Package org.terrier.structures.postings

Interface WritablePosting

All Superinterfaces:

Posting, java.io.Serializable, org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicIterablePosting, BasicIterablePostingDocidOnly, BasicPostingImpl, BlockFieldIterablePosting, BlockFieldPostingImpl, BlockIterablePosting, BlockPostingImpl, FieldIterablePosting, FieldPostingImpl

public interface WritablePosting
extends Posting, org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable, java.io.Serializable

Allow a Posting to be serialized to a DataOut.

Since:

3.0

Author:

Craig Macdonald

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	setDocumentLength(int l)	Set the length of the document of the current posting in tokens.
void	setId(int id)	It may be of benefit to update the frequency of the id in some applications.

Methods inherited from interface org.terrier.structures.postings.Posting

asWritablePosting, getDocumentLength, getFrequency, getId

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable

readFields, write

Method Detail

setDocumentLength

void setDocumentLength(int l)

Set the length of the document of the current posting in tokens.

Parameters:

l - length of the document of the current posting in tokens.

setId

void setId(int id)

It may be of benefit to update the frequency of the id in some applications. This should not be used lightly, as it may break the decompression of other postings in iterators. This was moved from Posting.

Specified by:

setId in interface Posting