[hibernate-dev] DocumentBuilder refactoring in Hibernate Search: how to deal (internally) with metadata

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On Fri 2013-05-31 11:17, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
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> On 31 Jan 2013, at 11:13 AM, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org> wrote:
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> >>        Set<String> getIndexNames();
> >> 
> >> Would something like Set<IndexDescriptor> getIndexes() make sense?
> > 
> > That's an interesting thought. In fact I was wondering whether more index specific information is needed. On the other hand, 
> > I was thinking thinking that as long as you have the index name you can always get more information via accessing the IndexManager
> > directly - SearchFactoryImplementor.getAllIndexesManager.getIndexManager(String indexName)
> 
> Forgot to mention that I really dislike getAllIndexesManager(). I would love to rename it to getIndexManagers() or getIndexManagerHolder().
> Might be something for Search 5!?

I'd say deprecate the existing one and create getIndexManagerHolder()
right now. No need to wait for 5.