first stab

Updates the requirements on [lru](https://github.com/jeromefroe/lru-rs) to permit the latest version.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/jeromefroe/lru-rs/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/jeromefroe/lru-rs/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/jeromefroe/lru-rs/compare/0.6.5...0.7.0)

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: lru
  dependency-type: direct:production
...

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.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/actions.md

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+---
+name: Actions
+about: Actions not directly related to producing code.
+
+---
+
+# Actions title
+
+Action description. 
+e.g. 
+- benchmark
+- investigate and report
+- etc.

.github/dependabot.yml

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+version: 2
+updates:
+- package-ecosystem: cargo
+  directory: "/"
+  schedule:
+    interval: daily
+    time: "20:00"
+  open-pull-requests-limit: 10

.github/workflows/coverage.yml

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+name: Coverage
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ main ]
+
+jobs:
+  coverage:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Install Rust
+        run: rustup toolchain install nightly --component llvm-tools-preview
+      - name: Install cargo-llvm-cov
+        run: curl -LsSf https://github.com/taiki-e/cargo-llvm-cov/releases/latest/download/cargo-llvm-cov-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz | tar xzf - -C ~/.cargo/bin
+      - name: Generate code coverage
+        run: cargo llvm-cov --all-features --workspace --lcov --output-path lcov.info
+      - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }} # not required for public repos
+          files: lcov.info
+          fail_ci_if_error: true

.github/workflows/long_running.yml

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+name: Rust
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main ]
+
+env:
+  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+  NUM_FUNCTIONAL_TEST_ITERATIONS: 20000
+
+jobs:
+  functional_test_unsorted:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Run indexing_unsorted
+      run: cargo test indexing_unsorted -- --ignored
+  functional_test_sorted:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Run indexing_sorted
+      run: cargo test indexing_sorted -- --ignored
+

.github/workflows/test.yml

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+name: Rust
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ main ]
+
+env:
+  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Build
+      run: cargo build --verbose --workspace
+    - name: Install latest nightly to test also against unstable feature flag
+      uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
+      with:
+            toolchain: nightly
+            override: true
+            components: rustfmt
+    - name: Run tests
+      run: cargo test --all-features --verbose --workspace
+    - name: Check Formatting
+      run: cargo fmt --all -- --check

.gitignore

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 tantivy.iml
+proptest-regressions
 *.swp
 target
 target/debug
@@ -11,3 +12,4 @@ cpp/simdcomp/bitpackingbenchmark
 *.bk
 .idea
 trace.dat
+cargo-timing*

