this increases the RAM consumed per doc
    `maxDocsToCache` - the maximum number of documents for caching the documents and possible the scores. If the collector exceeds the threshold, no documents and scores are cached.

### acceptsDocsOutOfOrder

    public boolean acceptsDocsOutOfOrder()

  Description copied from class: `Collector`
  Return `true` if this collector does not require the matching docIDs to be delivered in int sort order (smallest to largest) to `Collector.collect(int)`.

  Most Lucene Query implementations will visit matching docIDs in order. However, some queries (currently limited to certain cases of `BooleanQuery`) can achieve faster searching if the `Collector` allows them to deliver the docIDs out of order.

  Many collectors don't mind getting docIDs out of order, so it's important to return `true` here.

  Specified by:
    `acceptsDocsOutOfOrder` in class `Collector`

### isCached

    public boolean isCached()

### setNextReader

    public void setNextReader(IndexReader reader,
                              int docBase)
                       throws IOException

  Description copied from class: `Collector`
  Called before collecting from each IndexReader. All doc ids in `Collector.collect(int)` will correspond to reader. Add docBase to the current IndexReaders internal document id to re-base ids in `Collector.collect(int)`.

  Specified by:
    `setNextReader` in class `Collector`
  Parameters:
    `reader` - next IndexReader
  Throws:
    `IOException`

### replay

    public abstract void replay(Collector other)
                         throws IOException

  Replays the cached doc IDs (and scores) to the given Collector. If this instance does not cache scores, then Scorer is not set on `other.setScorer` as well as scores are not replayed.

  Throws:
    `IllegalStateException` - if this collector is not cached (i.e., if the RAM limits were too low for the number of documents + scores to cache).
    `IllegalArgumentException` - if the given Collect's does not support out-of-order collection, while the collector passed to the ctor does.
    `IOException`