ARCHITECTURE.md

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+# Tantivy
+
+## What is tantivy?
+
+Tantivy is a library that is meant to build search engines. Although it is by no means a port of Lucene, its architecture is strongly inspired by it. If you are familiar with Lucene, you may be struck by the overlapping vocabulary.
+This is not fortuitous.
+
+Tantivy's bread and butter is to address the problem of full-text search :
+
+Given a large set of textual documents, and a text query, return the K-most relevant documents in a very efficient way. To execute these queries rapidly, the tantivy needs to build an index beforehand. The relevance score implemented in the tantivy is not configurable. Tantivy uses the same score as the default similarity used in Lucene / Elasticsearch, called [BM25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25).
+
+But tantivy's scope does not stop there. Numerous features are required to power rich-search applications. For instance, one may want to:
+- compute the count of documents matching a query in the different section of an e-commerce website,
+- display an average price per meter square for a real estate search engine,
+- take into account historical user data to rank documents in a specific way,
+- or even use tantivy to power an OLAP database.
+
+A more abstract description of the problem space tantivy is trying to address is the following.
+
+Ingest a large set of documents, create an index that makes it possible to
+rapidly select all documents matching a given predicate (also known as a query) and
+collect some information about them ([See collector](#collector-define-what-to-do-with-matched-documents)).
+
+Roughly speaking the design is following these guiding principles:
+- Search should be O(1) in memory.
+- Indexing should be O(1) in memory. (In practice it is just sublinear)
+- Search should be as fast as possible
+
+This comes at the cost of the dynamicity of the index: while it is possible to add, and delete documents from our corpus, the tantivy is designed to handle these updates in large batches.
+
+## [core/](src/core): Index, segments, searchers.
+
+Core contains all of the high-level code to make it possible to create an index, add documents, delete documents and commit.
+
+This is both the most high-level part of tantivy, the least performance-sensitive one, the seemingly most mundane code... And paradoxically the most complicated part.
+
+### Index and Segments...
+
+A tantivy index is a collection of smaller independent immutable segments. 
+Each segment contains its own independent set of data structures.
+
+A segment is identified by a segment id that is in fact a UUID.
+The file of a segment has the format
+
+ ```segment-id . ext ```
+
+The extension signals which data structure (or [`SegmentComponent`](src/core/segment_component.rs)) is stored in the file.
+
+A small `meta.json` file is in charge of keeping track of the list of segments, as well as the schema.
+
+On commit, one segment per indexing thread is written to disk, and the `meta.json` is then updated atomically.
+
+For a better idea of how indexing works, you may read the [following blog post](https://fulmicoton.com/posts/behold-tantivy-part2/).
+
+
+### Deletes
+
+Deletes happen by deleting a "term". Tantivy does not offer any notion of primary id, so it is up to the user to use a field in their schema as if it was a primary id, and delete the associated term if they want to delete only one specific document.
+
+On commit, tantivy will find all of the segments with documents matching this existing term and create a [tombstone file](src/fastfield/delete.rs) that represents the bitset of the document that are deleted.
+Like all segment files, this file is immutable. Because it is possible to have more than one tombstone file at a given instant, the tombstone filename has the format ``` segment_id . commit_opstamp . del```.
+
+An opstamp is simply an incremental id that identifies any operation applied to the index. For instance, performing a commit or adding a document.
+
+
+### DocId
+
+Within a segment, all documents are identified by a DocId that ranges within `[0, max_doc)`.
+where `max_doc` is the number of documents in the segment, (deleted or not). Having such a compact `DocId` space is key to the compression of our data structures.
+
+The DocIds are simply allocated in the order documents are added to the index.
+
+### Merges
+
+In separate threads, tantivy's index writer search for opportunities to merge segments.
+The point of segment merge is to:
+- eventually get rid of tombstoned documents
+- reduce the otherwise ever-growing number of segments.
+
+Indeed, while having several segments instead of one does not hurt search too much, having hundreds can have a measurable impact on the search performance.
+
+### Searcher
+
+The user of the library usually does not need to know about the existence of Segments.
+Searching is done through an object called a [`Searcher`](src/core/searcher.rs), that captures a
+snapshot of the index at one point of time, by holding a list of [SegmentReader](src/core/segment_reader.rs).
+
+In other words, regardless of commits, file garbage collection, or segment merge that might happen, as long as the user holds and reuse the same [Searcher](src/core/searcher.rs), search will happen on an immutable snapshot of the index.
+
+## [directory/](src/directory): Where should the data be stored?
+
+Tantivy, like Lucene, abstracts the place where the data should be stored in a key-trait
+called [`Directory`](src/directory/directory.rs).
+Contrary to Lucene however, "files" are quite different from some kind of `io::Read` object.
+Check out [`src/directory/directory.rs`](src/directory/directory.rs) trait for more details.
+
+Tantivy ships two main directory implementation: the `MMapDirectory` and the `RAMDirectory`,
+but users can extend tantivy with their own implementation.
+
+## [schema/](src/schema): What are documents?
+
+Tantivy's document follows a very strict schema, decided before building any index.
+
+The schema defines all of the fields that the indexes [`Document`](src/schema/document.rs) may and should contain, their types (`text`, `i64`, `u64`, `Date`, ...) as well as how it should be indexed / represented in tantivy.
+
+Depending on the type of the field, you can decide to
+- put it in the docstore
+- store it as a fast field
+- index it
+
+Practically, tantivy will push values associated with this type to up to 3 respective
+data structures.
+
+*Limitations*
+
+As of today, tantivy's schema imposes a 1:1 relationship between a field that is being ingested and a field represented in the search index. In sophisticated search application, it is fairly common to want to index a field twice using different tokenizers, or to index the concatenation of several fields together into one field.
+
+This is not something tantivy supports, and it is up to the user to duplicate field / concatenate fields before feeding them to tantivy.
+
+## General information about these data structures.
+
+All data structures in tantivy, have:
+- a writer
+- a serializer
+- a reader
+
+The writer builds an in-memory representation of a batch of documents. This representation is not searchable. It is just meant as an intermediary mutable representation, to which we can sequentially add
+the document of a batch. At the end of the batch (or if a memory limit is reached), this representation
+is then converted into an on-disk immutable representation, that is extremely compact.
+This conversion is done by the serializer.
+
+Finally, the reader is in charge of offering an API to read on this on-disk read-only representation.
+In tantivy, readers are designed to require very little anonymous memory. The data is read straight from an mmapped file, and loading an index is as fast as mmapping its files.
+
+## [store/](src/store): Here is my DocId, Gimme my document!
+
+The docstore is a row-oriented storage that, for each document, stores a subset of the fields
+that are marked as stored in the schema. The docstore is compressed using a general-purpose algorithm
+like LZ4.
+
+**Useful for**
+
+In search engines, it is often used to display search results.
+Once the top 10 documents have been identified, we fetch them from the store, and display them or their snippet on the search result page (aka SERP).
+
+**Not useful for**
+
+Fetching a document from the store is typically a "slow" operation. It usually consists in
+- searching into a compact tree-like data structure to find the position of the right block.
+- decompressing a small block
+- returning the document from this block.
+
+It is NOT meant to be called for every document matching a query.
+
+As a rule of thumb, if you hit the docstore more than 100 times per search query, you are probably misusing tantivy.
+
+
+## [fastfield/](src/fastfield): Here is my DocId, Gimme my value!
+
+Fast fields are stored in a column-oriented storage that allows for random access.
+The only compression applied is bitpacking. The column comes with two meta data.
+The minimum value in the column and the number of bits per doc.
+
+Fetching a value for a `DocId` is then as simple as computing
+
+```
+min_value + fetch_bits(num_bits * doc_id..num_bits * (doc_id+1))
+```
+
+This operation just requires one memory fetch.
+Because, DocSets are scanned through in order (DocId are iterated in a sorted manner) which
+also help locality.
+
+In Lucene's jargon, fast fields are called DocValues.
+
+**Useful for**
+
+They are typically integer values that are useful to either rank or compute aggregate over
+all of the documents matching a query (aka [DocSet](src/docset.rs)).
+
+For instance, one could define a function to combine upvotes with tantivy's internal relevancy score.
+This can be done by fetching a fast field during scoring.
+One could also compute the mean price of the items matching a query in an e-commerce website.
+This can be done by fetching a fast field in a collector.
+Finally one could decide to post-filter a docset to remove docset with a price within a specific range.
+If the ratio of filtered out documents is not too low, an efficient way to do this is to fetch the price and apply the filter on the collector side.
+
+Aside from integer values, it is also possible to store an actual byte payload.
+For advanced search engine, it is possible to store all of the features required for learning-to-rank in a byte payload, access it during search, and apply the learning-to-rank model.
+
+Finally facets are a specific kind of fast field, and the associated source code is in [`fastfield/facet_reader.rs`](src/fastfield/facet_reader.rs).
+
+# The inverted search index.
+
+The inverted index is the core part of full-text search.
+When presented a new document with the text field "Hello, happy tax payer!", tantivy breaks it into a list of so-called tokens. In addition to just splitting these strings into tokens, it might also do different kinds of operations like dropping the punctuation, converting the character to lowercase, apply stemming, etc. Tantivy makes it possible to configure the operations to be applied in the schema (tokenizer/ is the place where these operations are implemented).
+
+For instance, the default tokenizer of tantivy would break our text into: `[hello, happy, tax, payer]`.
+The document will therefore be registered in the inverted index as containing the terms
+`[text:hello, text:happy, text:tax, text:payer]`.
+
+The role of the inverted index is, when given a term, gives us in return a very fast iterator over the sorted doc ids that match the term.
+
+Such an iterator is called a posting list. In addition to giving us `DocId`, they can also give us optionally the number of occurrence of the term for each document, also called term frequency or TF.
+
+These iterators being sorted by DocId, one can create an iterator over the document containing `text:tax AND text:payer`, `(text:tax AND text:payer) OR (text:contribuable)` or any boolean expression.
+
+In order to represent the function
+```Term ⟶ Posting```
+
+The inverted index actually consists of two data structures chained together.
+
+- [Term](src/schema/term.rs) ⟶ [TermInfo](src/postings/term_info.rs) is addressed by the term dictionary.
+- [TermInfo](src/postings/term_info.rs) ⟶ [Posting](src/postings/postings.rs) is addressed by the posting lists.
+
+Where [TermInfo](src/postings/term_info.rs) is an object containing some meta data about a term.
+
+
+## [termdict/](src/termdict): Here is a term, give me the [TermInfo](src/postings/term_info.rs)!
+
+Tantivy's term dictionary is mainly in charge of supplying the function
+
+[Term](src/schema/term.rs) ⟶ [TermInfo](src/postings/term_info.rs)
+
+It is itself broken into two parts.
+- [Term](src/schema/term.rs) ⟶ [TermOrdinal](src/termdict/mod.rs) is addressed by a finite state transducer, implemented by the fst crate.
+- [TermOrdinal](src/termdict/mod.rs) ⟶ [TermInfo](src/postings/term_info.rs) is addressed by the term info store.
+
+
+## [postings/](src/postings): Iterate over documents... very fast!
+
+A posting list makes it possible to store a sorted list of doc ids and for each doc store
+a term frequency as well.
+
+The posting lists are stored in a separate file. The [TermInfo](src/postings/term_info.rs) contains an offset into that file and a number of documents for the given posting list. Both are required and sufficient to read the posting list.
+
+The posting list is organized in block of 128 documents.
+One block of doc ids is followed by one block of term frequencies.
+
+The doc ids are delta encoded and bitpacked.
+The term frequencies are bitpacked.
+
+Because the number of docs is rarely a multiple of 128, the last block may contain an arbitrary number of docs between 1 and 127 documents. We then use variable int encoding instead of bitpacking.
+
+## [positions/](src/positions): Where are my terms within the documents?
+
+Phrase queries make it possible to search for documents containing a specific sequence of terms.
+For instance, when the phrase query "the art of war" does not match "the war of art".
+To make it possible, it is possible to specify in the schema that a field should store positions in addition to being indexed.
+
+The token positions of all of the terms are then stored in a separate file with the extension `.pos`.
+The [TermInfo](src/postings/term_info.rs) gives an offset (expressed in position this time) in this file. As we iterate throught the docset,
+we advance the position reader by the number of term frequencies of the current document.
+
+## [fieldnorms/](src/fieldnorms): Here is my doc, how many tokens in this field?
+
+The [BM25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25) formula also requires to know the number of tokens stored in a specific field for a given document. We store this information on one byte per document in the fieldnorm.
+The fieldnorm is therefore compressed. Values up to 40 are encoded unchanged.
+
+
+## [tokenizer/](src/tokenizer): How should we process text?
+
+Text processing is key to a good search experience.
+Splits or normalize your text too much, and the search results will have a less precision and a higher recall.
+Do not normalize, or under split your text, you will end up with a higher precision and a lesser recall.
+
+Text processing can be configured by selecting an off-the-shelf [`Tokenizer`](./src/tokenizer/tokenizer.rs) or implementing your own to first split the text into tokens, and then chain different [`TokenFilter`](src/tokenizer/tokenizer.rs)'s to it.
+
+Tantivy's comes with few tokenizers, but external crates are offering advanced tokenizers, such as [Lindera](https://crates.io/crates/lindera) for Japanese.
+
+
+## [query/](src/query): Define and compose queries
+
+The [Query](src/query/query.rs) trait defines what a query is.
+Due to the necessity for some queries to compute some statistics over the entire index, and because the
+index is composed of several `SegmentReader`, the path from transforming a `Query` to an iterator over documents is slightly convoluted, but fundamentally, this is what a Query is.
+
+The iterator over a document comes with some scoring function. The resulting trait is called a
+[Scorer](src/query/scorer.rs) and is specific to a segment.
+
+Different queries can be combined using the [BooleanQuery](src/query/boolean_query/).
+Tantivy comes with different types of queries and can be extended by implementing
+the `Query`, `Weight`, and `Scorer` traits.
+
+## [collector](src/collector): Define what to do with matched documents
+
+Collectors define how to aggregate the documents matching a query, in the broadest sense possible.
+The search will push matched documents one by one, calling their
+`fn collect(doc: DocId, score: Score);` method.
+
+Users may implement their own collectors by implementing the [Collector](src/collector/mod.rs) trait.
+
+## [query-grammar](query-grammar): Defines the grammar of the query parser
+
+While the [QueryParser](src/query/query_parser/query_parser.rs) struct is located in the `query/` directory, the actual parser combinator used to convert user queries into an AST is in an external crate called `query-grammar`. This part was externalized to lighten the work of the compiler.

CHANGELOG.md

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+Tantivy 0.16.1
+========================
+- Major Bugfix on multivalued fastfield.  #1151
+
+Tantivy 0.16.0
+=========================
+- Bugfix in the filesum check. (@evanxg852000) #1127
+- Bugfix in positions when the index is sorted by a field. (@appaquet) #1125
+
+Tantivy 0.15.3
+=========================
+- Major bugfix. Deleting documents was broken when the index was sorted by a field. (@appaquet, @fulmicoton) #1101
+
+
+Tantivy 0.15.2
+========================
+- Major bugfix. DocStore still panics when a deleted doc is at the beginning of a block. (@appaquet) #1088
+
+Tantivy 0.15.1
+=========================
+- Major bugfix. DocStore panics when first block is deleted. (@appaquet) #1077
+
+Tantivy 0.15.0
+=========================
+- API Changes. Using Range instead of (start, end) in the API and internals (`FileSlice`, `OwnedBytes`, `Snippets`, ...)
+  This change is breaking but migration is trivial.
+- Added an Histogram collector. (@fulmicoton) #994
+- Added support for Option<TCollector>.  (@fulmicoton)
+- DocAddress is now a struct (@scampi) #987
+- Bugfix consistent tie break handling in facet's topk (@hardikpnsp) #357
+- Date field support for range queries (@rihardsk) #516
+- Added lz4-flex as the default compression scheme in tantivy (@PSeitz) #1009
+- Renamed a lot of symbols to avoid all uppercasing on acronyms, as per new clippy recommendation. For instance, RAMDirectory -> RamDirectory. (@fulmicoton)
+- Simplified positions index format (@fulmicoton) #1022
+- Moved bitpacking to bitpacker subcrate and add BlockedBitpacker, which bitpacks blocks of 128 elements (@PSeitz) #1030
+- Added support for more-like-this query in tantivy (@evanxg852000) #1011
+- Added support for sorting an index, e.g presorting documents in an index by a timestamp field. This can heavily improve performance for certain scenarios, by utilizing the sorted data (Top-n optimizations)(@PSeitz). #1026
+- Add iterator over documents in doc store (@PSeitz). #1044
+- Fix log merge policy (@PSeitz). #1043
+- Add detection to avoid small doc store blocks on merge (@PSeitz). #1054
+- Make doc store compression dynamic (@PSeitz). #1060
+- Switch to json for footer version handling (@PSeitz). #1060
+- Updated TermMerger implementation to rely on the union feature of the FST (@scampi) #469
+- Add boolean marking whether position is required in the query_terms API call (@fulmicoton). #1070
+
+
+Tantivy 0.14.0
+=========================
+- Remove dependency to atomicwrites #833 .Implemented by @fulmicoton upon suggestion and research from @asafigan).
+- Migrated tantivy error from the now deprecated `failure` crate to `thiserror` #760. (@hirevo)
+- API Change. Accessing the typed value off a `Schema::Value` now returns an Option instead of panicking if the type does not match.
+- Large API Change in the Directory API. Tantivy used to assume that all files could be somehow memory mapped. After this change, Directory return a `FileSlice` that can be reduced and eventually read into an `OwnedBytes` object. Long and blocking io operation are still required by they do not span over the entire file.
+- Added support for Brotli compression in the DocStore. (@ppodolsky)
+- Added helper for building intersections and unions in BooleanQuery (@guilload)
+- Bugfix in `Query::explain`
+- Removed dependency on `notify` #924. Replaced with `FileWatcher` struct that polls meta file every 500ms in background thread. (@halvorboe @guilload)
+- Added `FilterCollector`, which wraps another collector and filters docs using a predicate over a fast field (@barrotsteindev)
+- Simplified the encoding of the skip reader struct. BlockWAND max tf is now encoded over a single byte. (@fulmicoton)
+- `FilterCollector` now supports all Fast Field value types (@barrotsteindev)
+- FastField are not all loaded when opening the segment reader. (@fulmicoton)
+- Added an API to merge segments, see `tantivy::merge_segments` #1005. (@evanxg852000)
+
+This version breaks compatibility and requires users to reindex everything.
+
+Tantivy 0.13.2
+===================
+Bugfix. Acquiring a facet reader on a segment that does not contain any
+doc with this facet returns `None`. (#896)
+
+Tantivy 0.13.1
+===================
+Made `Query` and `Collector` `Send + Sync`.
+Updated misc dependency versions.
+
+Tantivy 0.13.0
+======================
+Tantivy 0.13 introduce a change in the index format that will require
+you to reindex your index (BlockWAND information are added in the skiplist).
+The index size increase is minor as this information is only added for
+full blocks.
+If you have a massive index for which reindexing is not an option, please contact me
+so that we can discuss possible solutions.
+
+- Bugfix in `FuzzyTermQuery` not matching terms by prefix when it should (@Peachball)
+- Relaxed constraints on the custom/tweak score functions. At the segment level, they can be mut, and they are not required to be Sync + Send.
+- `MMapDirectory::open` does not return a `Result` anymore.
+- Change in the DocSet and Scorer API. (@fulmicoton).
+A freshly created DocSet point directly to their first doc. A sentinel value called TERMINATED marks the end of a DocSet.
+`.advance()` returns the new DocId. `Scorer::skip(target)` has been replaced by `Scorer::seek(target)` and returns the resulting DocId.
+As a result, iterating through DocSet now looks as follows
+```rust
+let mut doc = docset.doc();
+while doc != TERMINATED {
+   // ...
+   doc = docset.advance();
+}
+```
+The change made it possible to greatly simplify a lot of the docset's code.
+- Misc internal optimization and introduction of the `Scorer::for_each_pruning` function. (@fulmicoton)
+- Added an offset option to the Top(.*)Collectors. (@robyoung)
+- Added Block WAND. Performance on TOP-K on term-unions should be greatly increased. (@fulmicoton, and special thanks
+to the PISA team for answering all my questions!)
+
 Tantivy 0.12.0
 ======================
 - Removing static dispatch in tokenizers for simplicity. (#762)
+- Added backward iteration for `TermDictionary` stream. (@halvorboe)
+- Fixed a performance issue when searching for the posting lists of a missing term (@audunhalland)
+- Added a configurable maximum number of docs (10M by default) for a segment to be considered for merge (@hntd187, landed by @halvorboe #713)
+- Important Bugfix #777, causing tantivy to retain memory mapping. (diagnosed by @poljar)
+- Added support for field boosting. (#547, @fulmicoton)
 
 ## How to update?
 
-Crates relying on custom tokenizer, or registering tokenizer in the manager will require some 
-minor changes. Check https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy/blob/master/examples/custom_tokenizer.rs
+Crates relying on custom tokenizer, or registering tokenizer in the manager will require some
+minor changes. Check https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy/blob/main/examples/custom_tokenizer.rs
 to check for some code sample.
 
 Tantivy 0.11.3
@@ -41,7 +149,7 @@ Tantivy 0.11.0
 
 ## How to update?
 
-- The index format is changed. You are required to reindex your data to use tantivy 0.11. 
+- The index format is changed. You are required to reindex your data to use tantivy 0.11.
 - `Box<dyn BoxableTokenizer>` has been replaced by a `BoxedTokenizer` struct.
 - Regex are now compiled when the `RegexQuery` instance is built. As a result, it can now return
 an error and handling the `Result` is required.
@@ -65,26 +173,26 @@ Tantivy 0.10.0
 
 *Tantivy 0.10.0 index format is compatible with the index format in 0.9.0.*
 
-- Added an API to easily tweak or entirely replace the 
- default score. See `TopDocs::tweak_score`and `TopScore::custom_score` (@pmasurel)
+- Added an API to easily tweak or entirely replace the
+ default score. See `TopDocs::tweak_score`and `TopScore::custom_score` (@fulmicoton)
 - Added an ASCII folding filter (@drusellers)
-- Bugfix in `query.count` in presence of deletes (@pmasurel)
-- Added `.explain(...)` in `Query` and `Weight` to (@pmasurel)
-- Added an efficient way to `delete_all_documents` in `IndexWriter` (@petr-tik). 
+- Bugfix in `query.count` in presence of deletes (@fulmicoton)
+- Added `.explain(...)` in `Query` and `Weight` to (@fulmicoton)
+- Added an efficient way to `delete_all_documents` in `IndexWriter` (@petr-tik).
   All segments are simply removed.
 
 Minor
 ---------
 - Switched to Rust 2018 (@uvd)
-- Small simplification of the code. 
+- Small simplification of the code.
 Calling .freq() or .doc() when .advance() has never been called
 on segment postings should panic from now on.
 - Tokens exceeding `u16::max_value() - 4` chars are discarded silently instead of panicking.
 - Fast fields are now preloaded when the `SegmentReader` is created.
 - `IndexMeta` is now public.  (@hntd187)
 - `IndexWriter` `add_document`, `delete_term`. `IndexWriter` is `Sync`, making it possible to use it with a `
-Arc<RwLock<IndexWriter>>`. `add_document` and `delete_term` can 
-only require a read lock. (@pmasurel)
+Arc<RwLock<IndexWriter>>`. `add_document` and `delete_term` can
+only require a read lock. (@fulmicoton)
 - Introducing `Opstamp` as an expressive type alias for `u64`. (@petr-tik)
 - Stamper now relies on `AtomicU64` on all platforms (@petr-tik)
 - Bugfix - Files get deleted slightly earlier
@@ -98,7 +206,7 @@ Your program should be usable as is.
 
 Fast fields used to be accessed directly from the `SegmentReader`.
 The API changed, you are now required to acquire your fast field reader via the
-`segment_reader.fast_fields()`, and use one of the typed method: 
+`segment_reader.fast_fields()`, and use one of the typed method:
 - `.u64()`, `.i64()` if your field is single-valued ;
 - `.u64s()`, `.i64s()` if your field is multi-valued ;
 - `.bytes()` if your field is bytes fast field.
@@ -107,16 +215,16 @@ The API changed, you are now required to acquire your fast field reader via the
 
 Tantivy 0.9.0
 =====================
-*0.9.0 index format is not compatible with the 
+*0.9.0 index format is not compatible with the
 previous index format.*
-- MAJOR BUGFIX : 
+- MAJOR BUGFIX :
   Some `Mmap` objects were being leaked, and would never get released. (@fulmicoton)
 - Removed most unsafe (@fulmicoton)
 - Indexer memory footprint improved. (VInt comp, inlining the first block. (@fulmicoton)
 - Stemming in other language possible (@pentlander)
 - Segments with no docs are deleted earlier (@barrotsteindev)
-- Added grouped add and delete operations. 
-  They are guaranteed to happen together (i.e. they cannot be split by a commit). 
+- Added grouped add and delete operations.
+  They are guaranteed to happen together (i.e. they cannot be split by a commit).
   In addition, adds are guaranteed to happen on the same segment. (@elbow-jason)
 - Removed `INT_STORED` and `INT_INDEXED`. It is now possible to use `STORED` and `INDEXED`
   for int fields. (@fulmicoton)
@@ -130,26 +238,26 @@ tantivy 0.9 brought some API breaking change.
 To update from tantivy 0.8, you will need to go through the following steps.
 
 - `schema::INT_INDEXED` and `schema::INT_STORED`  should be replaced by `schema::INDEXED` and `schema::INT_STORED`.
-- The index now does not hold the pool of searcher anymore. You are required to create an intermediary object called 
-`IndexReader` for this. 
-    
+- The index now does not hold the pool of searcher anymore. You are required to create an intermediary object called
+`IndexReader` for this.
+
     ```rust
     // create the reader. You typically need to create 1 reader for the entire
     // lifetime of you program.
     let reader = index.reader()?;
-    
+
     // Acquire a searcher (previously `index.searcher()`) is now written:
     let searcher = reader.searcher();
-    
-    // With the default setting of the reader, you are not required to 
+
+    // With the default setting of the reader, you are not required to
     // call `index.load_searchers()` anymore.
     //
     // The IndexReader will pick up that change automatically, regardless
     // of whether the update was done in a different process or not.
-    // If this behavior is not wanted, you can create your reader with 
+    // If this behavior is not wanted, you can create your reader with
     // the `ReloadPolicy::Manual`, and manually decide when to reload the index
     // by calling `reader.reload()?`.
-  
+
     ```
 
 
@@ -164,7 +272,7 @@ Tantivy 0.8.1
 =====================
 Hotfix of #476.
 
-Merge was reflecting deletes before commit was passed. 
+Merge was reflecting deletes before commit was passed.
 Thanks @barrotsteindev  for reporting the bug.
 
 
@@ -172,7 +280,7 @@ Tantivy 0.8.0
 =====================
 *No change in the index format*
 - API Breaking change in the collector API. (@jwolfe, @fulmicoton)
-- Multithreaded search (@jwolfe, @fulmicoton) 
+- Multithreaded search (@jwolfe, @fulmicoton)
 
 
 Tantivy 0.7.1
@@ -200,7 +308,7 @@ Tantivy 0.6.1
         - Exclusive `field:{startExcl to endExcl}`
         - Mixed `field:[startIncl to endExcl}` and vice versa
         - Unbounded `field:[start to *]`, `field:[* to end]`
- 
+
 
 Tantivy 0.6
 ==========================
@@ -208,10 +316,10 @@ Tantivy 0.6
 Special thanks to @drusellers and @jason-wolfe for their contributions
 to this release!
 
-- Removed C code. Tantivy is now pure Rust. (@pmasurel)
-- BM25 (@pmasurel)
-- Approximate field norms encoded over 1 byte. (@pmasurel)
-- Compiles on stable rust (@pmasurel)
+- Removed C code. Tantivy is now pure Rust. (@fulmicoton)
+- BM25 (@fulmicoton)
+- Approximate field norms encoded over 1 byte. (@fulmicoton)
+- Compiles on stable rust (@fulmicoton)
 - Add &[u8] fastfield for associating arbitrary bytes to each document (@jason-wolfe) (#270)
     - Completely uncompressed
     - Internally: One u64 fast field for indexes, one fast field for the bytes themselves.
@@ -219,7 +327,7 @@ to this release!
 - Add Stopword Filter support (@drusellers)
 - Add a FuzzyTermQuery (@drusellers)
 - Add a RegexQuery (@drusellers)
-- Various performance improvements (@pmasurel)_
+- Various performance improvements (@fulmicoton)_
 
 
 Tantivy 0.5.2

Cargo.toml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 [package]
 name = "tantivy"
-version = "0.11.3"
+version = "0.16.1"
 authors = ["Paul Masurel <paul.masurel@gmail.com>"]
 license = "MIT"
 categories = ["database-implementations", "data-structures"]
 description = """Search engine library"""
-documentation = "https://tantivy-search.github.io/tantivy/tantivy/index.html"
+documentation = "https://docs.rs/tantivy/"
 homepage = "https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy"
 repository = "https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy"
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -13,57 +13,65 @@ keywords = ["search", "information", "retrieval"]
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
-base64 = "0.11.0"
-byteorder = "1.0"
-crc32fast = "1.2.0"
-once_cell = "1.0"
-regex ={version = "1.3.0", default-features = false, features = ["std"]}
-tantivy-fst = "0.2"
-memmap = {version = "0.7", optional=true}
-lz4 = {version="1.20", optional=true}
-snap = {version="0.2"}
-atomicwrites = {version="0.2.2", optional=true}
-tempfile = "3.0"
-log = "0.4"
-serde = "1.0"
-serde_derive = "1.0"
-serde_json = "1.0"
-num_cpus = "1.2"
-fs2={version="0.4", optional=true}
-itertools = "0.8"
-levenshtein_automata = {version="0.1", features=["fst_automaton"]}
-notify = {version="4", optional=true}
-uuid = { version = "0.8", features = ["v4", "serde"] }
-crossbeam = "0.7"
-futures = {version = "0.3",  features=["thread-pool"] }
-owning_ref = "0.4"
-stable_deref_trait = "1.0.0"
+base64 = "0.13"
+byteorder = "1.4.3"
+crc32fast = "1.2.1"
+once_cell = "1.7.2"
+regex ={ version = "1.5.4", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
+tantivy-fst = "0.3"
+memmap2 = {version = "0.5", optional=true}
+lz4_flex = { version = "0.9.0", default-features = false, features = ["checked-decode"], optional = true }
+brotli = { version = "3.3", optional = true }
+snap = { version = "1.0.5", optional = true }
+tempfile = { version = "3.2", optional = true }
+log = "0.4.14"
+serde = { version = "1.0.126", features = ["derive"] }
+serde_closure = "0.3"
+serde_json = "1.0.64"
+num_cpus = "1.13"
+fs2={ version = "0.4.3", optional = true }
+levenshtein_automata = "0.2"
+uuid = { version = "0.8.2", features = ["v4", "serde"] }
+crossbeam = "0.8.1"
+futures = { version = "0.3.15", features = ["thread-pool"] }
+tantivy-query-grammar = { version="0.15.0", path="./query-grammar" }
+tantivy-bitpacker = { version="0.1", path="./bitpacker" }
+common = { version = "0.1", path = "./common/", package = "tantivy-common" }
+fastfield_codecs = { version="0.1", path="./fastfield_codecs", default-features = false }
+ownedbytes = { version="0.1", path="./ownedbytes" }
+stable_deref_trait = "1.2"
 rust-stemmers = "1.2"
-downcast-rs = { version="1.0" }
-tantivy-query-grammar = { version="0.11", path="./query-grammar" }
-bitpacking = {version="0.8", default-features = false, features=["bitpacker4x"]}
+downcast-rs = "1.2"
+bitpacking = { version = "0.8.4", default-features = false, features = ["bitpacker4x"] }
 census = "0.4"
-fnv = "1.0.6"
-owned-read = "0.4"
-failure = "0.1"
+fnv = "1.0.7"
+thiserror = "1.0.24"
 htmlescape = "0.3.1"
-fail = "0.3"
+fail = "0.4"
 murmurhash32 = "0.2"
-chrono = "0.4"
-smallvec = "1.0"
-rayon = "1"
+chrono = "0.4.19"
+smallvec = "1.6.1"
+lru = "0.7.0"
+fastdivide = "0.3"
+itertools = "0.10.0"
+measure_time = "0.7.0"
+wasm-mt = "0.1"
+wasm-mt-pool = "0.1"
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
-winapi = "0.3"
+winapi = "0.3.9"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-rand = "0.7"
-maplit = "1"
+rand = "0.8.3"
+maplit = "1.0.2"
 matches = "0.1.8"
-time = "0.1.42"
+proptest = "1.0"
+criterion = "0.3.5"
+test-env-log = "0.2.7"
+env_logger = "0.9.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies.fail]
-version = "0.3"
+version = "0.4"
 features = ["failpoints"]
 
 [profile.release]
@@ -76,15 +84,19 @@ debug-assertions = true
 overflow-checks = true
 
 [features]
-default = ["mmap"]
-mmap = ["atomicwrites", "fs2", "memmap", "notify"]
-lz4-compression = ["lz4"]
+default = ["mmap", "lz4-compression" ]
+mmap = ["fs2", "tempfile", "memmap2"]
+
+brotli-compression = ["brotli"]
+lz4-compression = ["lz4_flex"]
+snappy-compression = ["snap"]
+
 failpoints = ["fail/failpoints"]
 unstable = [] # useful for benches.
 wasm-bindgen = ["uuid/wasm-bindgen"]
 
 [workspace]
-members = ["query-grammar"]
+members = ["query-grammar", "bitpacker", "common", "fastfield_codecs", "ownedbytes"]
 
 [badges]
 travis-ci = { repository = "tantivy-search/tantivy" }
@@ -100,3 +112,7 @@ travis-ci = { repository = "tantivy-search/tantivy" }
 name = "failpoints"
 path = "tests/failpoints/mod.rs"
 required-features = ["fail/failpoints"]
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "analyzer"
+harness = false

README.md

@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/tantivy-search/tantivy.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/tantivy-search/tantivy)
-[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/tantivy-search/tantivy/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/tantivy-search/tantivy)
+[![Docs](https://docs.rs/tantivy/badge.svg)](https://docs.rs/crate/tantivy/)
+[![Build Status](https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy/actions/workflows/test.yml)
+[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/tantivy-search/tantivy/branch/main/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/tantivy-search/tantivy)
 [![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/tantivy-search/tantivy](https://badges.gitter.im/tantivy-search/tantivy.svg)](https://gitter.im/tantivy-search/tantivy?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
 [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
-[![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/r7nb13kj23u8m9pj/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/fulmicoton/tantivy/branch/master)
 [![Crates.io](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/tantivy.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/tantivy)
-[![Say Thanks!](https://img.shields.io/badge/Say%20Thanks-!-1EAEDB.svg)](https://saythanks.io/to/fulmicoton)
 
 ![Tantivy](https://tantivy-search.github.io/logo/tantivy-logo.png)
 
@@ -31,16 +30,15 @@ Tantivy is, in fact, strongly inspired by Lucene's design.
 
 # Benchmark
 
-Tantivy is typically faster than Lucene, but the results depend on 
-the nature of the queries in your workload.
-
 The following [benchmark](https://tantivy-search.github.io/bench/) break downs 
 performance for different type of queries / collection.
 
+Your mileage WILL vary depending on the nature of queries and their load.
+
 # Features
 
 - Full-text search
-- Configurable tokenizer (stemming available for 17 Latin languages with third party support for Chinese ([tantivy-jieba](https://crates.io/crates/tantivy-jieba) and [cang-jie](https://crates.io/crates/cang-jie)) and [Japanese](https://crates.io/crates/tantivy-tokenizer-tiny-segmenter))
+- Configurable tokenizer (stemming available for 17 Latin languages with third party support for Chinese ([tantivy-jieba](https://crates.io/crates/tantivy-jieba) and [cang-jie](https://crates.io/crates/cang-jie)), Japanese ([lindera](https://github.com/lindera-morphology/lindera-tantivy) and [tantivy-tokenizer-tiny-segmenter](https://crates.io/crates/tantivy-tokenizer-tiny-segmenter)) and Korean ([lindera](https://github.com/lindera-morphology/lindera-tantivy) + [lindera-ko-dic-builder](https://github.com/lindera-morphology/lindera-ko-dic-builder))
 - Fast (check out the :racehorse: :sparkles: [benchmark](https://tantivy-search.github.io/bench/) :sparkles: :racehorse:)
 - Tiny startup time (<10ms), perfect for command line tools
 - BM25 scoring (the same as Lucene)
@@ -59,18 +57,17 @@ performance for different type of queries / collection.
 - Configurable indexing (optional term frequency and position indexing)
 - Cheesy logo with a horse
 
-# Non-features
+## Non-features
 
 - Distributed search is out of the scope of Tantivy. That being said, Tantivy is a
 library upon which one could build a distributed search. Serializable/mergeable collector state for instance, 
 are within the scope of Tantivy.
 
-# Supported OS and compiler
-
-Tantivy works on stable Rust (>= 1.27) and supports Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
 
 # Getting started
 
+Tantivy works on stable Rust (>= 1.27) and supports Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
+
 - [Tantivy's simple search example](https://tantivy-search.github.io/examples/basic_search.html)
 - [tantivy-cli and its tutorial](https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy-cli) - `tantivy-cli` is an actual command line interface that makes it easy for you to create a search engine,
 index documents, and search via the CLI or a small server with a REST API.
@@ -87,7 +84,7 @@ There are many ways to support this project.
 - Help with documentation by asking questions or submitting PRs
 - Contribute code (you can join [our Gitter](https://gitter.im/tantivy-search/tantivy))
 - Talk about Tantivy around you
-- Drop a word on on [![Say Thanks!](https://img.shields.io/badge/Say%20Thanks-!-1EAEDB.svg)](https://saythanks.io/to/fulmicoton) or even [![Become a patron](https://c5.patreon.com/external/logo/become_a_patron_button.png)](https://www.patreon.com/fulmicoton)
+- [![Become a patron](https://c5.patreon.com/external/logo/become_a_patron_button.png)](https://www.patreon.com/fulmicoton)
 
 # Contributing code
 

appveyor.yml

@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@ install:
 build: false
 
 test_script:
-  - REM SET RUST_LOG=tantivy,test & cargo test --verbose --no-default-features --features mmap
+  - REM SET RUST_LOG=tantivy,test & cargo test --all --verbose --no-default-features --features lz4-compression --features mmap
+  - REM SET RUST_LOG=tantivy,test & cargo test test_store --verbose --no-default-features --features lz4-compression --features snappy-compression --features brotli-compression --features mmap
   - REM SET RUST_BACKTRACE=1 & cargo build --examples

benches/analyzer.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use criterion::{criterion_group, criterion_main, Criterion};
+use tantivy::tokenizer::TokenizerManager;
+
+const ALICE_TXT: &str = include_str!("alice.txt");
+
+pub fn criterion_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    let tokenizer_manager = TokenizerManager::default();
+    let tokenizer = tokenizer_manager.get("default").unwrap();
+    c.bench_function("default-tokenize-alice", |b| {
+        b.iter(|| {
+            let mut word_count = 0;
+            let mut token_stream = tokenizer.token_stream(ALICE_TXT);
+            while token_stream.advance() {
+                word_count += 1;
+            }
+            assert_eq!(word_count, 30_731);
+        })
+    });
+}
+
+criterion_group!(benches, criterion_benchmark);
+criterion_main!(benches);

bitpacker/Cargo.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+[package]
+name = "tantivy-bitpacker"
+version = "0.1.1"
+edition = "2018"
+authors = ["Paul Masurel <paul.masurel@gmail.com>"]
+license = "MIT"
+categories = []
+description = """Tantivy-sub crate: bitpacking"""
+repository = "https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy"
+keywords = []
+
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]

bitpacker/benches/bench.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#![feature(test)]
+
+extern crate test;
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use tantivy_bitpacker::BlockedBitpacker;
+    use test::Bencher;
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_blockedbitp_read(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let mut blocked_bitpacker = BlockedBitpacker::new();
+        for val in 0..=21500 {
+            blocked_bitpacker.add(val * val);
+        }
+        b.iter(|| {
+            let mut out = 0;
+            for val in 0..=21500 {
+                out = blocked_bitpacker.get(val);
+            }
+            out
+        });
+    }
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_blockedbitp_create(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        b.iter(|| {
+            let mut blocked_bitpacker = BlockedBitpacker::new();
+            for val in 0..=21500 {
+                blocked_bitpacker.add(val * val);
+            }
+            blocked_bitpacker
+        });
+    }
+}

bitpacker/src/bitpacker.rs

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian, WriteBytesExt};
-use std::io;
-use std::ops::Deref;
+use std::{convert::TryInto, io};
 
-pub(crate) struct BitPacker {
+pub struct BitPacker {
     mini_buffer: u64,
     mini_buffer_written: usize,
 }
-
+impl Default for BitPacker {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        BitPacker::new()
+    }
+}
 impl BitPacker {
     pub fn new() -> BitPacker {
         BitPacker {
@@ -15,6 +17,7 @@ impl BitPacker {
         }
     }
 
+    #[inline]
     pub fn write<TWrite: io::Write>(
         &mut self,
         val: u64,
@@ -25,14 +28,14 @@ impl BitPacker {
         let num_bits = num_bits as usize;
         if self.mini_buffer_written + num_bits > 64 {
             self.mini_buffer |= val_u64.wrapping_shl(self.mini_buffer_written as u32);
-            output.write_u64::<LittleEndian>(self.mini_buffer)?;
+            output.write_all(self.mini_buffer.to_le_bytes().as_ref())?;
             self.mini_buffer = val_u64.wrapping_shr((64 - self.mini_buffer_written) as u32);
             self.mini_buffer_written = self.mini_buffer_written + num_bits - 64;
         } else {
             self.mini_buffer |= val_u64 << self.mini_buffer_written;
             self.mini_buffer_written += num_bits;
             if self.mini_buffer_written == 64 {
-                output.write_u64::<LittleEndian>(self.mini_buffer)?;
+                output.write_all(self.mini_buffer.to_le_bytes().as_ref())?;
                 self.mini_buffer_written = 0;
                 self.mini_buffer = 0u64;
             }
@@ -43,10 +46,10 @@ impl BitPacker {
     pub fn flush<TWrite: io::Write>(&mut self, output: &mut TWrite) -> io::Result<()> {
         if self.mini_buffer_written > 0 {
             let num_bytes = (self.mini_buffer_written + 7) / 8;
-            let mut arr: [u8; 8] = [0u8; 8];
-            LittleEndian::write_u64(&mut arr, self.mini_buffer);
-            output.write_all(&arr[..num_bytes])?;
+            let bytes = self.mini_buffer.to_le_bytes();
+            output.write_all(&bytes[..num_bytes])?;
             self.mini_buffer_written = 0;
+            self.mini_buffer = 0;
         }
         Ok(())
     }
@@ -59,21 +62,14 @@ impl BitPacker {
     }
 }
 
-#[derive(Clone)]
-pub struct BitUnpacker<Data>
-where
-    Data: Deref<Target = [u8]>,
-{
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default)]
+pub struct BitUnpacker {
     num_bits: u64,
     mask: u64,
-    data: Data,
 }
 
-impl<Data> BitUnpacker<Data>
-where
-    Data: Deref<Target = [u8]>,
-{
-    pub fn new(data: Data, num_bits: u8) -> BitUnpacker<Data> {
+impl BitUnpacker {
+    pub fn new(num_bits: u8) -> BitUnpacker {
         let mask: u64 = if num_bits == 64 {
             !0u64
         } else {
@@ -82,15 +78,14 @@ where
         BitUnpacker {
             num_bits: u64::from(num_bits),
             mask,
-            data,
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn get(&self, idx: u64) -> u64 {
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn get(&self, idx: u64, data: &[u8]) -> u64 {
         if self.num_bits == 0 {
             return 0u64;
         }
-        let data: &[u8] = &*self.data;
         let num_bits = self.num_bits;
         let mask = self.mask;
         let addr_in_bits = idx * num_bits;
@@ -100,7 +95,10 @@ where
             addr + 8 <= data.len() as u64,
             "The fast field field should have been padded with 7 bytes."
         );
-        let val_unshifted_unmasked: u64 = LittleEndian::read_u64(&data[(addr as usize)..]);
+        let bytes: [u8; 8] = (&data[(addr as usize)..(addr as usize) + 8])
+            .try_into()
+            .unwrap();
+        let val_unshifted_unmasked: u64 = u64::from_le_bytes(bytes);
         let val_shifted = (val_unshifted_unmasked >> bit_shift) as u64;
         val_shifted & mask
     }
@@ -110,7 +108,7 @@ where
 mod test {
     use super::{BitPacker, BitUnpacker};
 
-    fn create_fastfield_bitpacker(len: usize, num_bits: u8) -> (BitUnpacker<Vec<u8>>, Vec<u64>) {
+    fn create_fastfield_bitpacker(len: usize, num_bits: u8) -> (BitUnpacker, Vec<u64>, Vec<u8>) {
         let mut data = Vec::new();
         let mut bitpacker = BitPacker::new();
         let max_val: u64 = (1u64 << num_bits as u64) - 1u64;
@@ -122,14 +120,14 @@ mod test {
         }
         bitpacker.close(&mut data).unwrap();
         assert_eq!(data.len(), ((num_bits as usize) * len + 7) / 8 + 7);
-        let bitunpacker = BitUnpacker::new(data, num_bits);
-        (bitunpacker, vals)
+        let bitunpacker = BitUnpacker::new(num_bits);
+        (bitunpacker, vals, data)
     }
 
     fn test_bitpacker_util(len: usize, num_bits: u8) {
-        let (bitunpacker, vals) = create_fastfield_bitpacker(len, num_bits);
+        let (bitunpacker, vals, data) = create_fastfield_bitpacker(len, num_bits);
         for (i, val) in vals.iter().enumerate() {
-            assert_eq!(bitunpacker.get(i as u64), *val);
+            assert_eq!(bitunpacker.get(i as u64, &data), *val);
         }
     }
 

bitpacker/src/blocked_bitpacker.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+use crate::{minmax, BitUnpacker};
+
+use super::{bitpacker::BitPacker, compute_num_bits};
+
+const BLOCK_SIZE: usize = 128;
+
+/// `BlockedBitpacker` compresses data in blocks of
+/// 128 elements, while keeping an index on it
+///
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct BlockedBitpacker {
+    // bitpacked blocks
+    compressed_blocks: Vec<u8>,
+    // uncompressed data, collected until BLOCK_SIZE
+    buffer: Vec<u64>,
+    offset_and_bits: Vec<BlockedBitpackerEntryMetaData>,
+}
+impl Default for BlockedBitpacker {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        BlockedBitpacker::new()
+    }
+}
+
+/// `BlockedBitpackerEntryMetaData` encodes the
+/// offset and bit_width into a u64 bit field
+///
+/// This saves some space, since 7byte is more
+/// than enough and also keeps the access fast
+/// because of alignment
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
+struct BlockedBitpackerEntryMetaData {
+    encoded: u64,
+    base_value: u64,
+}
+
+impl BlockedBitpackerEntryMetaData {
+    fn new(offset: u64, num_bits: u8, base_value: u64) -> Self {
+        let encoded = offset | (num_bits as u64) << (64 - 8);
+        Self {
+            encoded,
+            base_value,
+        }
+    }
+    fn offset(&self) -> u64 {
+        (self.encoded << 8) >> 8
+    }
+    fn num_bits(&self) -> u8 {
+        (self.encoded >> 56) as u8
+    }
+    fn base_value(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.base_value
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn metadata_test() {
+    let meta = BlockedBitpackerEntryMetaData::new(50000, 6, 40000);
+    assert_eq!(meta.offset(), 50000);
+    assert_eq!(meta.num_bits(), 6);
+}
+
+impl BlockedBitpacker {
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        let mut compressed_blocks = vec![];
+        compressed_blocks.resize(8, 0);
+        Self {
+            compressed_blocks,
+            buffer: vec![],
+            offset_and_bits: vec![],
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The memory used (inclusive childs)
+    pub fn mem_usage(&self) -> usize {
+        std::mem::size_of::<BlockedBitpacker>()
+            + self.compressed_blocks.capacity()
+            + self.offset_and_bits.capacity()
+                * std::mem::size_of_val(&self.offset_and_bits.get(0).cloned().unwrap_or_default())
+            + self.buffer.capacity()
+                * std::mem::size_of_val(&self.buffer.get(0).cloned().unwrap_or_default())
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn add(&mut self, val: u64) {
+        self.buffer.push(val);
+        if self.buffer.len() == BLOCK_SIZE as usize {
+            self.flush();
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn flush(&mut self) {
+        if let Some((min_value, max_value)) = minmax(self.buffer.iter()) {
+            let mut bit_packer = BitPacker::new();
+            let num_bits_block = compute_num_bits(*max_value - min_value);
+            // todo performance: the padding handling could be done better, e.g. use a slice and
+            // return num_bytes written from bitpacker
+            self.compressed_blocks
+                .resize(self.compressed_blocks.len() - 8, 0); // remove padding for bitpacker
+            let offset = self.compressed_blocks.len() as u64;
+            // todo performance: for some bit_width we
+            // can encode multiple vals into the
+            // mini_buffer before checking to flush
+            // (to be done in BitPacker)
+            for val in self.buffer.iter() {
+                bit_packer
+                    .write(
+                        *val - min_value,
+                        num_bits_block,
+                        &mut self.compressed_blocks,
+                    )
+                    .expect("cannot write bitpacking to output"); // write to in memory can't fail
+            }
+            bit_packer.flush(&mut self.compressed_blocks).unwrap();
+            self.offset_and_bits
+                .push(BlockedBitpackerEntryMetaData::new(
+                    offset,
+                    num_bits_block,
+                    *min_value,
+                ));
+
+            self.buffer.clear();
+            self.compressed_blocks
+                .resize(self.compressed_blocks.len() + 8, 0); // add padding for bitpacker
+        }
+    }
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn get(&self, idx: usize) -> u64 {
+        let metadata_pos = idx / BLOCK_SIZE as usize;
+        let pos_in_block = idx % BLOCK_SIZE as usize;
+        if let Some(metadata) = self.offset_and_bits.get(metadata_pos) {
+            let unpacked = BitUnpacker::new(metadata.num_bits()).get(
+                pos_in_block as u64,
+                &self.compressed_blocks[metadata.offset() as usize..],
+            );
+            unpacked + metadata.base_value()
+        } else {
+            self.buffer[pos_in_block]
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn iter(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = u64> + '_ {
+        // todo performance: we could decompress a whole block and cache it instead
+        let bitpacked_elems = self.offset_and_bits.len() * BLOCK_SIZE;
+        let iter = (0..bitpacked_elems)
+            .map(move |idx| self.get(idx))
+            .chain(self.buffer.iter().cloned());
+        iter
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    #[test]
+    fn blocked_bitpacker_empty() {
+        let blocked_bitpacker = BlockedBitpacker::new();
+        assert_eq!(blocked_bitpacker.iter().collect::<Vec<u64>>(), vec![]);
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn blocked_bitpacker_one() {
+        let mut blocked_bitpacker = BlockedBitpacker::new();
+        blocked_bitpacker.add(50000);
+        assert_eq!(blocked_bitpacker.get(0), 50000);
+        assert_eq!(blocked_bitpacker.iter().collect::<Vec<u64>>(), vec![50000]);
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn blocked_bitpacker_test() {
+        let mut blocked_bitpacker = BlockedBitpacker::new();
+        for val in 0..21500 {
+            blocked_bitpacker.add(val);
+        }
+        for val in 0..21500 {
+            assert_eq!(blocked_bitpacker.get(val as usize), val);
+        }
+        assert_eq!(blocked_bitpacker.iter().count(), 21500);
+        assert_eq!(blocked_bitpacker.iter().last().unwrap(), 21499);
+    }
+}

bitpacker/src/lib.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+mod bitpacker;
+mod blocked_bitpacker;
+
+pub use crate::bitpacker::BitPacker;
+pub use crate::bitpacker::BitUnpacker;
+pub use crate::blocked_bitpacker::BlockedBitpacker;
+
+/// Computes the number of bits that will be used for bitpacking.
+///
+/// In general the target is the minimum number of bits
+/// required to express the amplitude given in argument.
+///
+/// e.g. If the amplitude is 10, we can store all ints on simply 4bits.
+///
+/// The logic is slightly more convoluted here as for optimization
+/// reasons, we want to ensure that a value spawns over at most 8 bytes
+/// of aligned bytes.
+///
+/// Spanning over 9 bytes is possible for instance, if we do
+/// bitpacking with an amplitude of 63 bits.
+/// In this case, the second int will start on bit
+/// 63 (which belongs to byte 7) and ends at byte 15;
+/// Hence 9 bytes (from byte 7 to byte 15 included).
+///
+/// To avoid this, we force the number of bits to 64bits
+/// when the result is greater than `64-8 = 56 bits`.
+///
+/// Note that this only affects rare use cases spawning over
+/// a very large range of values. Even in this case, it results
+/// in an extra cost of at most 12% compared to the optimal
+/// number of bits.
+pub fn compute_num_bits(n: u64) -> u8 {
+    let amplitude = (64u32 - n.leading_zeros()) as u8;
+    if amplitude <= 64 - 8 {
+        amplitude
+    } else {
+        64
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn minmax<I, T>(mut vals: I) -> Option<(T, T)>
+where
+    I: Iterator<Item = T>,
+    T: Copy + Ord,
+{
+    if let Some(first_el) = vals.next() {
+        return Some(vals.fold((first_el, first_el), |(min_val, max_val), el| {
+            (min_val.min(el), max_val.max(el))
+        }));
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_compute_num_bits() {
+    assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(1), 1u8);
+    assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(0), 0u8);
+    assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(2), 2u8);
+    assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(3), 2u8);
+    assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(4), 3u8);
+    assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(255), 8u8);
+    assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(256), 9u8);
+    assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(5_000_000_000), 33u8);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_minmax_empty() {
+    let vals: Vec<u32> = vec![];
+    assert_eq!(minmax(vals.into_iter()), None);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_minmax_one() {
+    assert_eq!(minmax(vec![1].into_iter()), Some((1, 1)));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_minmax_two() {
+    assert_eq!(minmax(vec![1, 2].into_iter()), Some((1, 2)));
+    assert_eq!(minmax(vec![2, 1].into_iter()), Some((1, 2)));
+}

common/Cargo.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[package]
+name = "tantivy-common"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["Paul Masurel <paul@quickwit.io>", "Pascal Seitz <pascal@quickwit.io>"]
+license = "MIT"
+edition = "2018"
+description = "common traits and utility functions used by multiple tantivy subcrates"
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]
+byteorder = "1.4.3"
+ownedbytes = { version="0.1", path="../ownedbytes" }
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+proptest = "1.0.0"
+rand = "0.8.4"

common/src/bitset.rs

@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-use std::fmt;
+use ownedbytes::OwnedBytes;
+use std::convert::TryInto;
+use std::io::Write;
 use std::u64;
+use std::{fmt, io};
 
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Eq, PartialEq)]
-pub(crate) struct TinySet(u64);
+pub struct TinySet(u64);
 
 impl fmt::Debug for TinySet {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
@@ -14,6 +17,7 @@ pub struct TinySetIterator(TinySet);
 impl Iterator for TinySetIterator {
     type Item = u32;
 
+    #[inline]
     fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
         self.0.pop_lowest()
     }
@@ -28,21 +32,54 @@ impl IntoIterator for TinySet {
 }
 
 impl TinySet {
+    pub fn serialize<T: Write>(&self, writer: &mut T) -> io::Result<()> {
+        writer.write_all(self.0.to_le_bytes().as_ref())
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn deserialize(data: [u8; 8]) -> io::Result<Self> {
+        let val: u64 = u64::from_le_bytes(data);
+        Ok(TinySet(val))
+    }
+
     /// Returns an empty `TinySet`.
+    #[inline]
     pub fn empty() -> TinySet {
         TinySet(0u64)
     }
 
+    /// Returns a full `TinySet`.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn full() -> TinySet {
+        TinySet::empty().complement()
+    }
+
+    pub fn clear(&mut self) {
+        self.0 = 0u64;
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
     /// Returns the complement of the set in `[0, 64[`.
+    ///
+    /// Careful on making this function public, as it will break the padding handling in the last
+    /// bucket.
     fn complement(self) -> TinySet {
         TinySet(!self.0)
     }
 
+    #[inline]
     /// Returns true iff the `TinySet` contains the element `el`.
     pub fn contains(self, el: u32) -> bool {
         !self.intersect(TinySet::singleton(el)).is_empty()
     }
 
+    #[inline]
+    /// Returns the number of elements in the TinySet.
+    pub fn len(self) -> u32 {
+        self.0.count_ones()
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
     /// Returns the intersection of `self` and `other`
     pub fn intersect(self, other: TinySet) -> TinySet {
         TinySet(self.0 & other.0)
@@ -50,40 +87,58 @@ impl TinySet {
 
     /// Creates a new `TinySet` containing only one element
     /// within `[0; 64[`
-    #[inline(always)]
+    #[inline]
     pub fn singleton(el: u32) -> TinySet {
         TinySet(1u64 << u64::from(el))
     }
 
-    /// Insert a new element within [0..64[
-    #[inline(always)]
+    /// Insert a new element within [0..64)
+    #[inline]
     pub fn insert(self, el: u32) -> TinySet {
         self.union(TinySet::singleton(el))
     }
 
-    /// Insert a new element within [0..64[
-    #[inline(always)]
+    /// Removes an element within [0..64)
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn remove(self, el: u32) -> TinySet {
+        self.intersect(TinySet::singleton(el).complement())
+    }
+
+    /// Insert a new element within [0..64)
+    ///
+    /// returns true if the set changed
+    #[inline]
     pub fn insert_mut(&mut self, el: u32) -> bool {
         let old = *self;
         *self = old.insert(el);
         old != *self
     }
 
+    /// Remove a element within [0..64)
+    ///
+    /// returns true if the set changed
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn remove_mut(&mut self, el: u32) -> bool {
+        let old = *self;
+        *self = old.remove(el);
+        old != *self
+    }
+
     /// Returns the union of two tinysets
-    #[inline(always)]
+    #[inline]
     pub fn union(self, other: TinySet) -> TinySet {
         TinySet(self.0 | other.0)
     }
 
     /// Returns true iff the `TinySet` is empty.
-    #[inline(always)]
+    #[inline]
     pub fn is_empty(self) -> bool {
         self.0 == 0u64
     }
 
     /// Returns the lowest element in the `TinySet`
     /// and removes it.
-    #[inline(always)]
+    #[inline]
     pub fn pop_lowest(&mut self) -> Option<u32> {
         if self.is_empty() {
             None
@@ -109,22 +164,12 @@ impl TinySet {
     pub fn range_greater_or_equal(from_included: u32) -> TinySet {
         TinySet::range_lower(from_included).complement()
     }
-
-    pub fn clear(&mut self) {
-        self.0 = 0u64;
-    }
-
-    pub fn len(self) -> u32 {
-        self.0.count_ones()
-    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct BitSet {
     tinysets: Box<[TinySet]>,
-    len: usize, //< Technically it should be u32, but we
-    // count multiple inserts.
-    // `usize` guards us from overflow.
+    len: u64,
     max_value: u32,
 }
 
@@ -133,8 +178,41 @@ fn num_buckets(max_val: u32) -> u32 {
 }
 
 impl BitSet {
+    /// serialize a `BitSet`.
+    ///
+    pub fn serialize<T: Write>(&self, writer: &mut T) -> io::Result<()> {
+        writer.write_all(self.max_value.to_le_bytes().as_ref())?;
+
+        for tinyset in self.tinysets.iter() {
+            tinyset.serialize(writer)?;
+        }
+        writer.flush()?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Deserialize a `BitSet`.
+    ///
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub fn deserialize(mut data: &[u8]) -> io::Result<Self> {
+        let max_value: u32 = u32::from_le_bytes(data[..4].try_into().unwrap());
+        data = &data[4..];
+
+        let mut len: u64 = 0;
+        let mut tinysets = vec![];
+        for chunk in data.chunks_exact(8) {
+            let tinyset = TinySet::deserialize(chunk.try_into().unwrap())?;
+            len += tinyset.len() as u64;
+            tinysets.push(tinyset);
+        }
+        Ok(BitSet {
+            tinysets: tinysets.into_boxed_slice(),
+            len,
+            max_value,
+        })
+    }
+
     /// Create a new `BitSet` that may contain elements
-    /// within `[0, max_val[`.
+    /// within `[0, max_val)`.
     pub fn with_max_value(max_value: u32) -> BitSet {
         let num_buckets = num_buckets(max_value);
         let tinybisets = vec![TinySet::empty(); num_buckets as usize].into_boxed_slice();
@@ -145,6 +223,23 @@ impl BitSet {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Create a new `BitSet` that may contain elements. Initially all values will be set.
+    /// within `[0, max_val)`.
+    pub fn with_max_value_and_full(max_value: u32) -> BitSet {
+        let num_buckets = num_buckets(max_value);
+        let mut tinybisets = vec![TinySet::full(); num_buckets as usize].into_boxed_slice();
+
+        // Fix padding
+        let lower = max_value % 64u32;
+        tinybisets[tinybisets.len() - 1] = TinySet::range_lower(lower);
+
+        BitSet {
+            tinysets: tinybisets,
+            len: max_value as u64,
+            max_value,
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Removes all elements from the `BitSet`.
     pub fn clear(&mut self) {
         for tinyset in self.tinysets.iter_mut() {
@@ -154,10 +249,11 @@ impl BitSet {
 
     /// Returns the number of elements in the `BitSet`.
     pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
-        self.len
+        self.len as usize
     }
 
     /// Inserts an element in the `BitSet`
+    #[inline]
     pub fn insert(&mut self, el: u32) {
         // we do not check saturated els.
         let higher = el / 64u32;
@@ -169,7 +265,21 @@ impl BitSet {
         };
     }
 
+    /// Inserts an element in the `BitSet`
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn remove(&mut self, el: u32) {
+        // we do not check saturated els.
+        let higher = el / 64u32;
+        let lower = el % 64u32;
+        self.len -= if self.tinysets[higher as usize].remove_mut(lower) {
+            1
+        } else {
+            0
+        };
+    }
+
     /// Returns true iff the elements is in the `BitSet`.
+    #[inline]
     pub fn contains(&self, el: u32) -> bool {
         self.tinyset(el / 64u32).contains(el % 64)
     }
@@ -179,7 +289,7 @@ impl BitSet {
     ///
     /// Reminder: the tiny set with the bucket `bucket`, represents the
     /// elements from `bucket * 64` to `(bucket+1) * 64`.
-    pub(crate) fn first_non_empty_bucket(&self, bucket: u32) -> Option<u32> {
+    pub fn first_non_empty_bucket(&self, bucket: u32) -> Option<u32> {
         self.tinysets[bucket as usize..]
             .iter()
             .cloned()
@@ -194,23 +304,149 @@ impl BitSet {
     /// Returns the tiny bitset representing the
     /// the set restricted to the number range from
     /// `bucket * 64` to `(bucket + 1) * 64`.
-    pub(crate) fn tinyset(&self, bucket: u32) -> TinySet {
+    pub fn tinyset(&self, bucket: u32) -> TinySet {
         self.tinysets[bucket as usize]
     }
 }
 
+/// Serialized BitSet.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct ReadSerializedBitSet {
+    data: OwnedBytes,
+    max_value: u32,
+}
+
+impl ReadSerializedBitSet {
+    pub fn open(data: OwnedBytes) -> Self {
+        let (max_value_data, data) = data.split(4);
+        let max_value: u32 = u32::from_le_bytes(max_value_data.as_ref().try_into().unwrap());
+        ReadSerializedBitSet { data, max_value }
+    }
+
+    /// Number of elements in the bitset.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.iter_tinysets()
+            .map(|tinyset| tinyset.len() as usize)
+            .sum()
+    }
+
+    /// Iterate the tinyset on the fly from serialized data.
+    ///
+    #[inline]
+    fn iter_tinysets<'a>(&'a self) -> impl Iterator<Item = TinySet> + 'a {
+        assert!((self.data.len()) % 8 == 0);
+        self.data.chunks_exact(8).map(move |chunk| {
+            let tinyset: TinySet = TinySet::deserialize(chunk.try_into().unwrap()).unwrap();
+            tinyset
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Iterate over the positions of the elements.
+    ///
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn iter<'a>(&'a self) -> impl Iterator<Item = u32> + 'a {
+        self.iter_tinysets()
+            .enumerate()
+            .flat_map(move |(chunk_num, tinyset)| {
+                let chunk_base_val = chunk_num as u32 * 64;
+                tinyset
+                    .into_iter()
+                    .map(move |val| val + chunk_base_val)
+                    .take_while(move |doc| *doc < self.max_value)
+            })
+    }
+
+    /// Returns true iff the elements is in the `BitSet`.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn contains(&self, el: u32) -> bool {
+        let byte_offset = el / 8u32;
+        let b: u8 = self.data[byte_offset as usize];
+        let shift = (el % 8) as u8;
+        b & (1u8 << shift) != 0
+    }
+
+    /// Maximum value the bitset may contain.
+    /// (Note this is not the maximum value contained in the set.)
+    ///
+    /// A bitset has an intrinsic capacity.
+    /// It only stores elements within [0..max_value).
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn max_value(&self) -> u32 {
+        self.max_value
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
 
     use super::BitSet;
+    use super::ReadSerializedBitSet;
     use super::TinySet;
-    use crate::docset::DocSet;
-    use crate::query::BitSetDocSet;
-    use crate::tests;
-    use crate::tests::generate_nonunique_unsorted;
-    use std::collections::BTreeSet;
+    use ownedbytes::OwnedBytes;
+    use rand::distributions::Bernoulli;
+    use rand::rngs::StdRng;
+    use rand::{Rng, SeedableRng};
     use std::collections::HashSet;
+    use std::convert::TryInto;
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_read_serialized_bitset_full() {
+        let mut bitset = BitSet::with_max_value_and_full(5);
+        bitset.remove(3);
+        let mut out = vec![];
+        bitset.serialize(&mut out).unwrap();
+
+        let bitset = ReadSerializedBitSet::open(OwnedBytes::new(out));
+        assert_eq!(bitset.len(), 4);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_read_serialized_bitset_empty() {
+        let mut bitset = BitSet::with_max_value(5);
+        bitset.insert(3);
+        let mut out = vec![];
+        bitset.serialize(&mut out).unwrap();
+
+        let bitset = ReadSerializedBitSet::open(OwnedBytes::new(out));
+        assert_eq!(bitset.len(), 1);
+
+        {
+            let bitset = BitSet::with_max_value(5);
+            let mut out = vec![];
+            bitset.serialize(&mut out).unwrap();
+            let bitset = ReadSerializedBitSet::open(OwnedBytes::new(out));
+            assert_eq!(bitset.len(), 0);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_tiny_set_remove() {
+        {
+            let mut u = TinySet::empty().insert(63u32).insert(5).remove(63u32);
+            assert_eq!(u.pop_lowest(), Some(5u32));
+            assert!(u.pop_lowest().is_none());
+        }
+        {
+            let mut u = TinySet::empty()
+                .insert(63u32)
+                .insert(1)
+                .insert(5)
+                .remove(63u32);
+            assert_eq!(u.pop_lowest(), Some(1u32));
+            assert_eq!(u.pop_lowest(), Some(5u32));
+            assert!(u.pop_lowest().is_none());
+        }
+        {
+            let mut u = TinySet::empty().insert(1).remove(63u32);
+            assert_eq!(u.pop_lowest(), Some(1u32));
+            assert!(u.pop_lowest().is_none());
+        }
+        {
+            let mut u = TinySet::empty().insert(1).remove(1u32);
+            assert!(u.pop_lowest().is_none());
+        }
+    }
     #[test]
     fn test_tiny_set() {
         assert!(TinySet::empty().is_empty());
@@ -236,6 +472,21 @@ mod tests {
             assert_eq!(u.pop_lowest(), Some(63u32));
             assert!(u.pop_lowest().is_none());
         }
+        {
+            let mut u = TinySet::empty().insert(63u32).insert(5);
+            assert_eq!(u.pop_lowest(), Some(5u32));
+            assert_eq!(u.pop_lowest(), Some(63u32));
+            assert!(u.pop_lowest().is_none());
+        }
+        {
+            let u = TinySet::empty().insert(63u32).insert(5);
+            let mut data = vec![];
+            u.serialize(&mut data).unwrap();
+            let mut u = TinySet::deserialize(data[..8].try_into().unwrap()).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(u.pop_lowest(), Some(5u32));
+            assert_eq!(u.pop_lowest(), Some(63u32));
+            assert!(u.pop_lowest().is_none());
+        }
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -252,6 +503,16 @@ mod tests {
                 assert_eq!(hashset.contains(&el), bitset.contains(el));
             }
             assert_eq!(bitset.max_value(), max_value);
+
+            // test deser
+            let mut data = vec![];
+            bitset.serialize(&mut data).unwrap();
+            let bitset = BitSet::deserialize(&data).unwrap();
+            for el in 0..max_value {
+                assert_eq!(hashset.contains(&el), bitset.contains(el));
+            }
+            assert_eq!(bitset.max_value(), max_value);
+            assert_eq!(bitset.len(), els.len());
         };
 
         test_against_hashset(&[], 0);
@@ -264,27 +525,6 @@ mod tests {
         test_against_hashset(&[62u32, 63u32], 64);
     }
 
-    #[test]
-    fn test_bitset_large() {
-        let arr = generate_nonunique_unsorted(100_000, 5_000);
-        let mut btreeset: BTreeSet<u32> = BTreeSet::new();
-        let mut bitset = BitSet::with_max_value(100_000);
-        for el in arr {
-            btreeset.insert(el);
-            bitset.insert(el);
-        }
-        for i in 0..100_000 {
-            assert_eq!(btreeset.contains(&i), bitset.contains(i));
-        }
-        assert_eq!(btreeset.len(), bitset.len());
-        let mut bitset_docset = BitSetDocSet::from(bitset);
-        for el in btreeset.into_iter() {
-            bitset_docset.advance();
-            assert_eq!(bitset_docset.doc(), el);
-        }
-        assert!(!bitset_docset.advance());
-    }
-
     #[test]
     fn test_bitset_num_buckets() {
         use super::num_buckets;
@@ -337,12 +577,33 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(bitset.len(), 2);
         bitset.insert(104u32);
         assert_eq!(bitset.len(), 3);
+        bitset.remove(105u32);
+        assert_eq!(bitset.len(), 3);
+        bitset.remove(104u32);
+        assert_eq!(bitset.len(), 2);
+        bitset.remove(3u32);
+        assert_eq!(bitset.len(), 1);
+        bitset.remove(103u32);
+        assert_eq!(bitset.len(), 0);
+    }
+
+    pub fn sample_with_seed(n: u32, ratio: f64, seed_val: u8) -> Vec<u32> {
+        StdRng::from_seed([seed_val; 32])
+            .sample_iter(&Bernoulli::new(ratio).unwrap())
+            .take(n as usize)
+            .enumerate()
+            .filter_map(|(val, keep)| if keep { Some(val as u32) } else { None })
+            .collect()
+    }
+
+    pub fn sample(n: u32, ratio: f64) -> Vec<u32> {
+        sample_with_seed(n, ratio, 4)
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_bitset_clear() {
         let mut bitset = BitSet::with_max_value(1_000);
-        let els = tests::sample(1_000, 0.01f64);
+        let els = sample(1_000, 0.01f64);
         for &el in &els {
             bitset.insert(el);
         }

common/src/lib.rs

@@ -1,59 +1,16 @@
-pub mod bitpacker;
-mod bitset;
-mod composite_file;
-mod counting_writer;
-mod serialize;
-mod vint;
+use std::ops::Deref;
 
-pub use self::bitset::BitSet;
-pub(crate) use self::bitset::TinySet;
-pub(crate) use self::composite_file::{CompositeFile, CompositeWrite};
-pub use self::counting_writer::CountingWriter;
-pub use self::serialize::{BinarySerializable, FixedSize};
-pub use self::vint::{read_u32_vint, serialize_vint_u32, write_u32_vint, VInt};
 pub use byteorder::LittleEndian as Endianness;
 
-/// Segment's max doc must be `< MAX_DOC_LIMIT`.
-///
-/// We do not allow segments with more than
-pub const MAX_DOC_LIMIT: u32 = 1 << 31;
+mod bitset;
+mod serialize;
+mod vint;
+mod writer;
 
-/// Computes the number of bits that will be used for bitpacking.
-///
-/// In general the target is the minimum number of bits
-/// required to express the amplitude given in argument.
-///
-/// e.g. If the amplitude is 10, we can store all ints on simply 4bits.
-///
-/// The logic is slightly more convoluted here as for optimization
-/// reasons, we want to ensure that a value spawns over at most 8 bytes
-/// of aligns bytes.
-///
-/// Spanning over 9 bytes is possible for instance, if we do
-/// bitpacking with an amplitude of 63 bits.
-/// In this case, the second int will start on bit
-/// 63 (which belongs to byte 7) and ends at byte 15;
-/// Hence 9 bytes (from byte 7 to byte 15 included).
-///
-/// To avoid this, we force the number of bits to 64bits
-/// when the result is greater than `64-8 = 56 bits`.
-///
-/// Note that this only affects rare use cases spawning over
-/// a very large range of values. Even in this case, it results
-/// in an extra cost of at most 12% compared to the optimal
-/// number of bits.
-pub(crate) fn compute_num_bits(n: u64) -> u8 {
-    let amplitude = (64u32 - n.leading_zeros()) as u8;
-    if amplitude <= 64 - 8 {
-        amplitude
-    } else {
-        64
-    }
-}
-
-pub(crate) fn is_power_of_2(n: usize) -> bool {
-    (n > 0) && (n & (n - 1) == 0)
-}
+pub use bitset::*;
+pub use serialize::{BinarySerializable, DeserializeFrom, FixedSize};
+pub use vint::{read_u32_vint, read_u32_vint_no_advance, serialize_vint_u32, write_u32_vint, VInt};
+pub use writer::{AntiCallToken, CountingWriter, TerminatingWrite};
 
 /// Has length trait
 pub trait HasLen {
@@ -66,6 +23,12 @@ pub trait HasLen {
     }
 }
 
+impl<T: Deref<Target = [u8]>> HasLen for T {
+    fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.deref().len()
+    }
+}
+
 const HIGHEST_BIT: u64 = 1 << 63;
 
 /// Maps a `i64` to `u64`
@@ -88,13 +51,13 @@ const HIGHEST_BIT: u64 = 1 << 63;
 ///
 /// # See also
 /// The [reverse mapping is `u64_to_i64`](./fn.u64_to_i64.html).
-#[inline(always)]
+#[inline]
 pub fn i64_to_u64(val: i64) -> u64 {
     (val as u64) ^ HIGHEST_BIT
 }
 
 /// Reverse the mapping given by [`i64_to_u64`](./fn.i64_to_u64.html).
-#[inline(always)]
+#[inline]
 pub fn u64_to_i64(val: u64) -> i64 {
     (val ^ HIGHEST_BIT) as i64
 }
@@ -104,14 +67,19 @@ pub fn u64_to_i64(val: u64) -> i64 {
 /// For simplicity, tantivy internally handles `f64` as `u64`.
 /// The mapping is defined by this function.
 ///
-/// Maps `f64` to `u64` so that lexical order is preserved.
+/// Maps `f64` to `u64` in a monotonic manner, so that bytes lexical order is preserved.
 ///
 /// This is more suited than simply casting (`val as u64`)
 /// which would truncate the result
 ///
+/// # Reference
+///
+/// Daniel Lemire's [blog post](https://lemire.me/blog/2020/12/14/converting-floating-point-numbers-to-integers-while-preserving-order/)
+/// explains the mapping in a clear manner.
+///
 /// # See also
 /// The [reverse mapping is `u64_to_f64`](./fn.u64_to_f64.html).
-#[inline(always)]
+#[inline]
 pub fn f64_to_u64(val: f64) -> u64 {
     let bits = val.to_bits();
     if val.is_sign_positive() {
@@ -122,7 +90,7 @@ pub fn f64_to_u64(val: f64) -> u64 {
 }
 
 /// Reverse the mapping given by [`i64_to_u64`](./fn.i64_to_u64.html).
-#[inline(always)]
+#[inline]
 pub fn u64_to_f64(val: u64) -> f64 {
     f64::from_bits(if val & HIGHEST_BIT != 0 {
         val ^ HIGHEST_BIT
@@ -132,10 +100,11 @@ pub fn u64_to_f64(val: u64) -> f64 {
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
-pub(crate) mod test {
+pub mod test {
 
-    pub use super::serialize::test::fixed_size_test;
-    use super::{compute_num_bits, f64_to_u64, i64_to_u64, u64_to_f64, u64_to_i64};
+    use super::{f64_to_u64, i64_to_u64, u64_to_f64, u64_to_i64};
+    use super::{BinarySerializable, FixedSize};
+    use proptest::prelude::*;
     use std::f64;
 
     fn test_i64_converter_helper(val: i64) {
@@ -146,6 +115,21 @@ pub(crate) mod test {
         assert_eq!(u64_to_f64(f64_to_u64(val)), val);
     }
 
+    pub fn fixed_size_test<O: BinarySerializable + FixedSize + Default>() {
+        let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+        O::default().serialize(&mut buffer).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(buffer.len(), O::SIZE_IN_BYTES);
+    }
+
+    proptest! {
+        #[test]
+        fn test_f64_converter_monotonicity_proptest((left, right) in (proptest::num::f64::NORMAL, proptest::num::f64::NORMAL)) {
+            let left_u64 = f64_to_u64(left);
+            let right_u64 = f64_to_u64(right);
+            assert_eq!(left_u64 < right_u64,  left < right);
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_i64_converter() {
         assert_eq!(i64_to_u64(i64::min_value()), u64::min_value());
@@ -180,23 +164,4 @@ pub(crate) mod test {
         assert!(f64_to_u64(-2.0) < f64_to_u64(1.0));
         assert!(f64_to_u64(-2.0) < f64_to_u64(-1.5));
     }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_compute_num_bits() {
-        assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(1), 1u8);
-        assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(0), 0u8);
-        assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(2), 2u8);
-        assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(3), 2u8);
-        assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(4), 3u8);
-        assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(255), 8u8);
-        assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(256), 9u8);
-        assert_eq!(compute_num_bits(5_000_000_000), 33u8);
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_max_doc() {
-        // this is the first time I write a unit test for a constant.
-        assert!(((super::MAX_DOC_LIMIT - 1) as i32) >= 0);
-        assert!((super::MAX_DOC_LIMIT as i32) < 0);
-    }
 }

common/src/serialize.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-use crate::common::Endianness;
-use crate::common::VInt;
+use crate::Endianness;
+use crate::VInt;
 use byteorder::{ReadBytesExt, WriteBytesExt};
 use std::fmt;
 use std::io;
@@ -14,6 +14,20 @@ pub trait BinarySerializable: fmt::Debug + Sized {
     fn deserialize<R: Read>(reader: &mut R) -> io::Result<Self>;
 }
 
+pub trait DeserializeFrom<T: BinarySerializable> {
+    fn deserialize(&mut self) -> io::Result<T>;
+}
+
+/// Implement deserialize from &[u8] for all types which implement BinarySerializable.
+///
+/// TryFrom would actually be preferrable, but not possible because of the orphan
+/// rules (not completely sure if this could be resolved)
+impl<T: BinarySerializable> DeserializeFrom<T> for &[u8] {
+    fn deserialize(&mut self) -> io::Result<T> {
+        T::deserialize(self)
+    }
+}
+
 /// `FixedSize` marks a `BinarySerializable` as
 /// always serializing to the same size.
 pub trait FixedSize: BinarySerializable {
@@ -61,6 +75,11 @@ impl<Left: BinarySerializable, Right: BinarySerializable> BinarySerializable for
         Ok((Left::deserialize(reader)?, Right::deserialize(reader)?))
     }
 }
+impl<Left: BinarySerializable + FixedSize, Right: BinarySerializable + FixedSize> FixedSize
+    for (Left, Right)
+{
+    const SIZE_IN_BYTES: usize = Left::SIZE_IN_BYTES + Right::SIZE_IN_BYTES;
+}
 
 impl BinarySerializable for u32 {
     fn serialize<W: Write>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
@@ -89,6 +108,19 @@ impl FixedSize for u64 {
     const SIZE_IN_BYTES: usize = 8;
 }
 
+impl BinarySerializable for f32 {
+    fn serialize<W: Write>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
+        writer.write_f32::<Endianness>(*self)
+    }
+    fn deserialize<R: Read>(reader: &mut R) -> io::Result<Self> {
+        reader.read_f32::<Endianness>()
+    }
+}
+
+impl FixedSize for f32 {
+    const SIZE_IN_BYTES: usize = 4;
+}
+
 impl BinarySerializable for i64 {
     fn serialize<W: Write>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
         writer.write_i64::<Endianness>(*self)
@@ -128,6 +160,28 @@ impl FixedSize for u8 {
     const SIZE_IN_BYTES: usize = 1;
 }
 
+impl BinarySerializable for bool {
+    fn serialize<W: Write>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
+        let val = if *self { 1 } else { 0 };
+        writer.write_u8(val)
+    }
+    fn deserialize<R: Read>(reader: &mut R) -> io::Result<bool> {
+        let val = reader.read_u8()?;
+        match val {
+            0 => Ok(false),
+            1 => Ok(true),
+            _ => Err(io::Error::new(
+                io::ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+                "invalid bool value on deserialization, data corrupted",
+            )),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl FixedSize for bool {
+    const SIZE_IN_BYTES: usize = 1;
+}
+
 impl BinarySerializable for String {
     fn serialize<W: Write>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
         let data: &[u8] = self.as_bytes();
@@ -148,9 +202,9 @@ impl BinarySerializable for String {
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub mod test {
 
+    use super::VInt;
     use super::*;
-    use crate::common::VInt;
-
+    use crate::serialize::BinarySerializable;
     pub fn fixed_size_test<O: BinarySerializable + FixedSize + Default>() {
         let mut buffer = Vec::new();
         O::default().serialize(&mut buffer).unwrap();

common/src/vint.rs

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ use std::io::Read;
 use std::io::Write;
 
 ///   Wrapper over a `u64` that serializes as a variable int.
-#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
 pub struct VInt(pub u64);
 
 const STOP_BIT: u8 = 128;
 
-pub fn serialize_vint_u32(val: u32) -> (u64, usize) {
+pub fn serialize_vint_u32(val: u32, buf: &mut [u8; 8]) -> &[u8] {
     const START_2: u64 = 1 << 7;
     const START_3: u64 = 1 << 14;
     const START_4: u64 = 1 << 21;
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ pub fn serialize_vint_u32(val: u32) -> (u64, usize) {
 
     let val = u64::from(val);
     const STOP_BIT: u64 = 128u64;
-    match val {
+    let (res, num_bytes) = match val {
         0..=STOP_1 => (val | STOP_BIT, 1),
         START_2..=STOP_2 => (
             (val & MASK_1) | ((val & MASK_2) << 1) | (STOP_BIT << (8)),
@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ pub fn serialize_vint_u32(val: u32) -> (u64, usize) {
                 | (STOP_BIT << (8 * 4)),
             5,
         ),
-    }
+    };
+    LittleEndian::write_u64(&mut buf[..], res);
+    &buf[0..num_bytes]
 }
 
 /// Returns the number of bytes covered by a
@@ -85,23 +87,26 @@ fn vint_len(data: &[u8]) -> usize {
 /// If the buffer does not start by a valid
 /// vint payload
 pub fn read_u32_vint(data: &mut &[u8]) -> u32 {
-    let vlen = vint_len(*data);
+    let (result, vlen) = read_u32_vint_no_advance(*data);
+    *data = &data[vlen..];
+    result
+}
+
+pub fn read_u32_vint_no_advance(data: &[u8]) -> (u32, usize) {
+    let vlen = vint_len(data);
     let mut result = 0u32;
     let mut shift = 0u64;
     for &b in &data[..vlen] {
         result |= u32::from(b & 127u8) << shift;
         shift += 7;
     }
-    *data = &data[vlen..];
-    result
+    (result, vlen)
 }
-
 /// Write a `u32` as a vint payload.
 pub fn write_u32_vint<W: io::Write>(val: u32, writer: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
-    let (val, num_bytes) = serialize_vint_u32(val);
-    let mut buffer = [0u8; 8];
-    LittleEndian::write_u64(&mut buffer, val);
-    writer.write_all(&buffer[..num_bytes])
+    let mut buf = [0u8; 8];
+    let data = serialize_vint_u32(val, &mut buf);
+    writer.write_all(data)
 }
 
 impl VInt {
@@ -170,15 +175,14 @@ impl BinarySerializable for VInt {
 mod tests {
 
     use super::serialize_vint_u32;
+    use super::BinarySerializable;
     use super::VInt;
-    use crate::common::BinarySerializable;
-    use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian};
 
     fn aux_test_vint(val: u64) {
         let mut v = [14u8; 10];
         let num_bytes = VInt(val).serialize_into(&mut v);
-        for i in num_bytes..10 {
-            assert_eq!(v[i], 14u8);
+        for el in &v[num_bytes..10] {
+            assert_eq!(el, &14u8);
         }
         assert!(num_bytes > 0);
         if num_bytes < 10 {
@@ -208,12 +212,10 @@ mod tests {
 
     fn aux_test_serialize_vint_u32(val: u32) {
         let mut buffer = [0u8; 10];
-        let mut buffer2 = [0u8; 10];
+        let mut buffer2 = [0u8; 8];
         let len_vint = VInt(val as u64).serialize_into(&mut buffer);
-        let (vint, len) = serialize_vint_u32(val);
-        assert_eq!(len, len_vint, "len wrong for val {}", val);
-        LittleEndian::write_u64(&mut buffer2, vint);
-        assert_eq!(&buffer[..len], &buffer2[..len], "array wrong for {}", val);
+        let res2 = serialize_vint_u32(val, &mut buffer2);
+        assert_eq!(&buffer[..len_vint], res2, "array wrong for {}", val);
     }
 
     #[test]

common/src/writer.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+use std::io::{self, BufWriter, Write};
+
+pub struct CountingWriter<W> {
+    underlying: W,
+    written_bytes: u64,
+}
+
+impl<W: Write> CountingWriter<W> {
+    pub fn wrap(underlying: W) -> CountingWriter<W> {
+        CountingWriter {
+            underlying,
+            written_bytes: 0,
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn written_bytes(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.written_bytes
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the underlying write object.
+    /// Note that this method does not trigger any flushing.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn finish(self) -> W {
+        self.underlying
+    }
+}
+
+impl<W: Write> Write for CountingWriter<W> {
+    #[inline]
+    fn write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> io::Result<usize> {
+        let written_size = self.underlying.write(buf)?;
+        self.written_bytes += written_size as u64;
+        Ok(written_size)
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    fn write_all(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.underlying.write_all(buf)?;
+        self.written_bytes += buf.len() as u64;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    fn flush(&mut self) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.underlying.flush()
+    }
+}
+
+impl<W: TerminatingWrite> TerminatingWrite for CountingWriter<W> {
+    #[inline]
+    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, token: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.underlying.terminate_ref(token)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Struct used to prevent from calling [`terminate_ref`](trait.TerminatingWrite#method.terminate_ref) directly
+///
+/// The point is that while the type is public, it cannot be built by anyone
+/// outside of this module.
+pub struct AntiCallToken(());
+
+/// Trait used to indicate when no more write need to be done on a writer
+pub trait TerminatingWrite: Write {
+    /// Indicate that the writer will no longer be used. Internally call terminate_ref.
+    fn terminate(mut self) -> io::Result<()>
+    where
+        Self: Sized,
+    {
+        self.terminate_ref(AntiCallToken(()))
+    }
+
+    /// You should implement this function to define custom behavior.
+    /// This function should flush any buffer it may hold.
+    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, _: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()>;
+}
+
+impl<W: TerminatingWrite + ?Sized> TerminatingWrite for Box<W> {
+    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, token: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.as_mut().terminate_ref(token)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<W: TerminatingWrite> TerminatingWrite for BufWriter<W> {
+    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, a: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.flush()?;
+        self.get_mut().terminate_ref(a)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a> TerminatingWrite for &'a mut Vec<u8> {
+    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, _a: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.flush()
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod test {
+
+    use super::CountingWriter;
+    use std::io::Write;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_counting_writer() {
+        let buffer: Vec<u8> = vec![];
+        let mut counting_writer = CountingWriter::wrap(buffer);
+        let bytes = (0u8..10u8).collect::<Vec<u8>>();
+        counting_writer.write_all(&bytes).unwrap();
+        let len = counting_writer.written_bytes();
+        let buffer_restituted: Vec<u8> = counting_writer.finish();
+        assert_eq!(len, 10u64);
+        assert_eq!(buffer_restituted.len(), 10);
+    }
+}

doc/src/SUMMARY.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - [Segments](./basis.md)
 - [Defining your schema](./schema.md)
 - [Facetting](./facetting.md)
+- [Index Sorting](./index_sorting.md)
 - [Innerworkings](./innerworkings.md)
   - [Inverted index](./inverted_index.md)
 - [Best practise](./inverted_index.md)

doc/src/index_sorting.md

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+
+- [Index Sorting](#index-sorting)
+    + [Why Sorting](#why-sorting)
+        * [Compression](#compression)
+        * [Top-N Optimization](#top-n-optimization)
+        * [Pruning](#pruning)
+        * [Other](#other)
+    + [Usage](#usage)
+
+# Index Sorting
+
+Tantivy allows you to sort the index according to a property.
+
+## Why Sorting
+
+Presorting an index has several advantages:
+
+###### Compression
+
+When data is sorted it is easier to compress the data. E.g. the numbers sequence [5, 2, 3, 1, 4] would be sorted to [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. 
+If we apply delta encoding this list would be unsorted [5, -3, 1, -2, 3] vs. [1, 1, 1, 1, 1].
+Compression ratio is mainly affected on the fast field of the sorted property, every thing else is likely unaffected. 
+###### Top-N Optimization
+
+When data is presorted by a field and search queries request sorting by the same field, we can leverage the natural order of the documents. 
+E.g. if the data is sorted by timestamp and want the top n newest docs containing a term, we can simply leveraging the order of the docids.
+
+Note: Tantivy 0.16 does not do this optimization yet.
+
+###### Pruning
+
+Let's say we want all documents and want to apply the filter `>= 2010-08-11`. When the data is sorted, we could make a lookup in the fast field to find the docid range and use this as the filter.
+
+Note: Tantivy 0.16 does not do this optimization yet.
+
+###### Other?
+
+In principle there are many algorithms possible that exploit the monotonically increasing nature. (aggregations maybe?)
+
+## Usage
+The index sorting can be configured setting [`sort_by_field`](https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy/blob/000d76b11a139a84b16b9b95060a1c93e8b9851c/src/core/index_meta.rs#L238) on `IndexSettings` and passing it to a `IndexBuilder`. As of tantvy 0.16 only fast fields are allowed to be used.
+
+```
+let settings = IndexSettings {
+    sort_by_field: Some(IndexSortByField {
+        field: "intval".to_string(),
+        order: Order::Desc,
+    }),
+    ..Default::default()
+};
+let mut index_builder = Index::builder().schema(schema);
+index_builder = index_builder.settings(settings);
+let index = index_builder.create_in_ram().unwrap();
+```
+
+## Implementation details
+
+Sorting an index is applied in the serialization step. In general there are two serialization steps: [Finishing a single segment](https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy/blob/000d76b11a139a84b16b9b95060a1c93e8b9851c/src/indexer/segment_writer.rs#L338) and [merging multiple segments](https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy/blob/000d76b11a139a84b16b9b95060a1c93e8b9851c/src/indexer/merger.rs#L1073).
+
+In both cases we generate a docid mapping reflecting the sort. This mapping is used when serializing the different components (doc store, fastfields, posting list, normfield, facets).
+

examples/basic_search.rs

@@ -112,18 +112,6 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
             limbs and branches that arch over the pool"
     ));
 
-    index_writer.add_document(doc!(
-    title => "Of Mice and Men",
-    body => "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside \
-            bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling \
-            over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one \
-            side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky \
-            Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees—willows \
-            fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the \
-            debris of the winter’s flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent \
-            limbs and branches that arch over the pool"
-    ));
-
     // Multivalued field just need to be repeated.
     index_writer.add_document(doc!(
     title => "Frankenstein",

examples/custom_collector.rs

@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
 // ---
 // Importing tantivy...
 use tantivy::collector::{Collector, SegmentCollector};
-use tantivy::fastfield::FastFieldReader;
+use tantivy::fastfield::{DynamicFastFieldReader, FastFieldReader};
 use tantivy::query::QueryParser;
 use tantivy::schema::Field;
 use tantivy::schema::{Schema, FAST, INDEXED, TEXT};
-use tantivy::{doc, Index, SegmentReader, TantivyError};
+use tantivy::{doc, Index, Score, SegmentReader};
 
 #[derive(Default)]
 struct Stats {
@@ -72,16 +72,7 @@ impl Collector for StatsCollector {
         _segment_local_id: u32,
         segment_reader: &SegmentReader,
     ) -> tantivy::Result<StatsSegmentCollector> {
-        let fast_field_reader = segment_reader
-            .fast_fields()
-            .u64(self.field)
-            .ok_or_else(|| {
-                let field_name = segment_reader.schema().get_field_name(self.field);
-                TantivyError::SchemaError(format!(
-                    "Field {:?} is not a u64 fast field.",
-                    field_name
-                ))
-            })?;
+        let fast_field_reader = segment_reader.fast_fields().u64(self.field)?;
         Ok(StatsSegmentCollector {
             fast_field_reader,
             stats: Stats::default(),
@@ -95,26 +86,24 @@ impl Collector for StatsCollector {
 
     fn merge_fruits(&self, segment_stats: Vec<Option<Stats>>) -> tantivy::Result<Option<Stats>> {
         let mut stats = Stats::default();
-        for segment_stats_opt in segment_stats {
-            if let Some(segment_stats) = segment_stats_opt {
-                stats.count += segment_stats.count;
-                stats.sum += segment_stats.sum;
-                stats.squared_sum += segment_stats.squared_sum;
-            }
+        for segment_stats in segment_stats.into_iter().flatten() {
+            stats.count += segment_stats.count;
+            stats.sum += segment_stats.sum;
+            stats.squared_sum += segment_stats.squared_sum;
         }
         Ok(stats.non_zero_count())
     }
 }
 
 struct StatsSegmentCollector {
-    fast_field_reader: FastFieldReader<u64>,
+    fast_field_reader: DynamicFastFieldReader<u64>,
     stats: Stats,
 }
 
 impl SegmentCollector for StatsSegmentCollector {
     type Fruit = Option<Stats>;
 
-    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, _score: f32) {
+    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, _score: Score) {
         let value = self.fast_field_reader.get(doc) as f64;
         self.stats.count += 1;
         self.stats.sum += value;
@@ -148,7 +137,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
     //
     // Lets index a bunch of fake documents for the sake of
     // this example.
-    let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema.clone());
+    let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
 
     let mut index_writer = index.writer(50_000_000)?;
     index_writer.add_document(doc!(

examples/deleting_updating_documents.rs

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
 
     let frankenstein_isbn = Term::from_field_text(isbn, "978-9176370711");
 
-    // Oops our frankenstein doc seems mispelled
+    // Oops our frankenstein doc seems misspelled
     let frankenstein_doc_misspelled = extract_doc_given_isbn(&reader, &frankenstein_isbn)?.unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
         schema.to_json(&frankenstein_doc_misspelled),

examples/faceted_search.rs

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
 
     let name = schema_builder.add_text_field("felin_name", TEXT | STORED);
     // this is our faceted field: its scientific classification
-    let classification = schema_builder.add_facet_field("classification");
+    let classification = schema_builder.add_facet_field("classification", INDEXED);
 
     let schema = schema_builder.build();
     let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
 
     // Check the reference doc for different ways to create a `Facet` object.
     {
-        let facet = Facet::from_text("/Felidae/Pantherinae");
+        let facet = Facet::from("/Felidae/Pantherinae");
         let facet_term = Term::from_facet(classification, &facet);
         let facet_term_query = TermQuery::new(facet_term, IndexRecordOption::Basic);
         let mut facet_collector = FacetCollector::for_field(classification);

examples/faceted_search_with_tweaked_score.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+use tantivy::collector::TopDocs;
+use tantivy::doc;
+use tantivy::query::BooleanQuery;
+use tantivy::schema::*;
+use tantivy::{DocId, Index, Score, SegmentReader};
+
+fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
+    let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+
+    let title = schema_builder.add_text_field("title", STORED);
+    let ingredient = schema_builder.add_facet_field("ingredient", INDEXED);
+
+    let schema = schema_builder.build();
+    let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+
+    let mut index_writer = index.writer(30_000_000)?;
+
+    index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+        title => "Fried egg",
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/egg"),
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/oil"),
+    ));
+    index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+        title => "Scrambled egg",
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/egg"),
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/butter"),
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/milk"),
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/salt"),
+    ));
+    index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+        title => "Egg rolls",
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/egg"),
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/garlic"),
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/salt"),
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/oil"),
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/tortilla-wrap"),
+        ingredient => Facet::from("/ingredient/mushroom"),
+    ));
+    index_writer.commit()?;
+
+    let reader = index.reader()?;
+    let searcher = reader.searcher();
+    {
+        let facets = vec![
+            Facet::from("/ingredient/egg"),
+            Facet::from("/ingredient/oil"),
+            Facet::from("/ingredient/garlic"),
+            Facet::from("/ingredient/mushroom"),
+        ];
+        let query = BooleanQuery::new_multiterms_query(
+            facets
+                .iter()
+                .map(|key| Term::from_facet(ingredient, key))
+                .collect(),
+        );
+        let top_docs_by_custom_score =
+            TopDocs::with_limit(2).tweak_score(move |segment_reader: &SegmentReader| {
+                let ingredient_reader = segment_reader.facet_reader(ingredient).unwrap();
+                let facet_dict = ingredient_reader.facet_dict();
+
+                let query_ords: HashSet<u64> = facets
+                    .iter()
+                    .filter_map(|key| facet_dict.term_ord(key.encoded_str()).unwrap())
+                    .collect();
+
+                let mut facet_ords_buffer: Vec<u64> = Vec::with_capacity(20);
+
+                move |doc: DocId, original_score: Score| {
+                    ingredient_reader.facet_ords(doc, &mut facet_ords_buffer);
+                    let missing_ingredients = facet_ords_buffer
+                        .iter()
+                        .filter(|ord| !query_ords.contains(ord))
+                        .count();
+                    let tweak = 1.0 / 4_f32.powi(missing_ingredients as i32);
+
+                    original_score * tweak
+                }
+            });
+        let top_docs = searcher.search(&query, &top_docs_by_custom_score)?;
+
+        let titles: Vec<String> = top_docs
+            .iter()
+            .map(|(_, doc_id)| {
+                searcher
+                    .doc(*doc_id)
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .get_first(title)
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .text()
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .to_owned()
+            })
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(titles, vec!["Fried egg", "Egg rolls"]);
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}

examples/iterating_docs_and_positions.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// # Iterating docs and positioms.
+// # Iterating docs and positions.
 //
 // At its core of tantivy, relies on a data structure
 // called an inverted index.
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 // ---
 // Importing tantivy...
 use tantivy::schema::*;
-use tantivy::{doc, DocId, DocSet, Index, Postings};
+use tantivy::{doc, DocSet, Index, Postings, TERMINATED};
 
 fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
     // We first create a schema for the sake of the
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
     let title = schema_builder.add_text_field("title", TEXT | STORED);
     let schema = schema_builder.build();
 
-    let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema.clone());
+    let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
 
     let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 50_000_000)?;
     index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Old Man and the Sea"));
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
         // Inverted index stands for the combination of
         // - the term dictionary
         // - the inverted lists associated to each terms and their positions
-        let inverted_index = segment_reader.inverted_index(title);
+        let inverted_index = segment_reader.inverted_index(title)?;
 
         // A `Term` is a text token associated with a field.
         // Let's go through all docs containing the term `title:the` and access their position
@@ -58,16 +58,15 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
         // If you don't need all this information, you may get better performance by decompressing less
         // information.
         if let Some(mut segment_postings) =
-            inverted_index.read_postings(&term_the, IndexRecordOption::WithFreqsAndPositions)
+            inverted_index.read_postings(&term_the, IndexRecordOption::WithFreqsAndPositions)?
         {
             // this buffer will be used to request for positions
             let mut positions: Vec<u32> = Vec::with_capacity(100);
-            while segment_postings.advance() {
-                // the number of time the term appears in the document.
-                let doc_id: DocId = segment_postings.doc(); //< do not try to access this before calling advance once.
-
+            let mut doc_id = segment_postings.doc();
+            while doc_id != TERMINATED {
                 // This MAY contains deleted documents as well.
                 if segment_reader.is_deleted(doc_id) {
+                    doc_id = segment_postings.advance();
                     continue;
                 }
 
@@ -86,6 +85,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
                 // Doc 2: TermFreq 1: [0]
                 // ```
                 println!("Doc {}: TermFreq {}: {:?}", doc_id, term_freq, positions);
+                doc_id = segment_postings.advance();
             }
         }
     }
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
         // Inverted index stands for the combination of
         // - the term dictionary
         // - the inverted lists associated to each terms and their positions
-        let inverted_index = segment_reader.inverted_index(title);
+        let inverted_index = segment_reader.inverted_index(title)?;
 
         // This segment posting object is like a cursor over the documents matching the term.
         // The `IndexRecordOption` arguments tells tantivy we will be interested in both term frequencies
@@ -115,13 +115,18 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
         // If you don't need all this information, you may get better performance by decompressing less
         // information.
         if let Some(mut block_segment_postings) =
-            inverted_index.read_block_postings(&term_the, IndexRecordOption::Basic)
+            inverted_index.read_block_postings(&term_the, IndexRecordOption::Basic)?
         {
-            while block_segment_postings.advance() {
+            loop {
+                let docs = block_segment_postings.docs();
+                if docs.is_empty() {
+                    break;
+                }
                 // Once again these docs MAY contains deleted documents as well.
                 let docs = block_segment_postings.docs();
                 // Prints `Docs [0, 2].`
                 println!("Docs {:?}", docs);
+                block_segment_postings.advance();
             }
         }
     }

examples/pre_tokenized_text.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // # Pre-tokenized text example
 //
-// This example shows how to use pre-tokenized text. Sometimes yout might
+// This example shows how to use pre-tokenized text. Sometimes you might
 // want to index and search through text which is already split into
 // tokens by some external tool.
 //
@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@
 // - import tokenized text straight from json,
 // - perform a search on documents with pre-tokenized text
 
-use tantivy::tokenizer::{PreTokenizedString, SimpleTokenizer, Token, Tokenizer};
-
 use tantivy::collector::{Count, TopDocs};
 use tantivy::query::TermQuery;
 use tantivy::schema::*;
+use tantivy::tokenizer::{PreTokenizedString, SimpleTokenizer, Token, Tokenizer};
 use tantivy::{doc, Index, ReloadPolicy};
 use tempfile::TempDir;
 
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
         }]
     }"#;
 
-    let short_man_doc = schema.parse_document(&short_man_json)?;
+    let short_man_doc = schema.parse_document(short_man_json)?;
 
     index_writer.add_document(short_man_doc);
 

examples/snippet.rs

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
     let schema = schema_builder.build();
 
     // # Indexing documents
-    let index = Index::create_in_dir(&index_path, schema.clone())?;
+    let index = Index::create_in_dir(&index_path, schema)?;
 
     let mut index_writer = index.writer(50_000_000)?;
 
@@ -69,12 +69,12 @@ fn highlight(snippet: Snippet) -> String {
     let mut result = String::new();
     let mut start_from = 0;
 
-    for (start, end) in snippet.highlighted().iter().map(|h| h.bounds()) {
-        result.push_str(&snippet.fragments()[start_from..start]);
+    for fragment_range in snippet.highlighted() {
+        result.push_str(&snippet.fragments()[start_from..fragment_range.start]);
         result.push_str(" --> ");
-        result.push_str(&snippet.fragments()[start..end]);
+        result.push_str(&snippet.fragments()[fragment_range.clone()]);
         result.push_str(" <-- ");
-        start_from = end;
+        start_from = fragment_range.end;
     }
 
     result.push_str(&snippet.fragments()[start_from..]);

examples/working_with_json.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-use tantivy;
 use tantivy::schema::*;
 
 // # Document from json
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
     }"#;
 
     // We can parse our document
-    let _mice_and_men_doc = schema.parse_document(&mice_and_men_doc_json)?;
+    let _mice_and_men_doc = schema.parse_document(mice_and_men_doc_json)?;
 
     // Multi-valued field are allowed, they are
     // expressed in JSON by an array.
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
        "title": ["Frankenstein", "The Modern Prometheus"],
        "year": 1818
     }"#;
-    let _frankenstein_doc = schema.parse_document(&frankenstein_json)?;
+    let _frankenstein_doc = schema.parse_document(frankenstein_json)?;
 
     // Note that the schema is saved in your index directory.
     //

fastfield_codecs/Cargo.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+[package]
+name = "fastfield_codecs"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["Pascal Seitz <pascal@quickwit.io>"]
+license = "MIT"
+edition = "2018"
+description = "Fast field codecs used by tantivy"
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]
+common = { version = "0.1", path = "../common/", package = "tantivy-common" }
+tantivy-bitpacker = { version="0.1.1", path = "../bitpacker/" }
+prettytable-rs = {version="0.8.0", optional= true}
+rand = {version="0.8.3", optional= true}
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+more-asserts = "0.2.1"
+rand = "0.8.3"
+
+[features]
+bin = ["prettytable-rs", "rand"]
+default = ["bin"]
+

fastfield_codecs/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+
+
+# Fast Field Codecs
+
+This crate contains various fast field codecs, used to compress/decompress fast field data in tantivy.
+
+## Contributing
+
+Contributing is pretty straightforward. Since the bitpacking is the simplest compressor, you can check it for reference.
+
+A codec needs to implement 2 traits:
+
+- A reader implementing `FastFieldCodecReader` to read the codec.
+- A serializer implementing `FastFieldCodecSerializer` for compression estimation and codec name + id.
+
+### Tests
+
+Once the traits are implemented test and benchmark integration is pretty easy (see `test_with_codec_data_sets` and `bench.rs`).
+
+Make sure to add the codec to the main.rs, which tests the compression ratio and estimation against different data sets. You can run it with:
+```
+cargo run --features bin
+```
+
+### TODO
+- Add real world data sets in comparison
+- Add codec to cover sparse data sets
+
+
+### Codec Comparison
+```
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+|                                  | Compression Ratio | Compression Estimation |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| Autoincrement                    |                   |                        |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| LinearInterpol                   | 0.000039572664    | 0.000004396963         |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| MultiLinearInterpol              | 0.1477348         | 0.17275847             |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| Bitpacked                        | 0.28126493        | 0.28125                |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| Monotonically increasing concave |                   |                        |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| LinearInterpol                   | 0.25003937        | 0.26562938             |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| MultiLinearInterpol              | 0.190665          | 0.1883836              |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| Bitpacked                        | 0.31251436        | 0.3125                 |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| Monotonically increasing convex  |                   |                        |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| LinearInterpol                   | 0.25003937        | 0.28125438             |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| MultiLinearInterpol              | 0.18676           | 0.2040086              |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| Bitpacked                        | 0.31251436        | 0.3125                 |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| Almost monotonically increasing  |                   |                        |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| LinearInterpol                   | 0.14066513        | 0.1562544              |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| MultiLinearInterpol              | 0.16335973        | 0.17275847             |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+| Bitpacked                        | 0.28126493        | 0.28125                |
++----------------------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
+
+```

fastfield_codecs/benches/bench.rs

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+#![feature(test)]
+
+extern crate test;
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use fastfield_codecs::{
+        bitpacked::{BitpackedFastFieldReader, BitpackedFastFieldSerializer},
+        linearinterpol::{LinearInterpolFastFieldReader, LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer},
+        multilinearinterpol::{
+            MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldReader, MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer,
+        },
+        *,
+    };
+
+    fn get_data() -> Vec<u64> {
+        let mut data: Vec<_> = (100..55000_u64)
+            .map(|num| num + rand::random::<u8>() as u64)
+            .collect();
+        data.push(99_000);
+        data.insert(1000, 2000);
+        data.insert(2000, 100);
+        data.insert(3000, 4100);
+        data.insert(4000, 100);
+        data.insert(5000, 800);
+        data
+    }
+
+    fn value_iter() -> impl Iterator<Item = u64> {
+        0..20_000
+    }
+    fn bench_get<S: FastFieldCodecSerializer, R: FastFieldCodecReader>(
+        b: &mut Bencher,
+        data: &[u64],
+    ) {
+        let mut bytes = vec![];
+        S::serialize(
+            &mut bytes,
+            &data,
+            stats_from_vec(data),
+            data.iter().cloned(),
+            data.iter().cloned(),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let reader = R::open_from_bytes(&bytes).unwrap();
+        b.iter(|| {
+            for pos in value_iter() {
+                reader.get_u64(pos as u64, &bytes);
+            }
+        });
+    }
+    fn bench_create<S: FastFieldCodecSerializer>(b: &mut Bencher, data: &[u64]) {
+        let mut bytes = vec![];
+        b.iter(|| {
+            S::serialize(
+                &mut bytes,
+                &data,
+                stats_from_vec(data),
+                data.iter().cloned(),
+                data.iter().cloned(),
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+        });
+    }
+
+    use test::Bencher;
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_fastfield_bitpack_create(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let data: Vec<_> = get_data();
+        bench_create::<BitpackedFastFieldSerializer>(b, &data);
+    }
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_fastfield_linearinterpol_create(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let data: Vec<_> = get_data();
+        bench_create::<LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer>(b, &data);
+    }
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_fastfield_multilinearinterpol_create(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let data: Vec<_> = get_data();
+        bench_create::<MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer>(b, &data);
+    }
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_fastfield_bitpack_get(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let data: Vec<_> = get_data();
+        bench_get::<BitpackedFastFieldSerializer, BitpackedFastFieldReader>(b, &data);
+    }
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_fastfield_linearinterpol_get(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let data: Vec<_> = get_data();
+        bench_get::<LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer, LinearInterpolFastFieldReader>(b, &data);
+    }
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_fastfield_multilinearinterpol_get(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        let data: Vec<_> = get_data();
+        bench_get::<MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer, MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldReader>(
+            b, &data,
+        );
+    }
+    pub fn stats_from_vec(data: &[u64]) -> FastFieldStats {
+        let min_value = data.iter().cloned().min().unwrap_or(0);
+        let max_value = data.iter().cloned().max().unwrap_or(0);
+        FastFieldStats {
+            min_value,
+            max_value,
+            num_vals: data.len() as u64,
+        }
+    }
+}

fastfield_codecs/src/bitpacked.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+use crate::FastFieldCodecReader;
+use crate::FastFieldCodecSerializer;
+use crate::FastFieldDataAccess;
+use crate::FastFieldStats;
+use common::BinarySerializable;
+use std::io::{self, Write};
+use tantivy_bitpacker::compute_num_bits;
+use tantivy_bitpacker::BitPacker;
+
+use tantivy_bitpacker::BitUnpacker;
+
+/// Depending on the field type, a different
+/// fast field is required.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct BitpackedFastFieldReader {
+    bit_unpacker: BitUnpacker,
+    pub min_value_u64: u64,
+    pub max_value_u64: u64,
+}
+
+impl<'data> FastFieldCodecReader for BitpackedFastFieldReader {
+    /// Opens a fast field given a file.
+    fn open_from_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> io::Result<Self> {
+        let (_data, mut footer) = bytes.split_at(bytes.len() - 16);
+        let min_value = u64::deserialize(&mut footer)?;
+        let amplitude = u64::deserialize(&mut footer)?;
+        let max_value = min_value + amplitude;
+        let num_bits = compute_num_bits(amplitude);
+        let bit_unpacker = BitUnpacker::new(num_bits);
+        Ok(BitpackedFastFieldReader {
+            min_value_u64: min_value,
+            max_value_u64: max_value,
+            bit_unpacker,
+        })
+    }
+    #[inline]
+    fn get_u64(&self, doc: u64, data: &[u8]) -> u64 {
+        self.min_value_u64 + self.bit_unpacker.get(doc, data)
+    }
+    #[inline]
+    fn min_value(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.min_value_u64
+    }
+    #[inline]
+    fn max_value(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.max_value_u64
+    }
+}
+pub struct BitpackedFastFieldSerializerLegacy<'a, W: 'a + Write> {
+    bit_packer: BitPacker,
+    write: &'a mut W,
+    min_value: u64,
+    amplitude: u64,
+    num_bits: u8,
+}
+
+impl<'a, W: Write> BitpackedFastFieldSerializerLegacy<'a, W> {
+    /// Creates a new fast field serializer.
+    ///
+    /// The serializer in fact encode the values by bitpacking
+    /// `(val - min_value)`.
+    ///
+    /// It requires a `min_value` and a `max_value` to compute
+    /// compute the minimum number of bits required to encode
+    /// values.
+    pub fn open(
+        write: &'a mut W,
+        min_value: u64,
+        max_value: u64,
+    ) -> io::Result<BitpackedFastFieldSerializerLegacy<'a, W>> {
+        assert!(min_value <= max_value);
+        let amplitude = max_value - min_value;
+        let num_bits = compute_num_bits(amplitude);
+        let bit_packer = BitPacker::new();
+        Ok(BitpackedFastFieldSerializerLegacy {
+            bit_packer,
+            write,
+            min_value,
+            amplitude,
+            num_bits,
+        })
+    }
+    /// Pushes a new value to the currently open u64 fast field.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn add_val(&mut self, val: u64) -> io::Result<()> {
+        let val_to_write: u64 = val - self.min_value;
+        self.bit_packer
+            .write(val_to_write, self.num_bits, &mut self.write)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+    pub fn close_field(mut self) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.bit_packer.close(&mut self.write)?;
+        self.min_value.serialize(&mut self.write)?;
+        self.amplitude.serialize(&mut self.write)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct BitpackedFastFieldSerializer {}
+
+impl FastFieldCodecSerializer for BitpackedFastFieldSerializer {
+    const NAME: &'static str = "Bitpacked";
+    const ID: u8 = 1;
+    /// Serializes data with the BitpackedFastFieldSerializer.
+    ///
+    /// The serializer in fact encode the values by bitpacking
+    /// `(val - min_value)`.
+    ///
+    /// It requires a `min_value` and a `max_value` to compute
+    /// compute the minimum number of bits required to encode
+    /// values.
+    fn serialize(
+        write: &mut impl Write,
+        _fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess,
+        stats: FastFieldStats,
+        data_iter: impl Iterator<Item = u64>,
+        _data_iter1: impl Iterator<Item = u64>,
+    ) -> io::Result<()> {
+        let mut serializer =
+            BitpackedFastFieldSerializerLegacy::open(write, stats.min_value, stats.max_value)?;
+
+        for val in data_iter {
+            serializer.add_val(val)?;
+        }
+        serializer.close_field()?;
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+    fn is_applicable(
+        _fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess,
+        _stats: FastFieldStats,
+    ) -> bool {
+        true
+    }
+    fn estimate(_fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess, stats: FastFieldStats) -> f32 {
+        let amplitude = stats.max_value - stats.min_value;
+        let num_bits = compute_num_bits(amplitude);
+        let num_bits_uncompressed = 64;
+        num_bits as f32 / num_bits_uncompressed as f32
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::tests::get_codec_test_data_sets;
+
+    fn create_and_validate(data: &[u64], name: &str) {
+        crate::tests::create_and_validate::<BitpackedFastFieldSerializer, BitpackedFastFieldReader>(
+            data, name,
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_with_codec_data_sets() {
+        let data_sets = get_codec_test_data_sets();
+        for (mut data, name) in data_sets {
+            create_and_validate(&data, name);
+            data.reverse();
+            create_and_validate(&data, name);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn bitpacked_fast_field_rand() {
+        for _ in 0..500 {
+            let mut data = (0..1 + rand::random::<u8>() as usize)
+                .map(|_| rand::random::<i64>() as u64 / 2)
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+            create_and_validate(&data, "rand");
+
+            data.reverse();
+            create_and_validate(&data, "rand");
+        }
+    }
+}

fastfield_codecs/src/lib.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+#[cfg(test)]
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate more_asserts;
+
+use std::io;
+use std::io::Write;
+
+pub mod bitpacked;
+pub mod linearinterpol;
+pub mod multilinearinterpol;
+
+pub trait FastFieldCodecReader: Sized {
+    /// reads the metadata and returns the CodecReader
+    fn open_from_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<Self>;
+
+    fn get_u64(&self, doc: u64, data: &[u8]) -> u64;
+
+    fn min_value(&self) -> u64;
+    fn max_value(&self) -> u64;
+}
+
+/// The FastFieldSerializerEstimate trait is required on all variants
+/// of fast field compressions, to decide which one to choose.
+pub trait FastFieldCodecSerializer {
+    /// A codex needs to provide a unique name and id, which is
+    /// used for debugging and de/serialization.
+    const NAME: &'static str;
+    const ID: u8;
+
+    /// Check if the Codec is able to compress the data
+    fn is_applicable(fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess, stats: FastFieldStats) -> bool;
+
+    /// Returns an estimate of the compression ratio.
+    /// The baseline is uncompressed 64bit data.
+    ///
+    /// It could make sense to also return a value representing
+    /// computational complexity.
+    fn estimate(fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess, stats: FastFieldStats) -> f32;
+
+    /// Serializes the data using the serializer into write.
+    /// There are multiple iterators, in case the codec needs to read the data multiple times.
+    /// The iterators should be preferred over using fastfield_accessor for performance reasons.
+    fn serialize(
+        write: &mut impl Write,
+        fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess,
+        stats: FastFieldStats,
+        data_iter: impl Iterator<Item = u64>,
+        data_iter1: impl Iterator<Item = u64>,
+    ) -> io::Result<()>;
+}
+
+/// FastFieldDataAccess is the trait to access fast field data during serialization and estimation.
+pub trait FastFieldDataAccess {
+    /// Return the value associated to the given position.
+    ///
+    /// Whenever possible use the Iterator passed to the fastfield creation instead, for performance reasons.
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// May panic if `position` is greater than the index.
+    fn get_val(&self, position: u64) -> u64;
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct FastFieldStats {
+    pub min_value: u64,
+    pub max_value: u64,
+    pub num_vals: u64,
+}
+
+impl<'a> FastFieldDataAccess for &'a [u64] {
+    fn get_val(&self, position: u64) -> u64 {
+        self[position as usize]
+    }
+}
+
+impl FastFieldDataAccess for Vec<u64> {
+    fn get_val(&self, position: u64) -> u64 {
+        self[position as usize]
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use crate::{
+        bitpacked::{BitpackedFastFieldReader, BitpackedFastFieldSerializer},
+        linearinterpol::{LinearInterpolFastFieldReader, LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer},
+        multilinearinterpol::{
+            MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldReader, MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer,
+        },
+    };
+
+    pub fn create_and_validate<S: FastFieldCodecSerializer, R: FastFieldCodecReader>(
+        data: &[u64],
+        name: &str,
+    ) -> (f32, f32) {
+        if !S::is_applicable(&data, crate::tests::stats_from_vec(data)) {
+            return (f32::MAX, 0.0);
+        }
+        let estimation = S::estimate(&data, crate::tests::stats_from_vec(data));
+        let mut out = vec![];
+        S::serialize(
+            &mut out,
+            &data,
+            crate::tests::stats_from_vec(data),
+            data.iter().cloned(),
+            data.iter().cloned(),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        let reader = R::open_from_bytes(&out).unwrap();
+        for (doc, orig_val) in data.iter().enumerate() {
+            let val = reader.get_u64(doc as u64, &out);
+            if val != *orig_val {
+                panic!(
+                    "val {:?} does not match orig_val {:?}, in data set {}, data {:?}",
+                    val, orig_val, name, data
+                );
+            }
+        }
+        let actual_compression = out.len() as f32 / (data.len() as f32 * 8.0);
+        (estimation, actual_compression)
+    }
+    pub fn get_codec_test_data_sets() -> Vec<(Vec<u64>, &'static str)> {
+        let mut data_and_names = vec![];
+
+        let data = (10..=20_u64).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        data_and_names.push((data, "simple monotonically increasing"));
+
+        data_and_names.push((
+            vec![5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 99, 100],
+            "offset in linear interpol",
+        ));
+        data_and_names.push((vec![5, 50, 3, 13, 1, 1000, 35], "rand small"));
+        data_and_names.push((vec![10], "single value"));
+
+        data_and_names
+    }
+
+    fn test_codec<S: FastFieldCodecSerializer, R: FastFieldCodecReader>() {
+        let codec_name = S::NAME;
+        for (data, data_set_name) in get_codec_test_data_sets() {
+            let (estimate, actual) =
+                crate::tests::create_and_validate::<S, R>(&data, data_set_name);
+            let result = if estimate == f32::MAX {
+                "Disabled".to_string()
+            } else {
+                format!("Estimate {:?} Actual {:?} ", estimate, actual)
+            };
+            println!(
+                "Codec {}, DataSet {}, {}",
+                codec_name, data_set_name, result
+            );
+        }
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_codec_bitpacking() {
+        test_codec::<BitpackedFastFieldSerializer, BitpackedFastFieldReader>();
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_codec_interpolation() {
+        test_codec::<LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer, LinearInterpolFastFieldReader>();
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_codec_multi_interpolation() {
+        test_codec::<MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer, MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldReader>();
+    }
+
+    use super::*;
+    pub fn stats_from_vec(data: &[u64]) -> FastFieldStats {
+        let min_value = data.iter().cloned().min().unwrap_or(0);
+        let max_value = data.iter().cloned().max().unwrap_or(0);
+        FastFieldStats {
+            min_value,
+            max_value,
+            num_vals: data.len() as u64,
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn estimation_good_interpolation_case() {
+        let data = (10..=20000_u64).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+        let linear_interpol_estimation =
+            LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer::estimate(&data, stats_from_vec(&data));
+        assert_le!(linear_interpol_estimation, 0.01);
+
+        let multi_linear_interpol_estimation =
+            MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer::estimate(&data, stats_from_vec(&data));
+        assert_le!(multi_linear_interpol_estimation, 0.2);
+        assert_le!(linear_interpol_estimation, multi_linear_interpol_estimation);
+
+        let bitpacked_estimation =
+            BitpackedFastFieldSerializer::estimate(&data, stats_from_vec(&data));
+        assert_le!(linear_interpol_estimation, bitpacked_estimation);
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn estimation_test_bad_interpolation_case() {
+        let data = vec![200, 10, 10, 10, 10, 1000, 20];
+
+        let linear_interpol_estimation =
+            LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer::estimate(&data, stats_from_vec(&data));
+        assert_le!(linear_interpol_estimation, 0.32);
+
+        let bitpacked_estimation =
+            BitpackedFastFieldSerializer::estimate(&data, stats_from_vec(&data));
+        assert_le!(bitpacked_estimation, linear_interpol_estimation);
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn estimation_test_bad_interpolation_case_monotonically_increasing() {
+        let mut data = (200..=20000_u64).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        data.push(1_000_000);
+
+        // in this case the linear interpolation can't in fact not be worse than bitpacking,
+        // but the estimator adds some threshold, which leads to estimated worse behavior
+        let linear_interpol_estimation =
+            LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer::estimate(&data, stats_from_vec(&data));
+        assert_le!(linear_interpol_estimation, 0.35);
+
+        let bitpacked_estimation =
+            BitpackedFastFieldSerializer::estimate(&data, stats_from_vec(&data));
+        assert_le!(bitpacked_estimation, 0.32);
+        assert_le!(bitpacked_estimation, linear_interpol_estimation);
+    }
+}

fastfield_codecs/src/linearinterpol.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,305 @@
+use crate::FastFieldCodecReader;
+use crate::FastFieldCodecSerializer;
+use crate::FastFieldDataAccess;
+use crate::FastFieldStats;
+use std::io::{self, Read, Write};
+use std::ops::Sub;
+use tantivy_bitpacker::compute_num_bits;
+use tantivy_bitpacker::BitPacker;
+
+use common::BinarySerializable;
+use common::FixedSize;
+use tantivy_bitpacker::BitUnpacker;
+
+/// Depending on the field type, a different
+/// fast field is required.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct LinearInterpolFastFieldReader {
+    bit_unpacker: BitUnpacker,
+    pub footer: LinearInterpolFooter,
+    pub slope: f32,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct LinearInterpolFooter {
+    pub relative_max_value: u64,
+    pub offset: u64,
+    pub first_val: u64,
+    pub last_val: u64,
+    pub num_vals: u64,
+    pub min_value: u64,
+    pub max_value: u64,
+}
+
+impl BinarySerializable for LinearInterpolFooter {
+    fn serialize<W: Write>(&self, write: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.relative_max_value.serialize(write)?;
+        self.offset.serialize(write)?;
+        self.first_val.serialize(write)?;
+        self.last_val.serialize(write)?;
+        self.num_vals.serialize(write)?;
+        self.min_value.serialize(write)?;
+        self.max_value.serialize(write)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn deserialize<R: Read>(reader: &mut R) -> io::Result<LinearInterpolFooter> {
+        Ok(LinearInterpolFooter {
+            relative_max_value: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+            offset: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+            first_val: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+            last_val: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+            num_vals: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+            min_value: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+            max_value: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl FixedSize for LinearInterpolFooter {
+    const SIZE_IN_BYTES: usize = 56;
+}
+
+impl FastFieldCodecReader for LinearInterpolFastFieldReader {
+    /// Opens a fast field given a file.
+    fn open_from_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> io::Result<Self> {
+        let (_data, mut footer) = bytes.split_at(bytes.len() - LinearInterpolFooter::SIZE_IN_BYTES);
+        let footer = LinearInterpolFooter::deserialize(&mut footer)?;
+        let slope = get_slope(footer.first_val, footer.last_val, footer.num_vals);
+
+        let num_bits = compute_num_bits(footer.relative_max_value);
+        let bit_unpacker = BitUnpacker::new(num_bits);
+        Ok(LinearInterpolFastFieldReader {
+            bit_unpacker,
+            footer,
+            slope,
+        })
+    }
+    #[inline]
+    fn get_u64(&self, doc: u64, data: &[u8]) -> u64 {
+        let calculated_value = get_calculated_value(self.footer.first_val, doc, self.slope);
+        (calculated_value + self.bit_unpacker.get(doc, data)) - self.footer.offset
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    fn min_value(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.footer.min_value
+    }
+    #[inline]
+    fn max_value(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.footer.max_value
+    }
+}
+
+/// Fastfield serializer, which tries to guess values by linear interpolation
+/// and stores the difference bitpacked.
+pub struct LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer {}
+
+#[inline]
+fn get_slope(first_val: u64, last_val: u64, num_vals: u64) -> f32 {
+    if num_vals <= 1 {
+        return 0.0;
+    }
+    //  We calculate the slope with f64 high precision and use the result in lower precision f32
+    //  This is done in order to handle estimations for very large values like i64::MAX
+    ((last_val as f64 - first_val as f64) / (num_vals as u64 - 1) as f64) as f32
+}
+
+#[inline]
+fn get_calculated_value(first_val: u64, pos: u64, slope: f32) -> u64 {
+    first_val + (pos as f32 * slope) as u64
+}
+
+impl FastFieldCodecSerializer for LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer {
+    const NAME: &'static str = "LinearInterpol";
+    const ID: u8 = 2;
+    /// Creates a new fast field serializer.
+    fn serialize(
+        write: &mut impl Write,
+        fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess,
+        stats: FastFieldStats,
+        data_iter: impl Iterator<Item = u64>,
+        data_iter1: impl Iterator<Item = u64>,
+    ) -> io::Result<()> {
+        assert!(stats.min_value <= stats.max_value);
+
+        let first_val = fastfield_accessor.get_val(0);
+        let last_val = fastfield_accessor.get_val(stats.num_vals as u64 - 1);
+        let slope = get_slope(first_val, last_val, stats.num_vals);
+        // calculate offset to ensure all values are positive
+        let mut offset = 0;
+        let mut rel_positive_max = 0;
+        for (pos, actual_value) in data_iter1.enumerate() {
+            let calculated_value = get_calculated_value(first_val, pos as u64, slope);
+            if calculated_value > actual_value {
+                // negative value we need to apply an offset
+                // we ignore negative values in the max value calculation, because negative values
+                // will be offset to 0
+                offset = offset.max(calculated_value - actual_value);
+            } else {
+                //positive value no offset reuqired
+                rel_positive_max = rel_positive_max.max(actual_value - calculated_value);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // rel_positive_max will be adjusted by offset
+        let relative_max_value = rel_positive_max + offset;
+
+        let num_bits = compute_num_bits(relative_max_value);
+        let mut bit_packer = BitPacker::new();
+        for (pos, val) in data_iter.enumerate() {
+            let calculated_value = get_calculated_value(first_val, pos as u64, slope);
+            let diff = (val + offset) - calculated_value;
+            bit_packer.write(diff, num_bits, write)?;
+        }
+        bit_packer.close(write)?;
+
+        let footer = LinearInterpolFooter {
+            relative_max_value,
+            offset,
+            first_val,
+            last_val,
+            num_vals: stats.num_vals,
+            min_value: stats.min_value,
+            max_value: stats.max_value,
+        };
+        footer.serialize(write)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+    fn is_applicable(
+        _fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess,
+        stats: FastFieldStats,
+    ) -> bool {
+        if stats.num_vals < 3 {
+            return false; //disable compressor for this case
+        }
+        // On serialisation the offset is added to the actual value.
+        // We need to make sure this won't run into overflow calculation issues.
+        // For this we take the maximum theroretical offset and add this to the max value.
+        // If this doesn't overflow the algortihm should be fine
+        let theorethical_maximum_offset = stats.max_value - stats.min_value;
+        if stats
+            .max_value
+            .checked_add(theorethical_maximum_offset)
+            .is_none()
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+        true
+    }
+    /// estimation for linear interpolation is hard because, you don't know
+    /// where the local maxima for the deviation of the calculated value are and
+    /// the offset to shift all values to >=0 is also unknown.
+    fn estimate(fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess, stats: FastFieldStats) -> f32 {
+        let first_val = fastfield_accessor.get_val(0);
+        let last_val = fastfield_accessor.get_val(stats.num_vals as u64 - 1);
+        let slope = get_slope(first_val, last_val, stats.num_vals);
+
+        // let's sample at 0%, 5%, 10% .. 95%, 100%
+        let num_vals = stats.num_vals as f32 / 100.0;
+        let sample_positions = (0..20)
+            .map(|pos| (num_vals * pos as f32 * 5.0) as usize)
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+        let max_distance = sample_positions
+            .iter()
+            .map(|pos| {
+                let calculated_value = get_calculated_value(first_val, *pos as u64, slope);
+                let actual_value = fastfield_accessor.get_val(*pos as u64);
+                distance(calculated_value, actual_value)
+            })
+            .max()
+            .unwrap_or(0);
+
+        // the theory would be that we don't have the actual max_distance, but we are close within 50%
+        // threshold.
+        // It is multiplied by 2 because in a log case scenario the line would be as much above as
+        // below. So the offset would = max_distance
+        //
+        let relative_max_value = (max_distance as f32 * 1.5) * 2.0;
+
+        let num_bits = compute_num_bits(relative_max_value as u64) as u64 * stats.num_vals as u64
+            + LinearInterpolFooter::SIZE_IN_BYTES as u64;
+        let num_bits_uncompressed = 64 * stats.num_vals;
+        num_bits as f32 / num_bits_uncompressed as f32
+    }
+}
+
+#[inline]
+fn distance<T: Sub<Output = T> + Ord>(x: T, y: T) -> T {
+    if x < y {
+        y - x
+    } else {
+        x - y
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::tests::get_codec_test_data_sets;
+
+    fn create_and_validate(data: &[u64], name: &str) -> (f32, f32) {
+        crate::tests::create_and_validate::<
+            LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer,
+            LinearInterpolFastFieldReader,
+        >(data, name)
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_compression() {
+        let data = (10..=6_000_u64).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        let (estimate, actual_compression) =
+            create_and_validate(&data, "simple monotonically large");
+
+        assert!(actual_compression < 0.01);
+        assert!(estimate < 0.01);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_with_codec_data_sets() {
+        let data_sets = get_codec_test_data_sets();
+        for (mut data, name) in data_sets {
+            create_and_validate(&data, name);
+            data.reverse();
+            create_and_validate(&data, name);
+        }
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn linear_interpol_fast_field_test_large_amplitude() {
+        let data = vec![
+            i64::MAX as u64 / 2,
+            i64::MAX as u64 / 3,
+            i64::MAX as u64 / 2,
+        ];
+
+        create_and_validate(&data, "large amplitude");
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn linear_interpol_fast_concave_data() {
+        let data = vec![0, 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 20, 50];
+        create_and_validate(&data, "concave data");
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn linear_interpol_fast_convex_data() {
+        let data = vec![0, 40, 60, 70, 75, 77];
+        create_and_validate(&data, "convex data");
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn linear_interpol_fast_field_test_simple() {
+        let data = (10..=20_u64).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+        create_and_validate(&data, "simple monotonically");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn linear_interpol_fast_field_rand() {
+        for _ in 0..5000 {
+            let mut data = (0..50).map(|_| rand::random::<u64>()).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+            create_and_validate(&data, "random");
+
+            data.reverse();
+            create_and_validate(&data, "random");
+        }
+    }
+}

fastfield_codecs/src/main.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate prettytable;
+use fastfield_codecs::{
+    linearinterpol::LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer,
+    multilinearinterpol::MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer, FastFieldCodecSerializer,
+    FastFieldStats,
+};
+use prettytable::{Cell, Row, Table};
+
+fn main() {
+    let mut table = Table::new();
+
+    // Add a row per time
+    table.add_row(row!["", "Compression Ratio", "Compression Estimation"]);
+
+    for (data, data_set_name) in get_codec_test_data_sets() {
+        let mut results = vec![];
+        let res = serialize_with_codec::<LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer>(&data);
+        results.push(res);
+        let res = serialize_with_codec::<MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer>(&data);
+        results.push(res);
+        let res = serialize_with_codec::<fastfield_codecs::bitpacked::BitpackedFastFieldSerializer>(
+            &data,
+        );
+        results.push(res);
+
+        //let best_estimation_codec = results
+        //.iter()
+        //.min_by(|res1, res2| res1.partial_cmp(&res2).unwrap())
+        //.unwrap();
+        let best_compression_ratio_codec = results
+            .iter()
+            .min_by(|res1, res2| res1.partial_cmp(res2).unwrap())
+            .cloned()
+            .unwrap();
+
+        table.add_row(Row::new(vec![Cell::new(data_set_name).style_spec("Bbb")]));
+        for (is_applicable, est, comp, name) in results {
+            let (est_cell, ratio_cell) = if !is_applicable {
+                ("Codec Disabled".to_string(), "".to_string())
+            } else {
+                (est.to_string(), comp.to_string())
+            };
+            #[allow(clippy::all)]
+            let style = if comp == best_compression_ratio_codec.1 {
+                "Fb"
+            } else {
+                ""
+            };
+
+            table.add_row(Row::new(vec![
+                Cell::new(&name.to_string()).style_spec("bFg"),
+                Cell::new(&ratio_cell).style_spec(style),
+                Cell::new(&est_cell).style_spec(""),
+            ]));
+        }
+    }
+
+    table.printstd();
+}
+
+pub fn get_codec_test_data_sets() -> Vec<(Vec<u64>, &'static str)> {
+    let mut data_and_names = vec![];
+
+    let data = (1000..=200_000_u64).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    data_and_names.push((data, "Autoincrement"));
+
+    let mut current_cumulative = 0;
+    let data = (1..=200_000_u64)
+        .map(|num| {
+            let num = (num as f32 + num as f32).log10() as u64;
+            current_cumulative += num;
+            current_cumulative
+        })
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    //let data = (1..=200000_u64).map(|num| num + num).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    data_and_names.push((data, "Monotonically increasing concave"));
+
+    let mut current_cumulative = 0;
+    let data = (1..=200_000_u64)
+        .map(|num| {
+            let num = (200_000.0 - num as f32).log10() as u64;
+            current_cumulative += num;
+            current_cumulative
+        })
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    data_and_names.push((data, "Monotonically increasing convex"));
+
+    let data = (1000..=200_000_u64)
+        .map(|num| num + rand::random::<u8>() as u64)
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    data_and_names.push((data, "Almost monotonically increasing"));
+
+    data_and_names
+}
+
+pub fn serialize_with_codec<S: FastFieldCodecSerializer>(
+    data: &[u64],
+) -> (bool, f32, f32, &'static str) {
+    let is_applicable = S::is_applicable(&data, stats_from_vec(data));
+    if !is_applicable {
+        return (false, 0.0, 0.0, S::NAME);
+    }
+    let estimation = S::estimate(&data, stats_from_vec(data));
+    let mut out = vec![];
+    S::serialize(
+        &mut out,
+        &data,
+        stats_from_vec(data),
+        data.iter().cloned(),
+        data.iter().cloned(),
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+
+    let actual_compression = out.len() as f32 / (data.len() * 8) as f32;
+    (true, estimation, actual_compression, S::NAME)
+}
+
+pub fn stats_from_vec(data: &[u64]) -> FastFieldStats {
+    let min_value = data.iter().cloned().min().unwrap_or(0);
+    let max_value = data.iter().cloned().max().unwrap_or(0);
+    FastFieldStats {
+        min_value,
+        max_value,
+        num_vals: data.len() as u64,
+    }
+}

fastfield_codecs/src/multilinearinterpol.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,438 @@
+/*!
+
+MultiLinearInterpol compressor uses linear interpolation to guess a values and stores the offset, but in blocks of 512.
+
+With a CHUNK_SIZE of 512 and 29 byte metadata per block, we get a overhead for metadata of 232 / 512 = 0,45 bits per element.
+The additional space required per element in a block is the the maximum deviation of the linear interpolation estimation function.
+
+E.g. if the maximum deviation of an element is 12, all elements cost 4bits.
+
+Size per block:
+Num Elements * Maximum Deviation from Interpolation + 29 Byte Metadata
+
+*/
+
+use crate::FastFieldCodecReader;
+use crate::FastFieldCodecSerializer;
+use crate::FastFieldDataAccess;
+use crate::FastFieldStats;
+use common::CountingWriter;
+use std::io::{self, Read, Write};
+use std::ops::Sub;
+use tantivy_bitpacker::compute_num_bits;
+use tantivy_bitpacker::BitPacker;
+
+use common::BinarySerializable;
+use common::DeserializeFrom;
+use tantivy_bitpacker::BitUnpacker;
+
+const CHUNK_SIZE: u64 = 512;
+
+/// Depending on the field type, a different
+/// fast field is required.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldReader {
+    pub footer: MultiLinearInterpolFooter,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default)]
+struct Function {
+    // The offset in the data is required, because we have diffrent bit_widths per block
+    data_start_offset: u64,
+    // start_pos in the block will be CHUNK_SIZE * BLOCK_NUM
+    start_pos: u64,
+    // only used during serialization, 0 after deserialization
+    end_pos: u64,
+    // only used during serialization, 0 after deserialization
+    value_start_pos: u64,
+    // only used during serialization, 0 after deserialization
+    value_end_pos: u64,
+    slope: f32,
+    // The offset so that all values are positive when writing them
+    positive_val_offset: u64,
+    num_bits: u8,
+    bit_unpacker: BitUnpacker,
+}
+
+impl Function {
+    fn calc_slope(&mut self) {
+        let num_vals = self.end_pos - self.start_pos;
+        self.slope = get_slope(self.value_start_pos, self.value_end_pos, num_vals);
+    }
+    // split the interpolation into two function, change self and return the second split
+    fn split(&mut self, split_pos: u64, split_pos_value: u64) -> Function {
+        let mut new_function = Function {
+            start_pos: split_pos,
+            end_pos: self.end_pos,
+            value_start_pos: split_pos_value,
+            value_end_pos: self.value_end_pos,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        new_function.calc_slope();
+        self.end_pos = split_pos;
+        self.value_end_pos = split_pos_value;
+        self.calc_slope();
+        new_function
+    }
+}
+
+impl BinarySerializable for Function {
+    fn serialize<W: Write>(&self, write: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
+        self.data_start_offset.serialize(write)?;
+        self.value_start_pos.serialize(write)?;
+        self.positive_val_offset.serialize(write)?;
+        self.slope.serialize(write)?;
+        self.num_bits.serialize(write)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn deserialize<R: Read>(reader: &mut R) -> io::Result<Function> {
+        let data_start_offset = u64::deserialize(reader)?;
+        let value_start_pos = u64::deserialize(reader)?;
+        let offset = u64::deserialize(reader)?;
+        let slope = f32::deserialize(reader)?;
+        let num_bits = u8::deserialize(reader)?;
+        let interpolation = Function {
+            data_start_offset,
+            value_start_pos,
+            positive_val_offset: offset,
+            num_bits,
+            bit_unpacker: BitUnpacker::new(num_bits),
+            slope,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        Ok(interpolation)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct MultiLinearInterpolFooter {
+    pub num_vals: u64,
+    pub min_value: u64,
+    pub max_value: u64,
+    interpolations: Vec<Function>,
+}
+
+impl BinarySerializable for MultiLinearInterpolFooter {
+    fn serialize<W: Write>(&self, write: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
+        let mut out = vec![];
+        self.num_vals.serialize(&mut out)?;
+        self.min_value.serialize(&mut out)?;
+        self.max_value.serialize(&mut out)?;
+        self.interpolations.serialize(&mut out)?;
+        write.write_all(&out)?;
+        (out.len() as u32).serialize(write)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn deserialize<R: Read>(reader: &mut R) -> io::Result<MultiLinearInterpolFooter> {
+        let mut footer = MultiLinearInterpolFooter {
+            num_vals: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+            min_value: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+            max_value: u64::deserialize(reader)?,
+            interpolations: Vec::<Function>::deserialize(reader)?,
+        };
+        for (num, interpol) in footer.interpolations.iter_mut().enumerate() {
+            interpol.start_pos = CHUNK_SIZE * num as u64;
+        }
+        Ok(footer)
+    }
+}
+
+#[inline]
+fn get_interpolation_position(doc: u64) -> usize {
+    let index = doc / CHUNK_SIZE;
+    index as usize
+}
+
+#[inline]
+fn get_interpolation_function(doc: u64, interpolations: &[Function]) -> &Function {
+    &interpolations[get_interpolation_position(doc)]
+}
+
+impl FastFieldCodecReader for MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldReader {
+    /// Opens a fast field given a file.
+    fn open_from_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> io::Result<Self> {
+        let footer_len: u32 = (&bytes[bytes.len() - 4..]).deserialize()?;
+
+        let (_data, mut footer) = bytes.split_at(bytes.len() - (4 + footer_len) as usize);
+        let footer = MultiLinearInterpolFooter::deserialize(&mut footer)?;
+
+        Ok(MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldReader { footer })
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    fn get_u64(&self, doc: u64, data: &[u8]) -> u64 {
+        let interpolation = get_interpolation_function(doc, &self.footer.interpolations);
+        let doc = doc - interpolation.start_pos;
+        let calculated_value =
+            get_calculated_value(interpolation.value_start_pos, doc, interpolation.slope);
+        let diff = interpolation
+            .bit_unpacker
+            .get(doc, &data[interpolation.data_start_offset as usize..]);
+        (calculated_value + diff) - interpolation.positive_val_offset
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    fn min_value(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.footer.min_value
+    }
+    #[inline]
+    fn max_value(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.footer.max_value
+    }
+}
+
+#[inline]
+fn get_slope(first_val: u64, last_val: u64, num_vals: u64) -> f32 {
+    ((last_val as f64 - first_val as f64) / (num_vals as u64 - 1) as f64) as f32
+}
+
+#[inline]
+fn get_calculated_value(first_val: u64, pos: u64, slope: f32) -> u64 {
+    (first_val as i64 + (pos as f32 * slope) as i64) as u64
+}
+
+/// Same as LinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer, but working on chunks of CHUNK_SIZE elements.
+pub struct MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer {}
+
+impl FastFieldCodecSerializer for MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer {
+    const NAME: &'static str = "MultiLinearInterpol";
+    const ID: u8 = 3;
+    /// Creates a new fast field serializer.
+    fn serialize(
+        write: &mut impl Write,
+        fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess,
+        stats: FastFieldStats,
+        data_iter: impl Iterator<Item = u64>,
+        _data_iter1: impl Iterator<Item = u64>,
+    ) -> io::Result<()> {
+        assert!(stats.min_value <= stats.max_value);
+
+        let first_val = fastfield_accessor.get_val(0);
+        let last_val = fastfield_accessor.get_val(stats.num_vals as u64 - 1);
+
+        let mut first_function = Function {
+            end_pos: stats.num_vals,
+            value_start_pos: first_val,
+            value_end_pos: last_val,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        first_function.calc_slope();
+        let mut interpolations = vec![first_function];
+
+        // Since we potentially apply multiple passes over the data, the data is cached.
+        // Multiple iteration can be expensive (merge with index sorting can add lot of overhead per
+        // iteration)
+        let data = data_iter.collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+        //// let's split this into chunks of CHUNK_SIZE
+        for data_pos in (0..data.len() as u64).step_by(CHUNK_SIZE as usize).skip(1) {
+            let new_fun = {
+                let current_interpolation = interpolations.last_mut().unwrap();
+                current_interpolation.split(data_pos, data[data_pos as usize])
+            };
+            interpolations.push(new_fun);
+        }
+        // calculate offset and max (-> numbits) for each function
+        for interpolation in &mut interpolations {
+            let mut offset = 0;
+            let mut rel_positive_max = 0;
+            for (pos, actual_value) in data
+                [interpolation.start_pos as usize..interpolation.end_pos as usize]
+                .iter()
+                .cloned()
+                .enumerate()
+            {
+                let calculated_value = get_calculated_value(
+                    interpolation.value_start_pos,
+                    pos as u64,
+                    interpolation.slope,
+                );
+                if calculated_value > actual_value {
+                    // negative value we need to apply an offset
+                    // we ignore negative values in the max value calculation, because negative values
+                    // will be offset to 0
+                    offset = offset.max(calculated_value - actual_value);
+                } else {
+                    //positive value no offset reuqired
+                    rel_positive_max = rel_positive_max.max(actual_value - calculated_value);
+                }
+            }
+
+            interpolation.positive_val_offset = offset;
+            interpolation.num_bits = compute_num_bits(rel_positive_max + offset);
+        }
+        let mut bit_packer = BitPacker::new();
+
+        let write = &mut CountingWriter::wrap(write);
+        for interpolation in &mut interpolations {
+            interpolation.data_start_offset = write.written_bytes();
+            let num_bits = interpolation.num_bits;
+            for (pos, actual_value) in data
+                [interpolation.start_pos as usize..interpolation.end_pos as usize]
+                .iter()
+                .cloned()
+                .enumerate()
+            {
+                let calculated_value = get_calculated_value(
+                    interpolation.value_start_pos,
+                    pos as u64,
+                    interpolation.slope,
+                );
+                let diff = (actual_value + interpolation.positive_val_offset) - calculated_value;
+                bit_packer.write(diff, num_bits, write)?;
+            }
+            bit_packer.flush(write)?;
+        }
+        bit_packer.close(write)?;
+
+        let footer = MultiLinearInterpolFooter {
+            num_vals: stats.num_vals,
+            min_value: stats.min_value,
+            max_value: stats.max_value,
+            interpolations,
+        };
+        footer.serialize(write)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn is_applicable(
+        _fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess,
+        stats: FastFieldStats,
+    ) -> bool {
+        if stats.num_vals < 5_000 {
+            return false;
+        }
+        // On serialization the offset is added to the actual value.
+        // We need to make sure this won't run into overflow calculation issues.
+        // For this we take the maximum theroretical offset and add this to the max value.
+        // If this doesn't overflow the algortihm should be fine
+        let theorethical_maximum_offset = stats.max_value - stats.min_value;
+        if stats
+            .max_value
+            .checked_add(theorethical_maximum_offset)
+            .is_none()
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+        true
+    }
+    /// estimation for linear interpolation is hard because, you don't know
+    /// where the local maxima are for the deviation of the calculated value and
+    /// the offset is also unknown.
+    fn estimate(fastfield_accessor: &impl FastFieldDataAccess, stats: FastFieldStats) -> f32 {
+        let first_val_in_first_block = fastfield_accessor.get_val(0);
+        let last_elem_in_first_chunk = CHUNK_SIZE.min(stats.num_vals);
+        let last_val_in_first_block =
+            fastfield_accessor.get_val(last_elem_in_first_chunk as u64 - 1);
+        let slope = get_slope(
+            first_val_in_first_block,
+            last_val_in_first_block,
+            stats.num_vals,
+        );
+
+        // let's sample at 0%, 5%, 10% .. 95%, 100%, but for the first block only
+        let sample_positions = (0..20)
+            .map(|pos| (last_elem_in_first_chunk as f32 / 100.0 * pos as f32 * 5.0) as usize)
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+        let max_distance = sample_positions
+            .iter()
+            .map(|pos| {
+                let calculated_value =
+                    get_calculated_value(first_val_in_first_block, *pos as u64, slope);
+                let actual_value = fastfield_accessor.get_val(*pos as u64);
+                distance(calculated_value, actual_value)
+            })
+            .max()
+            .unwrap();
+
+        // Estimate one block and extrapolate the cost to all blocks.
+        // the theory would be that we don't have the actual max_distance, but we are close within 50%
+        // threshold.
+        // It is multiplied by 2 because in a log case scenario the line would be as much above as
+        // below. So the offset would = max_distance
+        //
+        let relative_max_value = (max_distance as f32 * 1.5) * 2.0;
+
+        let num_bits = compute_num_bits(relative_max_value as u64) as u64 * stats.num_vals as u64
+            // function metadata per block
+            + 29 * (stats.num_vals / CHUNK_SIZE);
+        let num_bits_uncompressed = 64 * stats.num_vals;
+        num_bits as f32 / num_bits_uncompressed as f32
+    }
+}
+
+fn distance<T: Sub<Output = T> + Ord>(x: T, y: T) -> T {
+    if x < y {
+        y - x
+    } else {
+        x - y
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::tests::get_codec_test_data_sets;
+
+    fn create_and_validate(data: &[u64], name: &str) -> (f32, f32) {
+        crate::tests::create_and_validate::<
+            MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldSerializer,
+            MultiLinearInterpolFastFieldReader,
+        >(data, name)
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_compression() {
+        let data = (10..=6_000_u64).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        let (estimate, actual_compression) =
+            create_and_validate(&data, "simple monotonically large");
+        assert!(actual_compression < 0.2);
+        assert!(estimate < 0.20);
+        assert!(estimate > 0.15);
+        assert!(actual_compression > 0.01);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_with_codec_data_sets() {
+        let data_sets = get_codec_test_data_sets();
+        for (mut data, name) in data_sets {
+            create_and_validate(&data, name);
+            data.reverse();
+            create_and_validate(&data, name);
+        }
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_simple() {
+        let data = (10..=20_u64).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        create_and_validate(&data, "simple monotonically");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn border_cases_1() {
+        let data = (0..1024).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        create_and_validate(&data, "border case");
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn border_case_2() {
+        let data = (0..1025).collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        create_and_validate(&data, "border case");
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn rand() {
+        for _ in 0..10 {
+            let mut data = (5_000..20_000)
+                .map(|_| rand::random::<u32>() as u64)
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+            let (estimate, actual_compression) = create_and_validate(&data, "random");
+            dbg!(estimate);
+            dbg!(actual_compression);
+
+            data.reverse();
+            create_and_validate(&data, "random");
+        }
+    }
+}

ownedbytes/Cargo.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[package]
+authors = ["Paul Masurel <paul@quickwit.io>", "Pascal Seitz <pascal@quickwit.io>"]
+name = "ownedbytes"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2018"
+description = "Expose data as static slice"
+license = "MIT"
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]
+stable_deref_trait = "1.2.0"

ownedbytes/src/lib.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,290 @@
+use stable_deref_trait::StableDeref;
+use std::convert::TryInto;
+use std::mem;
+use std::ops::{Deref, Range};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::{fmt, io};
+
+/// An OwnedBytes simply wraps an object that owns a slice of data and exposes
+/// this data as a static slice.
+///
+/// The backing object is required to be `StableDeref`.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct OwnedBytes {
+    data: &'static [u8],
+    box_stable_deref: Arc<dyn Deref<Target = [u8]> + Sync + Send>,
+}
+
+impl OwnedBytes {
+    /// Creates an empty `OwnedBytes`.
+    pub fn empty() -> OwnedBytes {
+        OwnedBytes::new(&[][..])
+    }
+
+    /// Creates an `OwnedBytes` intance given a `StableDeref` object.
+    pub fn new<T: StableDeref + Deref<Target = [u8]> + 'static + Send + Sync>(
+        data_holder: T,
+    ) -> OwnedBytes {
+        let box_stable_deref = Arc::new(data_holder);
+        let bytes: &[u8] = box_stable_deref.as_ref();
+        let data = unsafe { mem::transmute::<_, &'static [u8]>(bytes.deref()) };
+        OwnedBytes {
+            data,
+            box_stable_deref,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// creates a fileslice that is just a view over a slice of the data.
+    pub fn slice(&self, range: Range<usize>) -> Self {
+        OwnedBytes {
+            data: &self.data[range],
+            box_stable_deref: self.box_stable_deref.clone(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the underlying slice of data.
+    /// `Deref` and `AsRef` are also available.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn as_slice(&self) -> &[u8] {
+        self.data
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the len of the slice.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.data.len()
+    }
+
+    /// Splits the OwnedBytes into two OwnedBytes `(left, right)`.
+    ///
+    /// Left will hold `split_len` bytes.
+    ///
+    /// This operation is cheap and does not require to copy any memory.
+    /// On the other hand, both `left` and `right` retain a handle over
+    /// the entire slice of memory. In other words, the memory will only
+    /// be released when both left and right are dropped.
+    pub fn split(self, split_len: usize) -> (OwnedBytes, OwnedBytes) {
+        let right_box_stable_deref = self.box_stable_deref.clone();
+        let left = OwnedBytes {
+            data: &self.data[..split_len],
+            box_stable_deref: self.box_stable_deref,
+        };
+        let right = OwnedBytes {
+            data: &self.data[split_len..],
+            box_stable_deref: right_box_stable_deref,
+        };
+        (left, right)
+    }
+
+    /// Returns true iff this `OwnedBytes` is empty.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.as_slice().is_empty()
+    }
+
+    /// Drops the left most `advance_len` bytes.
+    ///
+    /// See also [.clip(clip_len: usize))](#method.clip).
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn advance(&mut self, advance_len: usize) {
+        self.data = &self.data[advance_len..]
+    }
+
+    /// Reads an `u8` from the `OwnedBytes` and advance by one byte.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn read_u8(&mut self) -> u8 {
+        assert!(!self.is_empty());
+
+        let byte = self.as_slice()[0];
+        self.advance(1);
+        byte
+    }
+
+    /// Reads an `u64` encoded as little-endian from the `OwnedBytes` and advance by 8 bytes.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn read_u64(&mut self) -> u64 {
+        assert!(self.len() > 7);
+
+        let octlet: [u8; 8] = self.as_slice()[..8].try_into().unwrap();
+        self.advance(8);
+        u64::from_le_bytes(octlet)
+    }
+}
+
+impl fmt::Debug for OwnedBytes {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+        // We truncate the bytes in order to make sure the debug string
+        // is not too long.
+        let bytes_truncated: &[u8] = if self.len() > 8 {
+            &self.as_slice()[..10]
+        } else {
+            self.as_slice()
+        };
+        write!(f, "OwnedBytes({:?}, len={})", bytes_truncated, self.len())
+    }
+}
+
+impl Deref for OwnedBytes {
+    type Target = [u8];
+
+    #[inline]
+    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
+        self.as_slice()
+    }
+}
+
+impl io::Read for OwnedBytes {
+    #[inline]
+    fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> io::Result<usize> {
+        let read_len = {
+            let data = self.as_slice();
+            if data.len() >= buf.len() {
+                let buf_len = buf.len();
+                buf.copy_from_slice(&data[..buf_len]);
+                buf.len()
+            } else {
+                let data_len = data.len();
+                buf[..data_len].copy_from_slice(data);
+                data_len
+            }
+        };
+        self.advance(read_len);
+        Ok(read_len)
+    }
+    #[inline]
+    fn read_to_end(&mut self, buf: &mut Vec<u8>) -> io::Result<usize> {
+        let read_len = {
+            let data = self.as_slice();
+            buf.extend(data);
+            data.len()
+        };
+        self.advance(read_len);
+        Ok(read_len)
+    }
+    #[inline]
+    fn read_exact(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
+        let read_len = self.read(buf)?;
+        if read_len != buf.len() {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(
+                io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof,
+                "failed to fill whole buffer",
+            ));
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+impl AsRef<[u8]> for OwnedBytes {
+    #[inline]
+    fn as_ref(&self) -> &[u8] {
+        self.as_slice()
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use std::io::{self, Read};
+
+    use super::OwnedBytes;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_owned_bytes_debug() {
+        let short_bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"abcd".as_ref());
+        assert_eq!(
+            format!("{:?}", short_bytes),
+            "OwnedBytes([97, 98, 99, 100], len=4)"
+        );
+        let long_bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"abcdefghijklmnopq".as_ref());
+        assert_eq!(
+            format!("{:?}", long_bytes),
+            "OwnedBytes([97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106], len=17)"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_owned_bytes_read() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let mut bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"abcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz".as_ref());
+        {
+            let mut buf = [0u8; 5];
+            bytes.read_exact(&mut buf[..]).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(&buf, b"abcde");
+            assert_eq!(bytes.as_slice(), b"fghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz")
+        }
+        {
+            let mut buf = [0u8; 2];
+            bytes.read_exact(&mut buf[..]).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(&buf, b"fg");
+            assert_eq!(bytes.as_slice(), b"hiklmnopqrstuvwxyz")
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_owned_bytes_read_right_at_the_end() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let mut bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"abcde".as_ref());
+        let mut buf = [0u8; 5];
+        assert_eq!(bytes.read(&mut buf[..]).unwrap(), 5);
+        assert_eq!(&buf, b"abcde");
+        assert_eq!(bytes.as_slice(), b"");
+        assert_eq!(bytes.read(&mut buf[..]).unwrap(), 0);
+        assert_eq!(&buf, b"abcde");
+        Ok(())
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_owned_bytes_read_incomplete() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let mut bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"abcde".as_ref());
+        let mut buf = [0u8; 7];
+        assert_eq!(bytes.read(&mut buf[..]).unwrap(), 5);
+        assert_eq!(&buf[..5], b"abcde");
+        assert_eq!(bytes.read(&mut buf[..]).unwrap(), 0);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_owned_bytes_read_to_end() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let mut bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"abcde".as_ref());
+        let mut buf = Vec::new();
+        bytes.read_to_end(&mut buf)?;
+        assert_eq!(buf.as_slice(), b"abcde".as_ref());
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_owned_bytes_read_u8() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let mut bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"\xFF".as_ref());
+        assert_eq!(bytes.read_u8(), 255);
+        assert_eq!(bytes.len(), 0);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_owned_bytes_read_u64() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let mut bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"\0\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF".as_ref());
+        assert_eq!(bytes.read_u64(), u64::MAX - 255);
+        assert_eq!(bytes.len(), 0);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_owned_bytes_split() {
+        let bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"abcdefghi".as_ref());
+        let (left, right) = bytes.split(3);
+        assert_eq!(left.as_slice(), b"abc");
+        assert_eq!(right.as_slice(), b"defghi");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_owned_bytes_split_boundary() {
+        let bytes = OwnedBytes::new(b"abcdefghi".as_ref());
+        {
+            let (left, right) = bytes.clone().split(0);
+            assert_eq!(left.as_slice(), b"");
+            assert_eq!(right.as_slice(), b"abcdefghi");
+        }
+        {
+            let (left, right) = bytes.split(9);
+            assert_eq!(left.as_slice(), b"abcdefghi");
+            assert_eq!(right.as_slice(), b"");
+        }
+    }
+}

query-grammar/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "tantivy-query-grammar"
-version = "0.11.0"
+version = "0.15.0"
 authors = ["Paul Masurel <paul.masurel@gmail.com>"]
 license = "MIT"
 categories = ["database-implementations", "data-structures"]
@@ -13,4 +13,6 @@ keywords = ["search", "information", "retrieval"]
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
-combine = ">=3.6.0,<4.0.0"
+combine = {version="4", default-features=false, features=[] }
+once_cell = "1.7.2"
+regex ={ version = "1.5.4", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }

query-grammar/src/lib.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-#![recursion_limit = "100"]
-
 mod occur;
 mod query_grammar;
 mod user_input_ast;
@@ -7,11 +5,11 @@ use combine::parser::Parser;
 
 pub use crate::occur::Occur;
 use crate::query_grammar::parse_to_ast;
-pub use crate::user_input_ast::{UserInputAST, UserInputBound, UserInputLeaf, UserInputLiteral};
+pub use crate::user_input_ast::{UserInputAst, UserInputBound, UserInputLeaf, UserInputLiteral};
 
 pub struct Error;
 
-pub fn parse_query(query: &str) -> Result<UserInputAST, Error> {
+pub fn parse_query(query: &str) -> Result<UserInputAst, Error> {
     let (user_input_ast, _remaining) = parse_to_ast().parse(query).map_err(|_| Error)?;
     Ok(user_input_ast)
 }

query-grammar/src/occur.rs

@@ -31,22 +31,12 @@ impl Occur {
 
     /// Compose two occur values.
     pub fn compose(left: Occur, right: Occur) -> Occur {
-        match left {
-            Occur::Should => right,
-            Occur::Must => {
-                if right == Occur::MustNot {
-                    Occur::MustNot
-                } else {
-                    Occur::Must
-                }
-            }
-            Occur::MustNot => {
-                if right == Occur::MustNot {
-                    Occur::Must
-                } else {
-                    Occur::MustNot
-                }
-            }
+        match (left, right) {
+            (Occur::Should, _) => right,
+            (Occur::Must, Occur::MustNot) => Occur::MustNot,
+            (Occur::Must, _) => Occur::Must,
+            (Occur::MustNot, Occur::MustNot) => Occur::Must,
+            (Occur::MustNot, _) => Occur::MustNot,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -56,3 +46,27 @@ impl fmt::Display for Occur {
         f.write_char(self.to_char())
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod test {
+    use crate::Occur;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_occur_compose() {
+        assert_eq!(Occur::compose(Occur::Should, Occur::Should), Occur::Should);
+        assert_eq!(Occur::compose(Occur::Should, Occur::Must), Occur::Must);
+        assert_eq!(
+            Occur::compose(Occur::Should, Occur::MustNot),
+            Occur::MustNot
+        );
+        assert_eq!(Occur::compose(Occur::Must, Occur::Should), Occur::Must);
+        assert_eq!(Occur::compose(Occur::Must, Occur::Must), Occur::Must);
+        assert_eq!(Occur::compose(Occur::Must, Occur::MustNot), Occur::MustNot);
+        assert_eq!(
+            Occur::compose(Occur::MustNot, Occur::Should),
+            Occur::MustNot
+        );
+        assert_eq!(Occur::compose(Occur::MustNot, Occur::Must), Occur::MustNot);
+        assert_eq!(Occur::compose(Occur::MustNot, Occur::MustNot), Occur::Must);
+    }
+}

query-grammar/src/query_grammar.rs

@@ -1,171 +1,291 @@
-use super::user_input_ast::*;
+use super::user_input_ast::{UserInputAst, UserInputBound, UserInputLeaf, UserInputLiteral};
 use crate::Occur;
-use combine::char::*;
-use combine::error::StreamError;
-use combine::stream::StreamErrorFor;
-use combine::*;
+use combine::parser::char::{char, digit, space, spaces, string};
+use combine::parser::range::{take_while, take_while1};
+use combine::parser::repeat::escaped;
+use combine::parser::Parser;
+use combine::{
+    attempt, choice, eof, many, many1, one_of, optional, parser, satisfy, skip_many1, value,
+};
+use combine::{error::StringStreamError, parser::combinator::recognize};
+use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+use regex::Regex;
 
-parser! {
-    fn field[I]()(I) -> String
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>] {
+// Note: '-' char is only forbidden at the beginning of a field name, would be clearer to add it to special characters.
+const SPECIAL_CHARS: &[char] = &[
+    '+', '^', '`', ':', '{', '}', '"', '[', ']', '(', ')', '~', '!', '\\', '*', ' ',
+];
+const ESCAPED_SPECIAL_CHARS_PATTERN: &str = r#"\\(\+|\^|`|:|\{|\}|"|\[|\]|\(|\)|\~|!|\\|\*| )"#;
+
+/// Parses a field_name
+/// A field name must have at least one character and be followed by a colon.
+/// All characters are allowed including special characters `SPECIAL_CHARS`, but these
+/// need to be escaped with a backslack character '\'.
+fn field_name<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = String> {
+    static ESCAPED_SPECIAL_CHARS_RE: Lazy<Regex> =
+        Lazy::new(|| Regex::new(ESCAPED_SPECIAL_CHARS_PATTERN).unwrap());
+
+    recognize::<String, _, _>(escaped(
         (
-            letter(),
-            many(satisfy(|c: char| c.is_alphanumeric() || c == '_')),
-        ).skip(char(':')).map(|(s1, s2): (char, String)| format!("{}{}", s1, s2))
-    }
+            take_while1(|c| !SPECIAL_CHARS.contains(&c) && c != '-'),
+            take_while(|c| !SPECIAL_CHARS.contains(&c)),
+        ),
+        '\\',
+        satisfy(|c| SPECIAL_CHARS.contains(&c)),
+    ))
+    .skip(char(':'))
+    .map(|s| ESCAPED_SPECIAL_CHARS_RE.replace_all(&s, "$1").to_string())
+    .and_then(|s: String| match s.is_empty() {
+        true => Err(StringStreamError::UnexpectedParse),
+        _ => Ok(s),
+    })
 }
 
-parser! {
-    fn word[I]()(I) -> String
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>] {
-        (
-            satisfy(|c: char| !c.is_whitespace() && !['-', '`', ':', '{', '}', '"', '[', ']', '(',')'].contains(&c) ),
-            many(satisfy(|c: char| !c.is_whitespace() && ![':', '{', '}', '"', '[', ']', '(',')'].contains(&c)))
-        )
+fn word<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = String> {
+    (
+        satisfy(|c: char| {
+            !c.is_whitespace()
+                && !['-', '^', '`', ':', '{', '}', '"', '[', ']', '(', ')'].contains(&c)
+        }),
+        many(satisfy(|c: char| {
+            !c.is_whitespace() && ![':', '^', '{', '}', '"', '[', ']', '(', ')'].contains(&c)
+        })),
+    )
         .map(|(s1, s2): (char, String)| format!("{}{}", s1, s2))
-        .and_then(|s: String|
-           match s.as_str() {
-             "OR" => Err(StreamErrorFor::<I>::unexpected_static_message("OR")),
-             "AND" => Err(StreamErrorFor::<I>::unexpected_static_message("AND")),
-             "NOT" => Err(StreamErrorFor::<I>::unexpected_static_message("NOT")),
-             _ => Ok(s)
-           })
-    }
-}
-
-parser! {
-    fn literal[I]()(I) -> UserInputLeaf
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>]
-    {
-        let term_val = || {
-            let phrase = char('"').with(many1(satisfy(|c| c != '"'))).skip(char('"'));
-            phrase.or(word())
-        };
-        let term_val_with_field = negative_number().or(term_val());
-        let term_query =
-            (field(), term_val_with_field)
-            .map(|(field_name, phrase)| UserInputLiteral {
-                field_name: Some(field_name),
-                phrase,
-            });
-        let term_default_field = term_val().map(|phrase| UserInputLiteral {
-            field_name: None,
-            phrase,
-        });
-        attempt(term_query)
-            .or(term_default_field)
-            .map(UserInputLeaf::from)
-    }
-}
-
-parser! {
-    fn negative_number[I]()(I) -> String
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>]
-    {
-        (char('-'), many1(satisfy(char::is_numeric)),
-         optional((char('.'), many1(satisfy(char::is_numeric)))))
-            .map(|(s1, s2, s3): (char, String, Option<(char, String)>)| {
-                if let Some(('.', s3)) = s3 {
-                    format!("{}{}.{}", s1, s2, s3)
-                } else {
-                    format!("{}{}", s1, s2)
-                }
-            })
-    }
-}
-
-parser! {
-    fn spaces1[I]()(I) -> ()
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>] {
-        skip_many1(space())
-    }
-}
-
-parser! {
-    /// Function that parses a range out of a Stream
-    /// Supports ranges like:
-    /// [5 TO 10], {5 TO 10}, [* TO 10], [10 TO *], {10 TO *], >5, <=10
-    /// [a TO *], [a TO c], [abc TO bcd}
-    fn range[I]()(I) -> UserInputLeaf
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>] {
-        let range_term_val = || {
-            word().or(negative_number()).or(char('*').with(value("*".to_string())))
-        };
-
-        // check for unbounded range in the form of <5, <=10, >5, >=5
-        let elastic_unbounded_range = (choice([attempt(string(">=")),
-                                               attempt(string("<=")),
-                                               attempt(string("<")),
-                                               attempt(string(">"))])
-                                       .skip(spaces()),
-                                       range_term_val()).
-            map(|(comparison_sign, bound): (&str, String)|
-                match comparison_sign {
-                    ">=" => (UserInputBound::Inclusive(bound), UserInputBound::Unbounded),
-                    "<=" => (UserInputBound::Unbounded, UserInputBound::Inclusive(bound)),
-                    "<" => (UserInputBound::Unbounded, UserInputBound::Exclusive(bound)),
-                    ">" => (UserInputBound::Exclusive(bound), UserInputBound::Unbounded),
-                    // default case
-                    _ => (UserInputBound::Unbounded, UserInputBound::Unbounded)
-                });
-        let lower_bound = (one_of("{[".chars()), range_term_val())
-            .map(|(boundary_char, lower_bound): (char, String)|
-                 if lower_bound == "*" {
-                     UserInputBound::Unbounded
-                 } else if boundary_char == '{' {
-                         UserInputBound::Exclusive(lower_bound)
-                 } else {
-                     UserInputBound::Inclusive(lower_bound)
-                 });
-        let upper_bound = (range_term_val(), one_of("}]".chars()))
-            .map(|(higher_bound, boundary_char): (String, char)|
-                 if higher_bound == "*" {
-                     UserInputBound::Unbounded
-                 } else if boundary_char == '}' {
-                     UserInputBound::Exclusive(higher_bound)
-                 } else {
-                     UserInputBound::Inclusive(higher_bound)
-                 });
-         // return only lower and upper
-        let lower_to_upper = (lower_bound.
-                                    skip((spaces(),
-                                          string("TO"),
-                                          spaces())),
-                                    upper_bound);
-
-        (optional(field()).skip(spaces()),
-         // try elastic first, if it matches, the range is unbounded
-         attempt(elastic_unbounded_range).or(lower_to_upper))
-            .map(|(field, (lower, upper))|
-                 // Construct the leaf from extracted field (optional)
-                 // and bounds
-                 UserInputLeaf::Range {
-                     field,
-                     lower,
-                     upper
+        .and_then(|s: String| match s.as_str() {
+            "OR" | "AND " | "NOT" => Err(StringStreamError::UnexpectedParse),
+            _ => Ok(s),
         })
-    }
 }
 
-fn negate(expr: UserInputAST) -> UserInputAST {
+/// Parses a date time according to rfc3339
+/// 2015-08-02T18:54:42+02
+/// 2021-04-13T19:46:26.266051969+00:00
+///
+/// NOTE: also accepts 999999-99-99T99:99:99.266051969+99:99
+/// We delegate rejecting such invalid dates to the logical AST compuation code
+/// which invokes chrono::DateTime::parse_from_rfc3339 on the value to actually parse
+/// it (instead of merely extracting the datetime value as string as done here).
+fn date_time<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = String> {
+    let two_digits = || recognize::<String, _, _>((digit(), digit()));
+
+    // Parses a time zone
+    // -06:30
+    // Z
+    let time_zone = {
+        let utc = recognize::<String, _, _>(char('Z'));
+        let offset = recognize((
+            choice([char('-'), char('+')]),
+            two_digits(),
+            char(':'),
+            two_digits(),
+        ));
+
+        utc.or(offset)
+    };
+
+    // Parses a date
+    // 2010-01-30
+    let date = {
+        recognize::<String, _, _>((
+            many1::<String, _, _>(digit()),
+            char('-'),
+            two_digits(),
+            char('-'),
+            two_digits(),
+        ))
+    };
+
+    // Parses a time
+    // 12:30:02
+    // 19:46:26.266051969
+    let time = {
+        recognize::<String, _, _>((
+            two_digits(),
+            char(':'),
+            two_digits(),
+            char(':'),
+            two_digits(),
+            optional((char('.'), many1::<String, _, _>(digit()))),
+            time_zone,
+        ))
+    };
+
+    recognize((date, char('T'), time))
+}
+
+fn term_val<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = String> {
+    let phrase = char('"').with(many1(satisfy(|c| c != '"'))).skip(char('"'));
+    phrase.or(word())
+}
+
+fn term_query<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = UserInputLiteral> {
+    let term_val_with_field = negative_number().or(term_val());
+    (field_name(), term_val_with_field).map(|(field_name, phrase)| UserInputLiteral {
+        field_name: Some(field_name),
+        phrase,
+    })
+}
+
+fn literal<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = UserInputLeaf> {
+    let term_default_field = term_val().map(|phrase| UserInputLiteral {
+        field_name: None,
+        phrase,
+    });
+    attempt(term_query())
+        .or(term_default_field)
+        .map(UserInputLeaf::from)
+}
+
+fn negative_number<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = String> {
+    (
+        char('-'),
+        many1(digit()),
+        optional((char('.'), many1(digit()))),
+    )
+        .map(|(s1, s2, s3): (char, String, Option<(char, String)>)| {
+            if let Some(('.', s3)) = s3 {
+                format!("{}{}.{}", s1, s2, s3)
+            } else {
+                format!("{}{}", s1, s2)
+            }
+        })
+}
+
+fn spaces1<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = ()> {
+    skip_many1(space())
+}
+
+/// Function that parses a range out of a Stream
+/// Supports ranges like:
+/// [5 TO 10], {5 TO 10}, [* TO 10], [10 TO *], {10 TO *], >5, <=10
+/// [a TO *], [a TO c], [abc TO bcd}
+fn range<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = UserInputLeaf> {
+    let range_term_val = || {
+        attempt(date_time())
+            .or(word())
+            .or(negative_number())
+            .or(char('*').with(value("*".to_string())))
+    };
+
+    // check for unbounded range in the form of <5, <=10, >5, >=5
+    let elastic_unbounded_range = (
+        choice([
+            attempt(string(">=")),
+            attempt(string("<=")),
+            attempt(string("<")),
+            attempt(string(">")),
+        ])
+        .skip(spaces()),
+        range_term_val(),
+    )
+        .map(
+            |(comparison_sign, bound): (&str, String)| match comparison_sign {
+                ">=" => (UserInputBound::Inclusive(bound), UserInputBound::Unbounded),
+                "<=" => (UserInputBound::Unbounded, UserInputBound::Inclusive(bound)),
+                "<" => (UserInputBound::Unbounded, UserInputBound::Exclusive(bound)),
+                ">" => (UserInputBound::Exclusive(bound), UserInputBound::Unbounded),
+                // default case
+                _ => (UserInputBound::Unbounded, UserInputBound::Unbounded),
+            },
+        );
+    let lower_bound = (one_of("{[".chars()), range_term_val()).map(
+        |(boundary_char, lower_bound): (char, String)| {
+            if lower_bound == "*" {
+                UserInputBound::Unbounded
+            } else if boundary_char == '{' {
+                UserInputBound::Exclusive(lower_bound)
+            } else {
+                UserInputBound::Inclusive(lower_bound)
+            }
+        },
+    );
+    let upper_bound = (range_term_val(), one_of("}]".chars())).map(
+        |(higher_bound, boundary_char): (String, char)| {
+            if higher_bound == "*" {
+                UserInputBound::Unbounded
+            } else if boundary_char == '}' {
+                UserInputBound::Exclusive(higher_bound)
+            } else {
+                UserInputBound::Inclusive(higher_bound)
+            }
+        },
+    );
+    // return only lower and upper
+    let lower_to_upper = (
+        lower_bound.skip((spaces(), string("TO"), spaces())),
+        upper_bound,
+    );
+
+    (
+        optional(field_name()).skip(spaces()),
+        // try elastic first, if it matches, the range is unbounded
+        attempt(elastic_unbounded_range).or(lower_to_upper),
+    )
+        .map(|(field, (lower, upper))|
+             // Construct the leaf from extracted field (optional)
+             // and bounds
+             UserInputLeaf::Range {
+                 field,
+                 lower,
+                 upper
+    })
+}
+
+fn negate(expr: UserInputAst) -> UserInputAst {
     expr.unary(Occur::MustNot)
 }
 
-fn must(expr: UserInputAST) -> UserInputAST {
-    expr.unary(Occur::Must)
+fn leaf<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = UserInputAst> {
+    parser(|input| {
+        char('(')
+            .with(ast())
+            .skip(char(')'))
+            .or(char('*').map(|_| UserInputAst::from(UserInputLeaf::All)))
+            .or(attempt(
+                string("NOT").skip(spaces1()).with(leaf()).map(negate),
+            ))
+            .or(attempt(range().map(UserInputAst::from)))
+            .or(literal().map(UserInputAst::from))
+            .parse_stream(input)
+            .into_result()
+    })
 }
 
-parser! {
-    fn leaf[I]()(I) -> UserInputAST
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>] {
-            char('-').with(leaf()).map(negate)
-        .or(char('+').with(leaf()).map(must))
-        .or(char('(').with(ast()).skip(char(')')))
-        .or(char('*').map(|_| UserInputAST::from(UserInputLeaf::All)))
-        .or(attempt(string("NOT").skip(spaces1()).with(leaf()).map(negate)))
-        .or(attempt(range().map(UserInputAST::from)))
-        .or(literal().map(UserInputAST::from))
-    }
+fn occur_symbol<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = Occur> {
+    char('-')
+        .map(|_| Occur::MustNot)
+        .or(char('+').map(|_| Occur::Must))
+}
+
+fn occur_leaf<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = (Option<Occur>, UserInputAst)> {
+    (optional(occur_symbol()), boosted_leaf())
+}
+
+fn positive_float_number<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = f64> {
+    (many1(digit()), optional((char('.'), many1(digit())))).map(
+        |(int_part, decimal_part_opt): (String, Option<(char, String)>)| {
+            let mut float_str = int_part;
+            if let Some((chr, decimal_str)) = decimal_part_opt {
+                float_str.push(chr);
+                float_str.push_str(&decimal_str);
+            }
+            float_str.parse::<f64>().unwrap()
+        },
+    )
+}
+
+fn boost<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = f64> {
+    (char('^'), positive_float_number()).map(|(_, boost)| boost)
+}
+
+fn boosted_leaf<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = UserInputAst> {
+    (leaf(), optional(boost())).map(|(leaf, boost_opt)| match boost_opt {
+        Some(boost) if (boost - 1.0).abs() > std::f64::EPSILON => {
+            UserInputAst::Boost(Box::new(leaf), boost)
+        }
+        _ => leaf,
+    })
 }
 
 #[derive(Clone, Copy)]
@@ -174,20 +294,17 @@ enum BinaryOperand {
     And,
 }
 
-parser! {
-    fn binary_operand[I]()(I) -> BinaryOperand
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>]
-    {
-       string("AND").with(value(BinaryOperand::And))
-       .or(string("OR").with(value(BinaryOperand::Or)))
-    }
+fn binary_operand<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = BinaryOperand> {
+    string("AND")
+        .with(value(BinaryOperand::And))
+        .or(string("OR").with(value(BinaryOperand::Or)))
 }
 
 fn aggregate_binary_expressions(
-    left: UserInputAST,
-    others: Vec<(BinaryOperand, UserInputAST)>,
-) -> UserInputAST {
-    let mut dnf: Vec<Vec<UserInputAST>> = vec![vec![left]];
+    left: UserInputAst,
+    others: Vec<(BinaryOperand, UserInputAst)>,
+) -> UserInputAst {
+    let mut dnf: Vec<Vec<UserInputAst>> = vec![vec![left]];
     for (operator, operand_ast) in others {
         match operator {
             BinaryOperand::And => {
@@ -201,44 +318,107 @@ fn aggregate_binary_expressions(
         }
     }
     if dnf.len() == 1 {
-        UserInputAST::and(dnf.into_iter().next().unwrap()) //< safe
+        UserInputAst::and(dnf.into_iter().next().unwrap()) //< safe
     } else {
-        let conjunctions = dnf.into_iter().map(UserInputAST::and).collect();
-        UserInputAST::or(conjunctions)
+        let conjunctions = dnf.into_iter().map(UserInputAst::and).collect();
+        UserInputAst::or(conjunctions)
     }
 }
 
-parser! {
-    pub fn ast[I]()(I) -> UserInputAST
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>]
-    {
-        let operand_leaf = (binary_operand().skip(spaces()), leaf().skip(spaces()));
-        let boolean_expr = (leaf().skip(spaces().silent()), many1(operand_leaf)).map(
-            |(left, right)| aggregate_binary_expressions(left,right));
-        let whitespace_separated_leaves = many1(leaf().skip(spaces().silent()))
-        .map(|subqueries: Vec<UserInputAST>|
+fn operand_leaf<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = (BinaryOperand, UserInputAst)> {
+    (
+        binary_operand().skip(spaces()),
+        boosted_leaf().skip(spaces()),
+    )
+}
+
+pub fn ast<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = UserInputAst> {
+    let boolean_expr = (boosted_leaf().skip(spaces()), many1(operand_leaf()))
+        .map(|(left, right)| aggregate_binary_expressions(left, right));
+    let whitespace_separated_leaves = many1(occur_leaf().skip(spaces().silent())).map(
+        |subqueries: Vec<(Option<Occur>, UserInputAst)>| {
             if subqueries.len() == 1 {
-                subqueries.into_iter().next().unwrap()
+                let (occur_opt, ast) = subqueries.into_iter().next().unwrap();
+                match occur_opt.unwrap_or(Occur::Should) {
+                    Occur::Must | Occur::Should => ast,
+                    Occur::MustNot => UserInputAst::Clause(vec![(Some(Occur::MustNot), ast)]),
+                }
             } else {
-                UserInputAST::Clause(subqueries.into_iter().collect())
-            });
-        let expr = attempt(boolean_expr).or(whitespace_separated_leaves);
-        spaces().with(expr).skip(spaces())
-    }
+                UserInputAst::Clause(subqueries.into_iter().collect())
+            }
+        },
+    );
+    let expr = attempt(boolean_expr).or(whitespace_separated_leaves);
+    spaces().with(expr).skip(spaces())
 }
 
-parser! {
-    pub fn parse_to_ast[I]()(I) -> UserInputAST
-    where [I: Stream<Item = char>]
-    {
-        spaces().with(optional(ast()).skip(eof())).map(|opt_ast| opt_ast.unwrap_or_else(UserInputAST::empty_query))
-    }
+pub fn parse_to_ast<'a>() -> impl Parser<&'a str, Output = UserInputAst> {
+    spaces()
+        .with(optional(ast()).skip(eof()))
+        .map(|opt_ast| opt_ast.unwrap_or_else(UserInputAst::empty_query))
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
 
+    type TestParseResult = Result<(), StringStreamError>;
+
     use super::*;
+    use combine::parser::Parser;
+
+    pub fn nearly_equals(a: f64, b: f64) -> bool {
+        (a - b).abs() < 0.0005 * (a + b).abs()
+    }
+
+    fn assert_nearly_equals(expected: f64, val: f64) {
+        assert!(
+            nearly_equals(val, expected),
+            "Got {}, expected {}.",
+            val,
+            expected
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_occur_symbol() -> TestParseResult {
+        assert_eq!(super::occur_symbol().parse("-")?, (Occur::MustNot, ""));
+        assert_eq!(super::occur_symbol().parse("+")?, (Occur::Must, ""));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_positive_float_number() {
+        fn valid_parse(float_str: &str, expected_val: f64, expected_remaining: &str) {
+            let (val, remaining) = positive_float_number().parse(float_str).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(remaining, expected_remaining);
+            assert_nearly_equals(val, expected_val);
+        }
+        fn error_parse(float_str: &str) {
+            assert!(positive_float_number().parse(float_str).is_err());
+        }
+        valid_parse("1.0", 1.0, "");
+        valid_parse("1", 1.0, "");
+        valid_parse("0.234234 aaa", 0.234234f64, " aaa");
+        error_parse(".3332");
+        error_parse("1.");
+        error_parse("-1.");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_date_time() {
+        let (val, remaining) = date_time()
+            .parse("2015-08-02T18:54:42+02:30")
+            .expect("cannot parse date");
+        assert_eq!(val, "2015-08-02T18:54:42+02:30");
+        assert_eq!(remaining, "");
+        assert!(date_time().parse("2015-08-02T18:54:42+02").is_err());
+
+        let (val, remaining) = date_time()
+            .parse("2021-04-13T19:46:26.266051969+00:00")
+            .expect("cannot parse fractional date");
+        assert_eq!(val, "2021-04-13T19:46:26.266051969+00:00");
+        assert_eq!(remaining, "");
+    }
 
     fn test_parse_query_to_ast_helper(query: &str, expected: &str) {
         let query = parse_to_ast().parse(query).unwrap().0;
@@ -269,15 +449,24 @@ mod test {
             "Err(UnexpectedParse)"
         );
         test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("NOTa", "\"NOTa\"");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("NOT a", "-(\"a\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("NOT a", "(-\"a\")");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_boosting() {
+        assert!(parse_to_ast().parse("a^2^3").is_err());
+        assert!(parse_to_ast().parse("a^2^").is_err());
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a^3", "(\"a\")^3");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a^3 b^2", "(*(\"a\")^3 *(\"b\")^2)");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a^1", "\"a\"");
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_parse_query_to_ast_binary_op() {
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a AND b", "(+(\"a\") +(\"b\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a OR b", "(?(\"a\") ?(\"b\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a OR b AND c", "(?(\"a\") ?((+(\"b\") +(\"c\"))))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a AND b         AND c", "(+(\"a\") +(\"b\") +(\"c\"))");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a AND b", "(+\"a\" +\"b\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a OR b", "(?\"a\" ?\"b\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a OR b AND c", "(?\"a\" ?(+\"b\" +\"c\"))");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a AND b         AND c", "(+\"a\" +\"b\" +\"c\")");
         assert_eq!(
             format!("{:?}", parse_to_ast().parse("a OR b aaa")),
             "Err(UnexpectedParse)"
@@ -298,83 +487,207 @@ mod test {
 
     #[test]
     fn test_parse_elastic_query_ranges() {
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title: >a", "title:{\"a\" TO \"*\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title:>=a", "title:[\"a\" TO \"*\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title: <a", "title:{\"*\" TO \"a\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title:<=a", "title:{\"*\" TO \"a\"]");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title:<=bsd", "title:{\"*\" TO \"bsd\"]");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title: >a", "\"title\":{\"a\" TO \"*\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title:>=a", "\"title\":[\"a\" TO \"*\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title: <a", "\"title\":{\"*\" TO \"a\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title:<=a", "\"title\":{\"*\" TO \"a\"]");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("title:<=bsd", "\"title\":{\"*\" TO \"bsd\"]");
 
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: >70", "weight:{\"70\" TO \"*\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight:>=70", "weight:[\"70\" TO \"*\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: <70", "weight:{\"*\" TO \"70\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight:<=70", "weight:{\"*\" TO \"70\"]");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: >60.7", "weight:{\"60.7\" TO \"*\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: >70", "\"weight\":{\"70\" TO \"*\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight:>=70", "\"weight\":[\"70\" TO \"*\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: <70", "\"weight\":{\"*\" TO \"70\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight:<=70", "\"weight\":{\"*\" TO \"70\"]");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: >60.7", "\"weight\":{\"60.7\" TO \"*\"}");
 
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: <= 70", "weight:{\"*\" TO \"70\"]");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: <= 70", "\"weight\":{\"*\" TO \"70\"]");
 
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: <= 70.5", "weight:{\"*\" TO \"70.5\"]");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("weight: <= 70.5", "\"weight\":{\"*\" TO \"70.5\"]");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_occur_leaf() {
+        let ((occur, ast), _) = super::occur_leaf().parse("+abc").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(occur, Some(Occur::Must));
+        assert_eq!(format!("{:?}", ast), "\"abc\"");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_field_name() -> TestParseResult {
+        assert_eq!(
+            super::field_name().parse(".my.field.name:a"),
+            Ok((".my.field.name".to_string(), "a"))
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            super::field_name().parse("my\\ field\\ name:a"),
+            Ok(("my field name".to_string(), "a"))
+        );
+        assert!(super::field_name().parse("my field:a").is_err());
+        assert_eq!(
+            super::field_name().parse("\\(1\\+1\\):2"),
+            Ok(("(1+1)".to_string(), "2"))
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            super::field_name().parse("my_field_name:a"),
+            Ok(("my_field_name".to_string(), "a"))
+        );
+        assert!(super::field_name().parse("my_field_name").is_err());
+        assert!(super::field_name().parse(":a").is_err());
+        assert!(super::field_name().parse("-my_field:a").is_err());
+        assert_eq!(
+            super::field_name().parse("_my_field:a")?,
+            ("_my_field".to_string(), "a")
+        );
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_field_name_re() {
+        let escaped_special_chars_re = Regex::new(ESCAPED_SPECIAL_CHARS_PATTERN).unwrap();
+        for special_char in SPECIAL_CHARS.iter() {
+            assert_eq!(
+                escaped_special_chars_re.replace_all(&format!("\\{}", special_char), "$1"),
+                special_char.to_string()
+            );
+        }
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_range_parser() {
         // testing the range() parser separately
-        let res = range().parse("title: <hello").unwrap().0;
+        let res = range()
+            .parse("title: <hello")
+            .expect("Cannot parse felxible bound word")
+            .0;
         let expected = UserInputLeaf::Range {
             field: Some("title".to_string()),
             lower: UserInputBound::Unbounded,
             upper: UserInputBound::Exclusive("hello".to_string()),
         };
-        let res2 = range().parse("title:{* TO hello}").unwrap().0;
+        let res2 = range()
+            .parse("title:{* TO hello}")
+            .expect("Cannot parse ununbounded to word")
+            .0;
         assert_eq!(res, expected);
         assert_eq!(res2, expected);
+
         let expected_weight = UserInputLeaf::Range {
             field: Some("weight".to_string()),
             lower: UserInputBound::Inclusive("71.2".to_string()),
             upper: UserInputBound::Unbounded,
         };
-
-        let res3 = range().parse("weight: >=71.2").unwrap().0;
-        let res4 = range().parse("weight:[71.2 TO *}").unwrap().0;
+        let res3 = range()
+            .parse("weight: >=71.2")
+            .expect("Cannot parse flexible bound float")
+            .0;
+        let res4 = range()
+            .parse("weight:[71.2 TO *}")
+            .expect("Cannot parse float to unbounded")
+            .0;
         assert_eq!(res3, expected_weight);
         assert_eq!(res4, expected_weight);
+
+        let expected_dates = UserInputLeaf::Range {
+            field: Some("date_field".to_string()),
+            lower: UserInputBound::Exclusive("2015-08-02T18:54:42Z".to_string()),
+            upper: UserInputBound::Inclusive("2021-08-02T18:54:42+02:30".to_string()),
+        };
+        let res5 = range()
+            .parse("date_field:{2015-08-02T18:54:42Z TO 2021-08-02T18:54:42+02:30]")
+            .expect("Cannot parse date range")
+            .0;
+        assert_eq!(res5, expected_dates);
+
+        let expected_flexible_dates = UserInputLeaf::Range {
+            field: Some("date_field".to_string()),
+            lower: UserInputBound::Unbounded,
+            upper: UserInputBound::Inclusive("2021-08-02T18:54:42.12345+02:30".to_string()),
+        };
+
+        let res6 = range()
+            .parse("date_field: <=2021-08-02T18:54:42.12345+02:30")
+            .expect("Cannot parse date range")
+            .0;
+        assert_eq!(res6, expected_flexible_dates);
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_parse_query_to_triming_spaces() {
         test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("   abc", "\"abc\"");
         test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc ", "\"abc\"");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(  a OR abc)", "(?(\"a\") ?(\"abc\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(a  OR abc)", "(?(\"a\") ?(\"abc\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(a OR  abc)", "(?(\"a\") ?(\"abc\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a OR abc ", "(?(\"a\") ?(\"abc\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(a OR abc )", "(?(\"a\") ?(\"abc\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(a OR  abc) ", "(?(\"a\") ?(\"abc\"))");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(  a OR abc)", "(?\"a\" ?\"abc\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(a  OR abc)", "(?\"a\" ?\"abc\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(a OR  abc)", "(?\"a\" ?\"abc\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a OR abc ", "(?\"a\" ?\"abc\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(a OR abc )", "(?\"a\" ?\"abc\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(a OR  abc) ", "(?\"a\" ?\"abc\")");
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_parse_query_to_ast() {
+    fn test_parse_query_single_term() {
         test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc", "\"abc\"");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a b", "(\"a\" \"b\")");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("+(a b)", "+((\"a\" \"b\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("+d", "+(\"d\")");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("+(a b) +d", "(+((\"a\" \"b\")) +(\"d\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(+a +b) d", "((+(\"a\") +(\"b\")) \"d\")");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(+a)", "+(\"a\")");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(+a +b)", "(+(\"a\") +(\"b\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc:toto", "abc:\"toto\"");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc:1.1", "abc:\"1.1\"");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("+abc:toto", "+(abc:\"toto\")");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(+abc:toto -titi)", "(+(abc:\"toto\") -(\"titi\"))");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("-abc:toto", "-(abc:\"toto\")");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc:a b", "(abc:\"a\" \"b\")");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc:\"a b\"", "abc:\"a b\"");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:[1 TO 5]", "foo:[\"1\" TO \"5\"]");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_query_default_clause() {
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a b", "(*\"a\" *\"b\")");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_query_must_default_clause() {
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("+(a b)", "(*\"a\" *\"b\")");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_query_must_single_term() {
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("+d", "\"d\"");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_single_term_with_field() {
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc:toto", "\"abc\":\"toto\"");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_single_term_with_float() {
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc:1.1", "\"abc\":\"1.1\"");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a.b.c:1.1", "\"a.b.c\":\"1.1\"");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("a\\ b\\ c:1.1", "\"a b c\":\"1.1\"");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_must_clause() {
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(+a +b)", "(+\"a\" +\"b\")");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_test_query_plus_a_b_plus_d() {
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("+(a b) +d", "(+(*\"a\" *\"b\") +\"d\")");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_test_query_other() {
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(+a +b) d", "(*(+\"a\" +\"b\") *\"d\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("+abc:toto", "\"abc\":\"toto\"");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("+a\\+b\\+c:toto", "\"a+b+c\":\"toto\"");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("(+abc:toto -titi)", "(+\"abc\":\"toto\" -\"titi\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("-abc:toto", "(-\"abc\":\"toto\")");
+        test_is_parse_err("--abc:toto");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc:a b", "(*\"abc\":\"a\" *\"b\")");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("abc:\"a b\"", "\"abc\":\"a b\"");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:[1 TO 5]", "\"foo\":[\"1\" TO \"5\"]");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_query_with_range() {
         test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("[1 TO 5]", "[\"1\" TO \"5\"]");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:{a TO z}", "foo:{\"a\" TO \"z\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:[1 TO toto}", "foo:[\"1\" TO \"toto\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:[* TO toto}", "foo:{\"*\" TO \"toto\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:[1 TO *}", "foo:[\"1\" TO \"*\"}");
-        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:[1.1 TO *}", "foo:[\"1.1\" TO \"*\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:{a TO z}", "\"foo\":{\"a\" TO \"z\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:[1 TO toto}", "\"foo\":[\"1\" TO \"toto\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:[* TO toto}", "\"foo\":{\"*\" TO \"toto\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper("foo:[1 TO *}", "\"foo\":[\"1\" TO \"*\"}");
+        test_parse_query_to_ast_helper(
+            "1.2.foo.bar:[1.1 TO *}",
+            "\"1.2.foo.bar\":[\"1.1\" TO \"*\"}",
+        );
         test_is_parse_err("abc +    ");
     }
 }

query-grammar/src/user_input_ast.rs

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ impl Debug for UserInputLeaf {
                 ref upper,
             } => {
                 if let Some(ref field) = field {
-                    write!(formatter, "{}:", field)?;
+                    write!(formatter, "\"{}\":", field)?;
                 }
                 lower.display_lower(formatter)?;
                 write!(formatter, " TO ")?;
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ pub struct UserInputLiteral {
 impl fmt::Debug for UserInputLiteral {
     fn fmt(&self, formatter: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), fmt::Error> {
         match self.field_name {
-            Some(ref field_name) => write!(formatter, "{}:\"{}\"", field_name, self.phrase),
+            Some(ref field_name) => write!(formatter, "\"{}\":\"{}\"", field_name, self.phrase),
             None => write!(formatter, "\"{}\"", self.phrase),
         }
     }
@@ -79,46 +79,46 @@ impl UserInputBound {
         match *self {
             UserInputBound::Inclusive(ref contents) => contents,
             UserInputBound::Exclusive(ref contents) => contents,
-            UserInputBound::Unbounded => &"*",
+            UserInputBound::Unbounded => "*",
         }
     }
 }
 
-pub enum UserInputAST {
-    Clause(Vec<UserInputAST>),
-    Unary(Occur, Box<UserInputAST>),
+pub enum UserInputAst {
+    Clause(Vec<(Option<Occur>, UserInputAst)>),
     Leaf(Box<UserInputLeaf>),
+    Boost(Box<UserInputAst>, f64),
 }
 
-impl UserInputAST {
-    pub fn unary(self, occur: Occur) -> UserInputAST {
-        UserInputAST::Unary(occur, Box::new(self))
+impl UserInputAst {
+    pub fn unary(self, occur: Occur) -> UserInputAst {
+        UserInputAst::Clause(vec![(Some(occur), self)])
     }
 
-    fn compose(occur: Occur, asts: Vec<UserInputAST>) -> UserInputAST {
+    fn compose(occur: Occur, asts: Vec<UserInputAst>) -> UserInputAst {
         assert_ne!(occur, Occur::MustNot);
         assert!(!asts.is_empty());
         if asts.len() == 1 {
             asts.into_iter().next().unwrap() //< safe
         } else {
-            UserInputAST::Clause(
+            UserInputAst::Clause(
                 asts.into_iter()
-                    .map(|ast: UserInputAST| ast.unary(occur))
+                    .map(|ast: UserInputAst| (Some(occur), ast))
                     .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
             )
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn empty_query() -> UserInputAST {
-        UserInputAST::Clause(Vec::default())
+    pub fn empty_query() -> UserInputAst {
+        UserInputAst::Clause(Vec::default())
     }
 
-    pub fn and(asts: Vec<UserInputAST>) -> UserInputAST {
-        UserInputAST::compose(Occur::Must, asts)
+    pub fn and(asts: Vec<UserInputAst>) -> UserInputAst {
+        UserInputAst::compose(Occur::Must, asts)
     }
 
-    pub fn or(asts: Vec<UserInputAST>) -> UserInputAST {
-        UserInputAST::compose(Occur::Should, asts)
+    pub fn or(asts: Vec<UserInputAst>) -> UserInputAst {
+        UserInputAst::compose(Occur::Should, asts)
     }
 }
 
@@ -128,32 +128,44 @@ impl From<UserInputLiteral> for UserInputLeaf {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<UserInputLeaf> for UserInputAST {
-    fn from(leaf: UserInputLeaf) -> UserInputAST {
-        UserInputAST::Leaf(Box::new(leaf))
+impl From<UserInputLeaf> for UserInputAst {
+    fn from(leaf: UserInputLeaf) -> UserInputAst {
+        UserInputAst::Leaf(Box::new(leaf))
     }
 }
 
-impl fmt::Debug for UserInputAST {
-    fn fmt(&self, formatter: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), fmt::Error> {
+fn print_occur_ast(
+    occur_opt: Option<Occur>,
+    ast: &UserInputAst,
+    formatter: &mut fmt::Formatter,
+) -> fmt::Result {
+    if let Some(occur) = occur_opt {
+        write!(formatter, "{}{:?}", occur, ast)?;
+    } else {
+        write!(formatter, "*{:?}", ast)?;
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+impl fmt::Debug for UserInputAst {
+    fn fmt(&self, formatter: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
         match *self {
-            UserInputAST::Clause(ref subqueries) => {
+            UserInputAst::Clause(ref subqueries) => {
                 if subqueries.is_empty() {
                     write!(formatter, "<emptyclause>")?;
                 } else {
                     write!(formatter, "(")?;
-                    write!(formatter, "{:?}", &subqueries[0])?;
+                    print_occur_ast(subqueries[0].0, &subqueries[0].1, formatter)?;
                     for subquery in &subqueries[1..] {
-                        write!(formatter, " {:?}", subquery)?;
+                        write!(formatter, " ")?;
+                        print_occur_ast(subquery.0, &subquery.1, formatter)?;
                     }
                     write!(formatter, ")")?;
                 }
                 Ok(())
             }
-            UserInputAST::Unary(ref occur, ref subquery) => {
-                write!(formatter, "{}({:?})", occur, subquery)
-            }
-            UserInputAST::Leaf(ref subquery) => write!(formatter, "{:?}", subquery),
+            UserInputAst::Leaf(ref subquery) => write!(formatter, "{:?}", subquery),
+            UserInputAst::Boost(ref leaf, boost) => write!(formatter, "({:?})^{}", leaf, boost),
         }
     }
 }

src/collector/count_collector.rs

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 use super::Collector;
 use crate::collector::SegmentCollector;
 use crate::DocId;
-use crate::Result;
 use crate::Score;
-use crate::SegmentLocalId;
+use crate::SegmentOrdinal;
 use crate::SegmentReader;
 
 /// `CountCollector` collector only counts how many
@@ -44,7 +43,11 @@ impl Collector for Count {
 
     type Child = SegmentCountCollector;
 
-    fn for_segment(&self, _: SegmentLocalId, _: &SegmentReader) -> Result<SegmentCountCollector> {
+    fn for_segment(
+        &self,
+        _: SegmentOrdinal,
+        _: &SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<SegmentCountCollector> {
         Ok(SegmentCountCollector::default())
     }
 
@@ -52,7 +55,7 @@ impl Collector for Count {
         false
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, segment_counts: Vec<usize>) -> Result<usize> {
+    fn merge_fruits(&self, segment_counts: Vec<usize>) -> crate::Result<usize> {
         Ok(segment_counts.into_iter().sum())
     }
 }
@@ -93,18 +96,18 @@ mod tests {
         }
         {
             let mut count_collector = SegmentCountCollector::default();
-            count_collector.collect(0u32, 1f32);
+            count_collector.collect(0u32, 1.0);
             assert_eq!(count_collector.harvest(), 1);
         }
         {
             let mut count_collector = SegmentCountCollector::default();
-            count_collector.collect(0u32, 1f32);
+            count_collector.collect(0u32, 1.0);
             assert_eq!(count_collector.harvest(), 1);
         }
         {
             let mut count_collector = SegmentCountCollector::default();
-            count_collector.collect(0u32, 1f32);
-            count_collector.collect(1u32, 1f32);
+            count_collector.collect(0u32, 1.0);
+            count_collector.collect(1u32, 1.0);
             assert_eq!(count_collector.harvest(), 2);
         }
     }

src/collector/custom_score_top_collector.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 use crate::collector::top_collector::{TopCollector, TopSegmentCollector};
 use crate::collector::{Collector, SegmentCollector};
-use crate::Result;
 use crate::{DocAddress, DocId, Score, SegmentReader};
 
 pub(crate) struct CustomScoreTopCollector<TCustomScorer, TScore = Score> {
@@ -12,13 +11,13 @@ impl<TCustomScorer, TScore> CustomScoreTopCollector<TCustomScorer, TScore>
 where
     TScore: Clone + PartialOrd,
 {
-    pub fn new(
+    pub(crate) fn new(
         custom_scorer: TCustomScorer,
-        limit: usize,
+        collector: TopCollector<TScore>,
     ) -> CustomScoreTopCollector<TCustomScorer, TScore> {
         CustomScoreTopCollector {
             custom_scorer,
-            collector: TopCollector::with_limit(limit),
+            collector,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ where
 /// It is the segment local version of the [`CustomScorer`](./trait.CustomScorer.html).
 pub trait CustomSegmentScorer<TScore>: 'static {
     /// Computes the score of a specific `doc`.
-    fn score(&self, doc: DocId) -> TScore;
+    fn score(&mut self, doc: DocId) -> TScore;
 }
 
 /// `CustomScorer` makes it possible to define any kind of score.
@@ -42,12 +41,12 @@ pub trait CustomScorer<TScore>: Sync {
     type Child: CustomSegmentScorer<TScore>;
     /// Builds a child scorer for a specific segment. The child scorer is associated to
     /// a specific segment.
-    fn segment_scorer(&self, segment_reader: &SegmentReader) -> Result<Self::Child>;
+    fn segment_scorer(&self, segment_reader: &SegmentReader) -> crate::Result<Self::Child>;
 }
 
 impl<TCustomScorer, TScore> Collector for CustomScoreTopCollector<TCustomScorer, TScore>
 where
-    TCustomScorer: CustomScorer<TScore>,
+    TCustomScorer: CustomScorer<TScore> + Send + Sync,
     TScore: 'static + PartialOrd + Clone + Send + Sync,
 {
     type Fruit = Vec<(TScore, DocAddress)>;
@@ -58,11 +57,9 @@ where
         &self,
         segment_local_id: u32,
         segment_reader: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<Self::Child> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
+        let segment_collector = self.collector.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment_reader);
         let segment_scorer = self.custom_scorer.segment_scorer(segment_reader)?;
-        let segment_collector = self
-            .collector
-            .for_segment(segment_local_id, segment_reader)?;
         Ok(CustomScoreTopSegmentCollector {
             segment_collector,
             segment_scorer,
@@ -73,7 +70,7 @@ where
         false
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, segment_fruits: Vec<Self::Fruit>) -> Result<Self::Fruit> {
+    fn merge_fruits(&self, segment_fruits: Vec<Self::Fruit>) -> crate::Result<Self::Fruit> {
         self.collector.merge_fruits(segment_fruits)
     }
 }
@@ -111,16 +108,16 @@ where
 {
     type Child = T;
 
-    fn segment_scorer(&self, segment_reader: &SegmentReader) -> Result<Self::Child> {
+    fn segment_scorer(&self, segment_reader: &SegmentReader) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
         Ok((self)(segment_reader))
     }
 }
 
 impl<F, TScore> CustomSegmentScorer<TScore> for F
 where
-    F: 'static + Sync + Send + Fn(DocId) -> TScore,
+    F: 'static + FnMut(DocId) -> TScore,
 {
-    fn score(&self, doc: DocId) -> TScore {
+    fn score(&mut self, doc: DocId) -> TScore {
         (self)(doc)
     }
 }

src/collector/docset_collector.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+
+use crate::{DocAddress, DocId, Score};
+
+use super::{Collector, SegmentCollector};
+
+/// Collectors that returns the set of DocAddress that matches the query.
+///
+/// This collector is mostly useful for tests.
+pub struct DocSetCollector;
+
+impl Collector for DocSetCollector {
+    type Fruit = HashSet<DocAddress>;
+    type Child = DocSetChildCollector;
+
+    fn for_segment(
+        &self,
+        segment_local_id: crate::SegmentOrdinal,
+        _segment: &crate::SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
+        Ok(DocSetChildCollector {
+            segment_local_id,
+            docs: HashSet::new(),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn requires_scoring(&self) -> bool {
+        false
+    }
+
+    fn merge_fruits(
+        &self,
+        segment_fruits: Vec<(u32, HashSet<DocId>)>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Fruit> {
+        let len: usize = segment_fruits.iter().map(|(_, docset)| docset.len()).sum();
+        let mut result = HashSet::with_capacity(len);
+        for (segment_local_id, docs) in segment_fruits {
+            for doc in docs {
+                result.insert(DocAddress::new(segment_local_id, doc));
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(result)
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct DocSetChildCollector {
+    segment_local_id: u32,
+    docs: HashSet<DocId>,
+}
+
+impl SegmentCollector for DocSetChildCollector {
+    type Fruit = (u32, HashSet<DocId>);
+
+    fn collect(&mut self, doc: crate::DocId, _score: Score) {
+        self.docs.insert(doc);
+    }
+
+    fn harvest(self) -> (u32, HashSet<DocId>) {
+        (self.segment_local_id, self.docs)
+    }
+}

src/collector/facet_collector.rs

@@ -1,22 +1,19 @@
 use crate::collector::Collector;
 use crate::collector::SegmentCollector;
-use crate::docset::SkipResult;
 use crate::fastfield::FacetReader;
 use crate::schema::Facet;
 use crate::schema::Field;
 use crate::DocId;
-use crate::Result;
 use crate::Score;
-use crate::SegmentLocalId;
+use crate::SegmentOrdinal;
 use crate::SegmentReader;
-use crate::TantivyError;
 use std::cmp::Ordering;
 use std::collections::btree_map;
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 use std::collections::BTreeSet;
 use std::collections::BinaryHeap;
-use std::collections::Bound;
 use std::iter::Peekable;
+use std::ops::Bound;
 use std::{u64, usize};
 
 struct Hit<'a> {
@@ -40,7 +37,10 @@ impl<'a> PartialOrd<Hit<'a>> for Hit<'a> {
 
 impl<'a> Ord for Hit<'a> {
     fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Ordering {
-        other.count.cmp(&self.count)
+        other
+            .count
+            .cmp(&self.count)
+            .then(self.facet.cmp(other.facet))
     }
 }
 
@@ -83,16 +83,16 @@ fn facet_depth(facet_bytes: &[u8]) -> usize {
 /// ```rust
 /// use tantivy::collector::FacetCollector;
 /// use tantivy::query::AllQuery;
-/// use tantivy::schema::{Facet, Schema, TEXT};
-/// use tantivy::{doc, Index, Result};
+/// use tantivy::schema::{Facet, Schema, INDEXED, TEXT};
+/// use tantivy::{doc, Index};
 ///
-/// fn example() -> Result<()> {
+/// fn example() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
 ///     let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
 ///
 ///     // Facet have their own specific type.
 ///     // It is not a bad practise to put all of your
 ///     // facet information in the same field.
-///     let facet = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet");
+///     let facet = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", INDEXED);
 ///     let title = schema_builder.add_text_field("title", TEXT);
 ///     let schema = schema_builder.build();
 ///     let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
@@ -189,6 +189,11 @@ pub struct FacetSegmentCollector {
     collapse_facet_ords: Vec<u64>,
 }
 
+enum SkipResult {
+    Found,
+    NotFound,
+}
+
 fn skip<'a, I: Iterator<Item = &'a Facet>>(
     target: &[u8],
     collapse_it: &mut Peekable<I>,
@@ -198,14 +203,14 @@ fn skip<'a, I: Iterator<Item = &'a Facet>>(
             Some(facet_bytes) => match facet_bytes.encoded_str().as_bytes().cmp(target) {
                 Ordering::Less => {}
                 Ordering::Greater => {
-                    return SkipResult::OverStep;
+                    return SkipResult::NotFound;
                 }
                 Ordering::Equal => {
-                    return SkipResult::Reached;
+                    return SkipResult::Found;
                 }
             },
             None => {
-                return SkipResult::End;
+                return SkipResult::NotFound;
             }
         }
         collapse_it.next();
@@ -260,13 +265,10 @@ impl Collector for FacetCollector {
 
     fn for_segment(
         &self,
-        _: SegmentLocalId,
+        _: SegmentOrdinal,
         reader: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<FacetSegmentCollector> {
-        let field_name = reader.schema().get_field_name(self.field);
-        let facet_reader = reader.facet_reader(self.field).ok_or_else(|| {
-            TantivyError::SchemaError(format!("Field {:?} is not a facet field.", field_name))
-        })?;
+    ) -> crate::Result<FacetSegmentCollector> {
+        let facet_reader = reader.facet_reader(self.field)?;
 
         let mut collapse_mapping = Vec::new();
         let mut counts = Vec::new();
@@ -275,14 +277,14 @@ impl Collector for FacetCollector {
         let mut collapse_facet_it = self.facets.iter().peekable();
         collapse_facet_ords.push(0);
         {
-            let mut facet_streamer = facet_reader.facet_dict().range().into_stream();
+            let mut facet_streamer = facet_reader.facet_dict().range().into_stream()?;
             if facet_streamer.advance() {
                 'outer: loop {
                     // at the begining of this loop, facet_streamer
                     // is positionned on a term that has not been processed yet.
                     let skip_result = skip(facet_streamer.key(), &mut collapse_facet_it);
                     match skip_result {
-                        SkipResult::Reached => {
+                        SkipResult::Found => {
                             // we reach a facet we decided to collapse.
                             let collapse_depth = facet_depth(facet_streamer.key());
                             let mut collapsed_id = 0;
@@ -295,14 +297,12 @@ impl Collector for FacetCollector {
                                 if depth == collapse_depth + 1 {
                                     collapsed_id = collapse_facet_ords.len();
                                     collapse_facet_ords.push(facet_streamer.term_ord());
-                                    collapse_mapping.push(collapsed_id);
-                                } else {
-                                    collapse_mapping.push(collapsed_id);
                                 }
+                                collapse_mapping.push(collapsed_id);
                             }
                             break;
                         }
-                        SkipResult::End | SkipResult::OverStep => {
+                        SkipResult::NotFound => {
                             collapse_mapping.push(0);
                             if !facet_streamer.advance() {
                                 break;
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ impl Collector for FacetCollector {
         false
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, segments_facet_counts: Vec<FacetCounts>) -> Result<FacetCounts> {
+    fn merge_fruits(&self, segments_facet_counts: Vec<FacetCounts>) -> crate::Result<FacetCounts> {
         let mut facet_counts: BTreeMap<Facet, u64> = BTreeMap::new();
         for segment_facet_counts in segments_facet_counts {
             for (facet, count) in segment_facet_counts.facet_counts {
@@ -369,9 +369,12 @@ impl SegmentCollector for FacetSegmentCollector {
             }
             let mut facet = vec![];
             let facet_ord = self.collapse_facet_ords[collapsed_facet_ord];
-            facet_dict.ord_to_term(facet_ord as u64, &mut facet);
-            // TODO
-            facet_counts.insert(Facet::from_encoded(facet).unwrap(), count);
+            // TODO handle errors.
+            if facet_dict.ord_to_term(facet_ord as u64, &mut facet).is_ok() {
+                if let Ok(facet) = Facet::from_encoded(facet) {
+                    facet_counts.insert(facet, count);
+                }
+            }
         }
         FacetCounts { facet_counts }
     }
@@ -396,6 +399,8 @@ impl<'a> Iterator for FacetChildIterator<'a> {
 }
 
 impl FacetCounts {
+    /// Returns an iterator over all of the facet count pairs inside this result.
+    /// See the documentation for `FacetCollector` for a usage example.
     pub fn get<T>(&self, facet_from: T) -> FacetChildIterator<'_>
     where
         Facet: From<T>,
@@ -415,6 +420,8 @@ impl FacetCounts {
         FacetChildIterator { underlying }
     }
 
+    /// Returns a vector of top `k` facets with their counts, sorted highest-to-lowest by counts.
+    /// See the documentation for `FacetCollector` for a usage example.
     pub fn top_k<T>(&self, facet: T, k: usize) -> Vec<(&Facet, u64)>
     where
         Facet: From<T>,
@@ -455,7 +462,7 @@ mod tests {
     use crate::collector::Count;
     use crate::core::Index;
     use crate::query::{AllQuery, QueryParser, TermQuery};
-    use crate::schema::{Document, Facet, Field, IndexRecordOption, Schema};
+    use crate::schema::{Document, Facet, Field, IndexRecordOption, Schema, INDEXED};
     use crate::Term;
     use rand::distributions::Uniform;
     use rand::prelude::SliceRandom;
@@ -465,11 +472,11 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn test_facet_collector_drilldown() {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
-        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet");
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", INDEXED);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
 
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         let num_facets: usize = 3 * 4 * 5;
         let facets: Vec<Facet> = (0..num_facets)
             .map(|mut n| {
@@ -525,15 +532,15 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn test_doc_unsorted_multifacet() {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
-        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facets");
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facets", INDEXED);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(
-            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/subjects/A/a"),
-            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/subjects/B/a"),
-            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/subjects/A/b"),
-            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/subjects/B/b"),
+            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/subjects/A/a").unwrap(),
+            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/subjects/B/a").unwrap(),
+            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/subjects/A/b").unwrap(),
+            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/subjects/B/b").unwrap(),
         ));
         index_writer.commit().unwrap();
         let reader = index.reader().unwrap();
@@ -547,31 +554,31 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_doc_search_by_facet() {
+    fn test_doc_search_by_facet() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
-        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet");
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", INDEXED);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(
-            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/A/A"),
+            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/A/A").unwrap(),
         ));
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(
-            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/A/B"),
+            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/A/B").unwrap(),
         ));
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(
-            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/A/C/A"),
+            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/A/C/A").unwrap(),
         ));
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(
-            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/D/C/A"),
+            facet_field => Facet::from_text(&"/D/C/A").unwrap(),
         ));
-        index_writer.commit().unwrap();
-        let reader = index.reader().unwrap();
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let reader = index.reader()?;
         let searcher = reader.searcher();
         assert_eq!(searcher.num_docs(), 4);
 
         let count_facet = |facet_str: &str| {
-            let term = Term::from_facet(facet_field, &Facet::from_text(facet_str));
+            let term = Term::from_facet(facet_field, &Facet::from_text(facet_str).unwrap());
             searcher
                 .search(&TermQuery::new(term, IndexRecordOption::Basic), &Count)
                 .unwrap()
@@ -583,17 +590,17 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(count_facet("/A/C"), 1);
         assert_eq!(count_facet("/A/C/A"), 1);
         assert_eq!(count_facet("/C/A"), 0);
+
+        let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![]);
         {
-            let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![]);
-            {
-                let query = query_parser.parse_query("facet:/A/B").unwrap();
-                assert_eq!(1, searcher.search(&query, &Count).unwrap());
-            }
-            {
-                let query = query_parser.parse_query("facet:/A").unwrap();
-                assert_eq!(3, searcher.search(&query, &Count).unwrap());
-            }
+            let query = query_parser.parse_query("facet:/A/B")?;
+            assert_eq!(1, searcher.search(&query, &Count).unwrap());
         }
+        {
+            let query = query_parser.parse_query("facet:/A")?;
+            assert_eq!(3, searcher.search(&query, &Count)?);
+        }
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -606,7 +613,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn test_facet_collector_topk() {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
-        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet");
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", INDEXED);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
 
@@ -628,7 +635,7 @@ mod tests {
             .collect();
         docs[..].shuffle(&mut thread_rng());
 
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         for doc in docs {
             index_writer.add_document(doc);
         }
@@ -651,6 +658,41 @@ mod tests {
             );
         }
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_facet_collector_topk_tie_break() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", INDEXED);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+
+        let docs: Vec<Document> = vec![("b", 2), ("a", 2), ("c", 4)]
+            .into_iter()
+            .flat_map(|(c, count)| {
+                let facet = Facet::from(&format!("/facet/{}", c));
+                let doc = doc!(facet_field => facet);
+                iter::repeat(doc).take(count)
+            })
+            .collect();
+
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        for doc in docs {
+            index_writer.add_document(doc);
+        }
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let mut facet_collector = FacetCollector::for_field(facet_field);
+        facet_collector.add_facet("/facet");
+        let counts: FacetCounts = searcher.search(&AllQuery, &facet_collector)?;
+
+        let facets: Vec<(&Facet, u64)> = counts.top_k("/facet", 2);
+        assert_eq!(
+            facets,
+            vec![(&Facet::from("/facet/c"), 4), (&Facet::from("/facet/a"), 2)]
+        );
+        Ok(())
+    }
 }
 
 #[cfg(all(test, feature = "unstable"))]
@@ -658,7 +700,7 @@ mod bench {
 
     use crate::collector::FacetCollector;
     use crate::query::AllQuery;
-    use crate::schema::{Facet, Schema};
+    use crate::schema::{Facet, Schema, INDEXED};
     use crate::Index;
     use rand::seq::SliceRandom;
     use rand::thread_rng;
@@ -667,7 +709,7 @@ mod bench {
     #[bench]
     fn bench_facet_collector(b: &mut Bencher) {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
-        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet");
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", INDEXED);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
 
@@ -681,7 +723,7 @@ mod bench {
         // 40425 docs
         docs[..].shuffle(&mut thread_rng());
 
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         for doc in docs {
             index_writer.add_document(doc);
         }

src/collector/filter_collector_wrapper.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+// # Custom collector example
+//
+// This example shows how you can implement your own
+// collector. As an example, we will compute a collector
+// that computes the standard deviation of a given fast field.
+//
+// Of course, you can have a look at the tantivy's built-in collectors
+// such as the `CountCollector` for more examples.
+
+// ---
+// Importing tantivy...
+use std::marker::PhantomData;
+
+use crate::collector::{Collector, SegmentCollector};
+use crate::fastfield::{DynamicFastFieldReader, FastFieldReader, FastValue};
+use crate::schema::Field;
+use crate::{Score, SegmentReader, TantivyError};
+
+/// The `FilterCollector` collector filters docs using a fast field value and a predicate.
+/// Only the documents for which the predicate returned "true" will be passed on to the next collector.
+///
+/// ```rust
+/// use tantivy::collector::{TopDocs, FilterCollector};
+/// use tantivy::query::QueryParser;
+/// use tantivy::schema::{Schema, TEXT, INDEXED, FAST};
+/// use tantivy::{doc, DocAddress, Index};
+///
+/// let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+/// let title = schema_builder.add_text_field("title", TEXT);
+/// let price = schema_builder.add_u64_field("price", INDEXED | FAST);
+/// let schema = schema_builder.build();
+/// let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+///
+/// let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000).unwrap();
+/// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Name of the Wind", price => 30_200u64));
+/// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of Muadib", price => 29_240u64));
+/// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "A Dairy Cow", price => 21_240u64));
+/// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of a Young Girl", price => 20_120u64));
+/// assert!(index_writer.commit().is_ok());
+///
+/// let reader = index.reader().unwrap();
+/// let searcher = reader.searcher();
+///
+/// let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![title]);
+/// let query = query_parser.parse_query("diary").unwrap();
+/// let no_filter_collector = FilterCollector::new(price, &|value: u64| value > 20_120u64, TopDocs::with_limit(2));
+/// let top_docs = searcher.search(&query, &no_filter_collector).unwrap();
+///
+/// assert_eq!(top_docs.len(), 1);
+/// assert_eq!(top_docs[0].1, DocAddress::new(0, 1));
+///
+/// let filter_all_collector: FilterCollector<_, _, u64> = FilterCollector::new(price, &|value| value < 5u64, TopDocs::with_limit(2));
+/// let filtered_top_docs = searcher.search(&query, &filter_all_collector).unwrap();
+///
+/// assert_eq!(filtered_top_docs.len(), 0);
+/// ```
+pub struct FilterCollector<TCollector, TPredicate, TPredicateValue: FastValue>
+where
+    TPredicate: 'static + Clone,
+{
+    field: Field,
+    collector: TCollector,
+    predicate: TPredicate,
+    t_predicate_value: PhantomData<TPredicateValue>,
+}
+
+impl<TCollector, TPredicate, TPredicateValue: FastValue>
+    FilterCollector<TCollector, TPredicate, TPredicateValue>
+where
+    TCollector: Collector + Send + Sync,
+    TPredicate: Fn(TPredicateValue) -> bool + Send + Sync + Clone,
+{
+    /// Create a new FilterCollector.
+    pub fn new(
+        field: Field,
+        predicate: TPredicate,
+        collector: TCollector,
+    ) -> FilterCollector<TCollector, TPredicate, TPredicateValue> {
+        FilterCollector {
+            field,
+            predicate,
+            collector,
+            t_predicate_value: PhantomData,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<TCollector, TPredicate, TPredicateValue: FastValue> Collector
+    for FilterCollector<TCollector, TPredicate, TPredicateValue>
+where
+    TCollector: Collector + Send + Sync,
+    TPredicate: 'static + Fn(TPredicateValue) -> bool + Send + Sync + Clone,
+    TPredicateValue: FastValue,
+{
+    // That's the type of our result.
+    // Our standard deviation will be a float.
+    type Fruit = TCollector::Fruit;
+
+    type Child = FilterSegmentCollector<TCollector::Child, TPredicate, TPredicateValue>;
+
+    fn for_segment(
+        &self,
+        segment_local_id: u32,
+        segment_reader: &SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<FilterSegmentCollector<TCollector::Child, TPredicate, TPredicateValue>> {
+        let schema = segment_reader.schema();
+        let field_entry = schema.get_field_entry(self.field);
+        if !field_entry.is_fast() {
+            return Err(TantivyError::SchemaError(format!(
+                "Field {:?} is not a fast field.",
+                field_entry.name()
+            )));
+        }
+        let requested_type = TPredicateValue::to_type();
+        let field_schema_type = field_entry.field_type().value_type();
+        if requested_type != field_schema_type {
+            return Err(TantivyError::SchemaError(format!(
+                "Field {:?} is of type {:?}!={:?}",
+                field_entry.name(),
+                requested_type,
+                field_schema_type
+            )));
+        }
+
+        let fast_field_reader = segment_reader
+            .fast_fields()
+            .typed_fast_field_reader(self.field)?;
+
+        let segment_collector = self
+            .collector
+            .for_segment(segment_local_id, segment_reader)?;
+
+        Ok(FilterSegmentCollector {
+            fast_field_reader,
+            segment_collector,
+            predicate: self.predicate.clone(),
+            t_predicate_value: PhantomData,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn requires_scoring(&self) -> bool {
+        self.collector.requires_scoring()
+    }
+
+    fn merge_fruits(
+        &self,
+        segment_fruits: Vec<<TCollector::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<TCollector::Fruit> {
+        self.collector.merge_fruits(segment_fruits)
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct FilterSegmentCollector<TSegmentCollector, TPredicate, TPredicateValue>
+where
+    TPredicate: 'static,
+    TPredicateValue: FastValue,
+{
+    fast_field_reader: DynamicFastFieldReader<TPredicateValue>,
+    segment_collector: TSegmentCollector,
+    predicate: TPredicate,
+    t_predicate_value: PhantomData<TPredicateValue>,
+}
+
+impl<TSegmentCollector, TPredicate, TPredicateValue> SegmentCollector
+    for FilterSegmentCollector<TSegmentCollector, TPredicate, TPredicateValue>
+where
+    TSegmentCollector: SegmentCollector,
+    TPredicate: 'static + Fn(TPredicateValue) -> bool + Send + Sync,
+    TPredicateValue: FastValue,
+{
+    type Fruit = TSegmentCollector::Fruit;
+
+    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, score: Score) {
+        let value = self.fast_field_reader.get(doc);
+        if (self.predicate)(value) {
+            self.segment_collector.collect(doc, score)
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn harvest(self) -> <TSegmentCollector as SegmentCollector>::Fruit {
+        self.segment_collector.harvest()
+    }
+}

src/collector/histogram_collector.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,291 @@
+use crate::collector::{Collector, SegmentCollector};
+use crate::fastfield::{DynamicFastFieldReader, FastFieldReader, FastValue};
+use crate::schema::{Field, Type};
+use crate::{DocId, Score};
+use fastdivide::DividerU64;
+
+/// Histogram builds an histogram of the values of a fastfield for the
+/// collected DocSet.
+///
+/// At construction, it is given parameters that define a partition of an interval
+/// [min_val, max_val) into N buckets with the same width.
+/// The ith bucket is then defined by `[min_val + i * bucket_width, min_val + (i+1) * bucket_width)`
+///
+/// An histogram is then defined as a `Vec<u64>` of length `num_buckets`, that contains a count of
+/// documents for each value bucket.
+///
+/// See also [`HistogramCollector::new()`].
+///
+/// # Warning
+///
+/// f64 field. are not supported.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct HistogramCollector {
+    min_value: u64,
+    num_buckets: usize,
+    divider: DividerU64,
+    field: Field,
+}
+
+impl HistogramCollector {
+    /// Builds a new HistogramCollector.
+    ///
+    /// The scale/range of the histogram is not dynamic. It is required to
+    /// define it by supplying following parameter:
+    ///  - `min_value`: the minimum value that can be recorded in the histogram.
+    ///  - `bucket_width`: the length of the interval that is associated to each buckets.
+    ///  - `num_buckets`: The overall number of buckets.
+    ///
+    /// Together, this parameters define a partition of `[min_value, min_value + num_buckets * bucket_width)`
+    /// into `num_buckets` intervals of width bucket that we call `bucket`.
+    ///
+    /// # Disclaimer
+    /// This function panics if the field given is of type f64.
+    pub fn new<TFastValue: FastValue>(
+        field: Field,
+        min_value: TFastValue,
+        bucket_width: u64,
+        num_buckets: usize,
+    ) -> HistogramCollector {
+        let fast_type = TFastValue::to_type();
+        assert!(fast_type == Type::U64 || fast_type == Type::I64 || fast_type == Type::Date);
+        HistogramCollector {
+            min_value: min_value.to_u64(),
+            num_buckets,
+            field,
+            divider: DividerU64::divide_by(bucket_width),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+struct HistogramComputer {
+    counts: Vec<u64>,
+    min_value: u64,
+    divider: DividerU64,
+}
+
+impl HistogramComputer {
+    #[inline]
+    pub(crate) fn add_value(&mut self, value: u64) {
+        if value < self.min_value {
+            return;
+        }
+        let delta = value - self.min_value;
+        let delta_u64 = delta.to_u64();
+        let bucket_id: usize = self.divider.divide(delta_u64) as usize;
+        if bucket_id < self.counts.len() {
+            self.counts[bucket_id] += 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn harvest(self) -> Vec<u64> {
+        self.counts
+    }
+}
+pub struct SegmentHistogramCollector {
+    histogram_computer: HistogramComputer,
+    ff_reader: DynamicFastFieldReader<u64>,
+}
+
+impl SegmentCollector for SegmentHistogramCollector {
+    type Fruit = Vec<u64>;
+
+    fn collect(&mut self, doc: DocId, _score: Score) {
+        let value = self.ff_reader.get(doc);
+        self.histogram_computer.add_value(value);
+    }
+
+    fn harvest(self) -> Self::Fruit {
+        self.histogram_computer.harvest()
+    }
+}
+
+impl Collector for HistogramCollector {
+    type Fruit = Vec<u64>;
+    type Child = SegmentHistogramCollector;
+
+    fn for_segment(
+        &self,
+        _segment_local_id: crate::SegmentOrdinal,
+        segment: &crate::SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
+        let ff_reader = segment.fast_fields().u64_lenient(self.field)?;
+        Ok(SegmentHistogramCollector {
+            histogram_computer: HistogramComputer {
+                counts: vec![0; self.num_buckets],
+                min_value: self.min_value,
+                divider: self.divider,
+            },
+            ff_reader,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn requires_scoring(&self) -> bool {
+        false
+    }
+
+    fn merge_fruits(&self, child_histograms: Vec<Vec<u64>>) -> crate::Result<Vec<u64>> {
+        Ok(add_vecs(child_histograms, self.num_buckets))
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn add_arrays_into(acc: &mut [u64], add: &[u64]) {
+    assert_eq!(acc.len(), add.len());
+    for (dest_bucket, bucket_count) in acc.iter_mut().zip(add) {
+        *dest_bucket += bucket_count;
+    }
+}
+
+fn add_vecs(mut vals_list: Vec<Vec<u64>>, len: usize) -> Vec<u64> {
+    let mut acc = vals_list.pop().unwrap_or_else(|| vec![0u64; len]);
+    assert_eq!(acc.len(), len);
+    for vals in vals_list {
+        add_arrays_into(&mut acc, &vals);
+    }
+    acc
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::{add_vecs, HistogramCollector, HistogramComputer};
+    use crate::chrono::{TimeZone, Utc};
+    use crate::schema::{Schema, FAST};
+    use crate::{doc, query, Index};
+    use fastdivide::DividerU64;
+    use query::AllQuery;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_add_histograms_simple() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            add_vecs(vec![vec![1, 0, 3], vec![11, 2, 3], vec![0, 0, 1]], 3),
+            vec![12, 2, 7]
+        )
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_add_histograms_empty() {
+        assert_eq!(add_vecs(vec![], 3), vec![0, 0, 0])
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_histogram_builder_simple() {
+        // [1..3)
+        // [3..5)
+        // ..
+        // [9..11)
+        let mut histogram_computer = HistogramComputer {
+            counts: vec![0; 5],
+            min_value: 1,
+            divider: DividerU64::divide_by(2),
+        };
+        histogram_computer.add_value(1);
+        histogram_computer.add_value(7);
+        assert_eq!(histogram_computer.harvest(), vec![1, 0, 0, 1, 0]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_histogram_too_low_is_ignored() {
+        let mut histogram_computer = HistogramComputer {
+            counts: vec![0; 5],
+            min_value: 2,
+            divider: DividerU64::divide_by(2),
+        };
+        histogram_computer.add_value(0);
+        assert_eq!(histogram_computer.harvest(), vec![0, 0, 0, 0, 0]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_histogram_too_high_is_ignored() {
+        let mut histogram_computer = HistogramComputer {
+            counts: vec![0u64; 5],
+            min_value: 0,
+            divider: DividerU64::divide_by(2),
+        };
+        histogram_computer.add_value(10);
+        assert_eq!(histogram_computer.harvest(), vec![0, 0, 0, 0, 0]);
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_no_segments() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let val_field = schema_builder.add_u64_field("val_field", FAST);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let reader = index.reader()?;
+        let searcher = reader.searcher();
+        let all_query = AllQuery;
+        let histogram_collector = HistogramCollector::new(val_field, 0u64, 2, 5);
+        let histogram = searcher.search(&all_query, &histogram_collector)?;
+        assert_eq!(histogram, vec![0; 5]);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_histogram_i64() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let val_field = schema_builder.add_i64_field("val_field", FAST);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 4_000_000)?;
+        writer.add_document(doc!(val_field=>12i64));
+        writer.add_document(doc!(val_field=>-30i64));
+        writer.add_document(doc!(val_field=>-12i64));
+        writer.add_document(doc!(val_field=>-10i64));
+        writer.commit()?;
+        let reader = index.reader()?;
+        let searcher = reader.searcher();
+        let all_query = AllQuery;
+        let histogram_collector = HistogramCollector::new(val_field, -20i64, 10u64, 4);
+        let histogram = searcher.search(&all_query, &histogram_collector)?;
+        assert_eq!(histogram, vec![1, 1, 0, 1]);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_histogram_merge() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let val_field = schema_builder.add_i64_field("val_field", FAST);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 4_000_000)?;
+        writer.add_document(doc!(val_field=>12i64));
+        writer.commit()?;
+        writer.add_document(doc!(val_field=>-30i64));
+        writer.commit()?;
+        writer.add_document(doc!(val_field=>-12i64));
+        writer.commit()?;
+        writer.add_document(doc!(val_field=>-10i64));
+        writer.commit()?;
+        let reader = index.reader()?;
+        let searcher = reader.searcher();
+        let all_query = AllQuery;
+        let histogram_collector = HistogramCollector::new(val_field, -20i64, 10u64, 4);
+        let histogram = searcher.search(&all_query, &histogram_collector)?;
+        assert_eq!(histogram, vec![1, 1, 0, 1]);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_histogram_dates() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let date_field = schema_builder.add_date_field("date_field", FAST);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 4_000_000)?;
+        writer.add_document(doc!(date_field=>Utc.ymd(1982, 9, 17).and_hms(0, 0,0)));
+        writer.add_document(doc!(date_field=>Utc.ymd(1986, 3, 9).and_hms(0, 0, 0)));
+        writer.add_document(doc!(date_field=>Utc.ymd(1983, 9, 27).and_hms(0, 0, 0)));
+        writer.commit()?;
+        let reader = index.reader()?;
+        let searcher = reader.searcher();
+        let all_query = AllQuery;
+        let week_histogram_collector = HistogramCollector::new(
+            date_field,
+            Utc.ymd(1980, 1, 1).and_hms(0, 0, 0),
+            3600 * 24 * 365, // it is just for a unit test... sorry leap years.
+            10,
+        );
+        let week_histogram = searcher.search(&all_query, &week_histogram_collector)?;
+        assert_eq!(week_histogram, vec![0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0]);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}

src/collector/int_facet_collector.rs

@@ -1,127 +0,0 @@
-use std::cmp::Eq;
-use std::collections::HashMap;
-use std::hash::Hash;
-
-use collector::Collector;
-use fastfield::FastFieldReader;
-use schema::Field;
-
-use DocId;
-use Result;
-use Score;
-use SegmentReader;
-use SegmentLocalId;
-
-
-/// Facet collector  for i64/u64 fast field
-pub struct IntFacetCollector<T>
-where
-    T: FastFieldReader,
-    T::ValueType: Eq + Hash,
-{
-    counters: HashMap<T::ValueType, u64>,
-    field: Field,
-    ff_reader: Option<T>,
-}
-
-
-impl<T> IntFacetCollector<T>
-where
-    T: FastFieldReader,
-    T::ValueType: Eq + Hash,
-{
-    /// Creates a new facet collector for aggregating a given field.
-    pub fn new(field: Field) -> IntFacetCollector<T> {
-        IntFacetCollector {
-            counters: HashMap::new(),
-            field: field,
-            ff_reader: None,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-
-impl<T> Collector for IntFacetCollector<T>
-where
-    T: FastFieldReader,
-    T::ValueType: Eq + Hash,
-{
-    fn set_segment(&mut self, _: SegmentLocalId, reader: &SegmentReader) -> Result<()> {
-        self.ff_reader = Some(reader.get_fast_field_reader(self.field)?);
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    fn collect(&mut self, doc: DocId, _: Score) {
-        let val = self.ff_reader
-            .as_ref()
-            .expect(
-                "collect() was called before set_segment. \
-                This should never happen.",
-            )
-            .get(doc);
-        *(self.counters.entry(val).or_insert(0)) += 1;
-    }
-}
-
-
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-mod tests {
-
-    use collector::{chain, IntFacetCollector};
-    use query::QueryParser;
-    use fastfield::{I64FastFieldReader, U64FastFieldReader};
-    use schema::{self, FAST, STRING};
-    use Index;
-
-    #[test]
-    // create 10 documents, set num field value to 0 or 1 for even/odd ones
-    // make sure we have facet counters correctly filled
-    fn test_facet_collector_results() {
-
-        let mut schema_builder = schema::Schema::builder();
-        let num_field_i64 = schema_builder.add_i64_field("num_i64", FAST);
-        let num_field_u64 = schema_builder.add_u64_field("num_u64", FAST);
-        let num_field_f64 = schema_builder.add_f64_field("num_f64", FAST);
-        let text_field = schema_builder.add_text_field("text", STRING);
-        let schema = schema_builder.build();
-
-        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema.clone());
-
-        {
-            let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
-            {
-                for i in 0u64..10u64 {
-                    index_writer.add_document(doc!(
-                        num_field_i64 => ((i as i64) % 3i64) as i64,
-                        num_field_u64 => (i % 2u64) as u64,
-                        num_field_f64 => (i % 4u64) as f64,
-                        text_field => "text"
-                    ));
-                }
-            }
-            assert_eq!(index_writer.commit().unwrap(), 10u64);
-        }
-
-        let searcher = index.reader().searcher();
-        let mut ffvf_i64: IntFacetCollector<I64FastFieldReader> = IntFacetCollector::new(num_field_i64);
-        let mut ffvf_u64: IntFacetCollector<U64FastFieldReader> = IntFacetCollector::new(num_field_u64);
-        let mut ffvf_f64: IntFacetCollector<F64FastFieldReader> = IntFacetCollector::new(num_field_f64);
-
-        {
-            // perform the query
-            let mut facet_collectors = chain().push(&mut ffvf_i64).push(&mut ffvf_u64).push(&mut ffvf_f64);
-            let mut query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(index, vec![text_field]);
-            let query = query_parser.parse_query("text:text").unwrap();
-            query.search(&searcher, &mut facet_collectors).unwrap();
-        }
-
-        assert_eq!(ffvf_u64.counters[&0], 5);
-        assert_eq!(ffvf_u64.counters[&1], 5);
-        assert_eq!(ffvf_i64.counters[&0], 4);
-        assert_eq!(ffvf_i64.counters[&1], 3);
-        assert_eq!(ffvf_f64.counters[&0.0], 3);
-        assert_eq!(ffvf_f64.counters[&2.0], 2);
-
-    }
-}

src/collector/mod.rs

@@ -85,15 +85,17 @@ See the `custom_collector` example.
 */
 
 use crate::DocId;
-use crate::Result;
 use crate::Score;
-use crate::SegmentLocalId;
+use crate::SegmentOrdinal;
 use crate::SegmentReader;
 use downcast_rs::impl_downcast;
 
 mod count_collector;
 pub use self::count_collector::Count;
 
+mod histogram_collector;
+pub use histogram_collector::HistogramCollector;
+
 mod multi_collector;
 pub use self::multi_collector::MultiCollector;
 
@@ -110,6 +112,14 @@ pub use self::tweak_score_top_collector::{ScoreSegmentTweaker, ScoreTweaker};
 
 mod facet_collector;
 pub use self::facet_collector::FacetCollector;
+pub use self::facet_collector::FacetCounts;
+use crate::query::Weight;
+
+mod docset_collector;
+pub use self::docset_collector::DocSetCollector;
+
+mod filter_collector_wrapper;
+pub use self::filter_collector_wrapper::FilterCollector;
 
 /// `Fruit` is the type for the result of our collection.
 /// e.g. `usize` for the `Count` collector.
@@ -133,28 +143,109 @@ impl<T> Fruit for T where T: Send + downcast_rs::Downcast {}
 /// The collection logic itself is in the `SegmentCollector`.
 ///
 /// Segments are not guaranteed to be visited in any specific order.
-pub trait Collector: Sync {
+pub trait Collector: Sync + Send {
     /// `Fruit` is the type for the result of our collection.
     /// e.g. `usize` for the `Count` collector.
     type Fruit: Fruit;
 
     /// Type of the `SegmentCollector` associated to this collector.
-    type Child: SegmentCollector<Fruit = Self::Fruit>;
+    type Child: SegmentCollector;
 
     /// `set_segment` is called before beginning to enumerate
     /// on this segment.
     fn for_segment(
         &self,
-        segment_local_id: SegmentLocalId,
+        segment_local_id: SegmentOrdinal,
         segment: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<Self::Child>;
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child>;
 
     /// Returns true iff the collector requires to compute scores for documents.
     fn requires_scoring(&self) -> bool;
 
     /// Combines the fruit associated to the collection of each segments
     /// into one fruit.
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, segment_fruits: Vec<Self::Fruit>) -> Result<Self::Fruit>;
+    fn merge_fruits(
+        &self,
+        segment_fruits: Vec<<Self::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Fruit>;
+
+    /// Created a segment collector and
+    fn collect_segment(
+        &self,
+        weight: &dyn Weight,
+        segment_ord: u32,
+        reader: &SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<<Self::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit> {
+        let mut segment_collector = self.for_segment(segment_ord as u32, reader)?;
+
+        if let Some(alive_bitset) = reader.alive_bitset() {
+            weight.for_each(reader, &mut |doc, score| {
+                if alive_bitset.is_alive(doc) {
+                    segment_collector.collect(doc, score);
+                }
+            })?;
+        } else {
+            weight.for_each(reader, &mut |doc, score| {
+                segment_collector.collect(doc, score);
+            })?;
+        }
+        Ok(segment_collector.harvest())
+    }
+}
+
+impl<TSegmentCollector: SegmentCollector> SegmentCollector for Option<TSegmentCollector> {
+    type Fruit = Option<TSegmentCollector::Fruit>;
+
+    fn collect(&mut self, doc: DocId, score: Score) {
+        if let Some(segment_collector) = self {
+            segment_collector.collect(doc, score);
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn harvest(self) -> Self::Fruit {
+        self.map(|segment_collector| segment_collector.harvest())
+    }
+}
+
+impl<TCollector: Collector> Collector for Option<TCollector> {
+    type Fruit = Option<TCollector::Fruit>;
+
+    type Child = Option<<TCollector as Collector>::Child>;
+
+    fn for_segment(
+        &self,
+        segment_local_id: SegmentOrdinal,
+        segment: &SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
+        Ok(if let Some(inner) = self {
+            let inner_segment_collector = inner.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)?;
+            Some(inner_segment_collector)
+        } else {
+            None
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn requires_scoring(&self) -> bool {
+        self.as_ref()
+            .map(|inner| inner.requires_scoring())
+            .unwrap_or(false)
+    }
+
+    fn merge_fruits(
+        &self,
+        segment_fruits: Vec<<Self::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Fruit> {
+        if let Some(inner) = self.as_ref() {
+            let inner_segment_fruits: Vec<_> = segment_fruits
+                .into_iter()
+                .flat_map(|fruit_opt| fruit_opt.into_iter())
+                .collect();
+            let fruit = inner.merge_fruits(inner_segment_fruits)?;
+            Ok(Some(fruit))
+        } else {
+            Ok(None)
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// The `SegmentCollector` is the trait in charge of defining the
@@ -185,7 +276,11 @@ where
     type Fruit = (Left::Fruit, Right::Fruit);
     type Child = (Left::Child, Right::Child);
 
-    fn for_segment(&self, segment_local_id: u32, segment: &SegmentReader) -> Result<Self::Child> {
+    fn for_segment(
+        &self,
+        segment_local_id: u32,
+        segment: &SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
         let left = self.0.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)?;
         let right = self.1.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)?;
         Ok((left, right))
@@ -197,11 +292,11 @@ where
 
     fn merge_fruits(
         &self,
-        children: Vec<(Left::Fruit, Right::Fruit)>,
-    ) -> Result<(Left::Fruit, Right::Fruit)> {
+        segment_fruits: Vec<<Self::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<(Left::Fruit, Right::Fruit)> {
         let mut left_fruits = vec![];
         let mut right_fruits = vec![];
-        for (left_fruit, right_fruit) in children {
+        for (left_fruit, right_fruit) in segment_fruits {
             left_fruits.push(left_fruit);
             right_fruits.push(right_fruit);
         }
@@ -240,7 +335,11 @@ where
     type Fruit = (One::Fruit, Two::Fruit, Three::Fruit);
     type Child = (One::Child, Two::Child, Three::Child);
 
-    fn for_segment(&self, segment_local_id: u32, segment: &SegmentReader) -> Result<Self::Child> {
+    fn for_segment(
+        &self,
+        segment_local_id: u32,
+        segment: &SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
         let one = self.0.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)?;
         let two = self.1.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)?;
         let three = self.2.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)?;
@@ -251,7 +350,10 @@ where
         self.0.requires_scoring() || self.1.requires_scoring() || self.2.requires_scoring()
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, children: Vec<Self::Fruit>) -> Result<Self::Fruit> {
+    fn merge_fruits(
+        &self,
+        children: Vec<<Self::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Fruit> {
         let mut one_fruits = vec![];
         let mut two_fruits = vec![];
         let mut three_fruits = vec![];
@@ -299,7 +401,11 @@ where
     type Fruit = (One::Fruit, Two::Fruit, Three::Fruit, Four::Fruit);
     type Child = (One::Child, Two::Child, Three::Child, Four::Child);
 
-    fn for_segment(&self, segment_local_id: u32, segment: &SegmentReader) -> Result<Self::Child> {
+    fn for_segment(
+        &self,
+        segment_local_id: u32,
+        segment: &SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
         let one = self.0.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)?;
         let two = self.1.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)?;
         let three = self.2.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)?;
@@ -314,7 +420,10 @@ where
             || self.3.requires_scoring()
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, children: Vec<Self::Fruit>) -> Result<Self::Fruit> {
+    fn merge_fruits(
+        &self,
+        children: Vec<<Self::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Fruit> {
         let mut one_fruits = vec![];
         let mut two_fruits = vec![];
         let mut three_fruits = vec![];

src/collector/multi_collector.rs

@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ use super::Collector;
 use super::SegmentCollector;
 use crate::collector::Fruit;
 use crate::DocId;
-use crate::Result;
 use crate::Score;
-use crate::SegmentLocalId;
+use crate::SegmentOrdinal;
 use crate::SegmentReader;
 use crate::TantivyError;
 use std::marker::PhantomData;
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ impl<TCollector: Collector> Collector for CollectorWrapper<TCollector> {
         &self,
         segment_local_id: u32,
         reader: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<Box<dyn BoxableSegmentCollector>> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<Box<dyn BoxableSegmentCollector>> {
         let child = self.0.for_segment(segment_local_id, reader)?;
         Ok(Box::new(SegmentCollectorWrapper(child)))
     }
@@ -33,18 +32,21 @@ impl<TCollector: Collector> Collector for CollectorWrapper<TCollector> {
         self.0.requires_scoring()
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, children: Vec<<Self as Collector>::Fruit>) -> Result<Box<dyn Fruit>> {
-        let typed_fruit: Vec<TCollector::Fruit> = children
+    fn merge_fruits(
+        &self,
+        children: Vec<<Self::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Box<dyn Fruit>> {
+        let typed_fruit: Vec<<TCollector::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit> = children
             .into_iter()
             .map(|untyped_fruit| {
                 untyped_fruit
-                    .downcast::<TCollector::Fruit>()
+                    .downcast::<<TCollector::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit>()
                     .map(|boxed_but_typed| *boxed_but_typed)
                     .map_err(|_| {
                         TantivyError::InvalidArgument("Failed to cast child fruit.".to_string())
                     })
             })
-            .collect::<Result<_>>()?;
+            .collect::<crate::Result<_>>()?;
         let merged_fruit = self.0.merge_fruits(typed_fruit)?;
         Ok(Box::new(merged_fruit))
     }
@@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ impl<TCollector: Collector> Collector for CollectorWrapper<TCollector> {
 impl SegmentCollector for Box<dyn BoxableSegmentCollector> {
     type Fruit = Box<dyn Fruit>;
 
-    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, score: f32) {
+    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, score: Score) {
         self.as_mut().collect(doc, score);
     }
 
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@ impl SegmentCollector for Box<dyn BoxableSegmentCollector> {
 }
 
 pub trait BoxableSegmentCollector {
-    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, score: f32);
+    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, score: Score);
     fn harvest_from_box(self: Box<Self>) -> Box<dyn Fruit>;
 }
 
@@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ pub struct SegmentCollectorWrapper<TSegmentCollector: SegmentCollector>(TSegment
 impl<TSegmentCollector: SegmentCollector> BoxableSegmentCollector
     for SegmentCollectorWrapper<TSegmentCollector>
 {
-    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, score: f32) {
+    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, score: Score) {
         self.0.collect(doc, score);
     }
 
@@ -173,14 +175,14 @@ impl<'a> Collector for MultiCollector<'a> {
 
     fn for_segment(
         &self,
-        segment_local_id: SegmentLocalId,
+        segment_local_id: SegmentOrdinal,
         segment: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<MultiCollectorChild> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<MultiCollectorChild> {
         let children = self
             .collector_wrappers
             .iter()
             .map(|collector_wrapper| collector_wrapper.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment))
-            .collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
+            .collect::<crate::Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
         Ok(MultiCollectorChild { children })
     }
 
@@ -191,7 +193,7 @@ impl<'a> Collector for MultiCollector<'a> {
             .any(Collector::requires_scoring)
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, segments_multifruits: Vec<MultiFruit>) -> Result<MultiFruit> {
+    fn merge_fruits(&self, segments_multifruits: Vec<MultiFruit>) -> crate::Result<MultiFruit> {
         let mut segment_fruits_list: Vec<Vec<Box<dyn Fruit>>> = (0..self.collector_wrappers.len())
             .map(|_| Vec::with_capacity(segments_multifruits.len()))
             .collect::<Vec<_>>();
@@ -209,7 +211,7 @@ impl<'a> Collector for MultiCollector<'a> {
             .map(|(child_collector, segment_fruits)| {
                 Ok(Some(child_collector.merge_fruits(segment_fruits)?))
             })
-            .collect::<Result<_>>()?;
+            .collect::<crate::Result<_>>()?;
         Ok(MultiFruit { sub_fruits })
     }
 }
@@ -257,7 +259,7 @@ mod tests {
 
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
         {
-            let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+            let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(text=>"abc"));
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(text=>"abc abc abc"));
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(text=>"abc abc"));
@@ -274,7 +276,7 @@ mod tests {
         let mut collectors = MultiCollector::new();
         let topdocs_handler = collectors.add_collector(TopDocs::with_limit(2));
         let count_handler = collectors.add_collector(Count);
-        let mut multifruits = searcher.search(&query, &mut collectors).unwrap();
+        let mut multifruits = searcher.search(&query, &collectors).unwrap();
 
         assert_eq!(count_handler.extract(&mut multifruits), 5);
         assert_eq!(topdocs_handler.extract(&mut multifruits).len(), 2);

src/collector/tests.rs

@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
 use super::*;
 use crate::core::SegmentReader;
 use crate::fastfield::BytesFastFieldReader;
+use crate::fastfield::DynamicFastFieldReader;
 use crate::fastfield::FastFieldReader;
 use crate::schema::Field;
-use crate::DocAddress;
 use crate::DocId;
 use crate::Score;
-use crate::SegmentLocalId;
+use crate::SegmentOrdinal;
+use crate::{DocAddress, Document, Searcher};
+
+use crate::collector::{Count, FilterCollector, TopDocs};
+use crate::query::{AllQuery, QueryParser};
+use crate::schema::{Schema, FAST, TEXT};
+use crate::DateTime;
+use crate::{doc, Index};
+use std::str::FromStr;
 
 pub const TEST_COLLECTOR_WITH_SCORE: TestCollector = TestCollector {
     compute_score: true,
@@ -16,6 +24,54 @@ pub const TEST_COLLECTOR_WITHOUT_SCORE: TestCollector = TestCollector {
     compute_score: true,
 };
 
+#[test]
+pub fn test_filter_collector() {
+    let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+    let title = schema_builder.add_text_field("title", TEXT);
+    let price = schema_builder.add_u64_field("price", FAST);
+    let date = schema_builder.add_date_field("date", FAST);
+    let schema = schema_builder.build();
+    let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+
+    let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000).unwrap();
+    index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Name of the Wind", price => 30_200u64, date => DateTime::from_str("1898-04-09T00:00:00+00:00").unwrap()));
+    index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of Muadib", price => 29_240u64, date => DateTime::from_str("2020-04-09T00:00:00+00:00").unwrap()));
+    index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of Anne Frank", price => 18_240u64, date => DateTime::from_str("2019-04-20T00:00:00+00:00").unwrap()));
+    index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "A Dairy Cow", price => 21_240u64, date => DateTime::from_str("2019-04-09T00:00:00+00:00").unwrap()));
+    index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of a Young Girl", price => 20_120u64, date => DateTime::from_str("2018-04-09T00:00:00+00:00").unwrap()));
+    assert!(index_writer.commit().is_ok());
+
+    let reader = index.reader().unwrap();
+    let searcher = reader.searcher();
+
+    let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![title]);
+    let query = query_parser.parse_query("diary").unwrap();
+    let filter_some_collector = FilterCollector::new(
+        price,
+        &|value: u64| value > 20_120u64,
+        TopDocs::with_limit(2),
+    );
+    let top_docs = searcher.search(&query, &filter_some_collector).unwrap();
+
+    assert_eq!(top_docs.len(), 1);
+    assert_eq!(top_docs[0].1, DocAddress::new(0, 1));
+
+    let filter_all_collector: FilterCollector<_, _, u64> =
+        FilterCollector::new(price, &|value| value < 5u64, TopDocs::with_limit(2));
+    let filtered_top_docs = searcher.search(&query, &filter_all_collector).unwrap();
+
+    assert_eq!(filtered_top_docs.len(), 0);
+
+    fn date_filter(value: DateTime) -> bool {
+        (value - DateTime::from_str("2019-04-09T00:00:00+00:00").unwrap()).num_weeks() > 0
+    }
+
+    let filter_dates_collector = FilterCollector::new(date, &date_filter, TopDocs::with_limit(5));
+    let filtered_date_docs = searcher.search(&query, &filter_dates_collector).unwrap();
+
+    assert_eq!(filtered_date_docs.len(), 2);
+}
+
 /// Stores all of the doc ids.
 /// This collector is only used for tests.
 /// It is unusable in pr
@@ -27,7 +83,7 @@ pub struct TestCollector {
 }
 
 pub struct TestSegmentCollector {
-    segment_id: SegmentLocalId,
+    segment_id: SegmentOrdinal,
     fruit: TestFruit,
 }
 
@@ -53,9 +109,9 @@ impl Collector for TestCollector {
 
     fn for_segment(
         &self,
-        segment_id: SegmentLocalId,
+        segment_id: SegmentOrdinal,
         _reader: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<TestSegmentCollector> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<TestSegmentCollector> {
         Ok(TestSegmentCollector {
             segment_id,
             fruit: TestFruit::default(),
@@ -66,12 +122,12 @@ impl Collector for TestCollector {
         self.compute_score
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, mut children: Vec<TestFruit>) -> Result<TestFruit> {
+    fn merge_fruits(&self, mut children: Vec<TestFruit>) -> crate::Result<TestFruit> {
         children.sort_by_key(|fruit| {
             if fruit.docs().is_empty() {
                 0
             } else {
-                fruit.docs()[0].segment_ord()
+                fruit.docs()[0].segment_ord
             }
         });
         let mut docs = vec![];
@@ -88,7 +144,7 @@ impl SegmentCollector for TestSegmentCollector {
     type Fruit = TestFruit;
 
     fn collect(&mut self, doc: DocId, score: Score) {
-        self.fruit.docs.push(DocAddress(self.segment_id, doc));
+        self.fruit.docs.push(DocAddress::new(self.segment_id, doc));
         self.fruit.scores.push(score);
     }
 
@@ -107,7 +163,7 @@ pub struct FastFieldTestCollector {
 
 pub struct FastFieldSegmentCollector {
     vals: Vec<u64>,
-    reader: FastFieldReader<u64>,
+    reader: DynamicFastFieldReader<u64>,
 }
 
 impl FastFieldTestCollector {
@@ -122,9 +178,9 @@ impl Collector for FastFieldTestCollector {
 
     fn for_segment(
         &self,
-        _: SegmentLocalId,
+        _: SegmentOrdinal,
         segment_reader: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<FastFieldSegmentCollector> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<FastFieldSegmentCollector> {
         let reader = segment_reader
             .fast_fields()
             .u64(self.field)
@@ -139,7 +195,7 @@ impl Collector for FastFieldTestCollector {
         false
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, children: Vec<Vec<u64>>) -> Result<Vec<u64>> {
+    fn merge_fruits(&self, children: Vec<Vec<u64>>) -> crate::Result<Vec<u64>> {
         Ok(children.into_iter().flat_map(|v| v.into_iter()).collect())
     }
 }
@@ -184,13 +240,11 @@ impl Collector for BytesFastFieldTestCollector {
         &self,
         _segment_local_id: u32,
         segment_reader: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<BytesFastFieldSegmentCollector> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<BytesFastFieldSegmentCollector> {
+        let reader = segment_reader.fast_fields().bytes(self.field)?;
         Ok(BytesFastFieldSegmentCollector {
             vals: Vec::new(),
-            reader: segment_reader
-                .fast_fields()
-                .bytes(self.field)
-                .expect("Field is not a bytes fast field."),
+            reader,
         })
     }
 
@@ -198,7 +252,7 @@ impl Collector for BytesFastFieldTestCollector {
         false
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, children: Vec<Vec<u8>>) -> Result<Vec<u8>> {
+    fn merge_fruits(&self, children: Vec<Vec<u8>>) -> crate::Result<Vec<u8>> {
         Ok(children.into_iter().flat_map(|c| c.into_iter()).collect())
     }
 }
@@ -206,7 +260,7 @@ impl Collector for BytesFastFieldTestCollector {
 impl SegmentCollector for BytesFastFieldSegmentCollector {
     type Fruit = Vec<u8>;
 
-    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, _score: f32) {
+    fn collect(&mut self, doc: u32, _score: Score) {
         let data = self.reader.get_bytes(doc);
         self.vals.extend(data);
     }
@@ -215,3 +269,30 @@ impl SegmentCollector for BytesFastFieldSegmentCollector {
         self.vals
     }
 }
+
+fn make_test_searcher() -> crate::Result<crate::LeasedItem<Searcher>> {
+    let schema = Schema::builder().build();
+    let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+    let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+    index_writer.add_document(Document::default());
+    index_writer.add_document(Document::default());
+    index_writer.commit()?;
+    Ok(index.reader()?.searcher())
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_option_collector_some() -> crate::Result<()> {
+    let searcher = make_test_searcher()?;
+    let counts = searcher.search(&AllQuery, &Some(Count))?;
+    assert_eq!(counts, Some(2));
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_option_collector_none() -> crate::Result<()> {
+    let searcher = make_test_searcher()?;
+    let none_collector: Option<Count> = None;
+    let counts = searcher.search(&AllQuery, &none_collector)?;
+    assert_eq!(counts, None);
+    Ok(())
+}

src/collector/top_collector.rs

@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 use crate::DocAddress;
 use crate::DocId;
-use crate::Result;
-use crate::SegmentLocalId;
+use crate::SegmentOrdinal;
 use crate::SegmentReader;
-use serde::export::PhantomData;
 use std::cmp::Ordering;
 use std::collections::BinaryHeap;
+use std::marker::PhantomData;
 
 /// Contains a feature (field, score, etc.) of a document along with the document address.
 ///
@@ -19,9 +18,9 @@ use std::collections::BinaryHeap;
 /// Two elements are equal if their feature is equal, and regardless of whether `doc`
 /// is equal. This should be perfectly fine for this usage, but let's make sure this
 /// struct is never public.
-struct ComparableDoc<T, D> {
-    feature: T,
-    doc: D,
+pub(crate) struct ComparableDoc<T, D> {
+    pub feature: T,
+    pub doc: D,
 }
 
 impl<T: PartialOrd, D: PartialOrd> PartialOrd for ComparableDoc<T, D> {
@@ -57,7 +56,8 @@ impl<T: PartialOrd, D: PartialOrd> PartialEq for ComparableDoc<T, D> {
 impl<T: PartialOrd, D: PartialOrd> Eq for ComparableDoc<T, D> {}
 
 pub(crate) struct TopCollector<T> {
-    limit: usize,
+    pub limit: usize,
+    pub offset: usize,
     _marker: PhantomData<T>,
 }
 
@@ -73,27 +73,33 @@ where
         if limit < 1 {
             panic!("Limit must be strictly greater than 0.");
         }
-        TopCollector {
+        Self {
             limit,
+            offset: 0,
             _marker: PhantomData,
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn limit(&self) -> usize {
-        self.limit
+    /// Skip the first "offset" documents when collecting.
+    ///
+    /// This is equivalent to `OFFSET` in MySQL or PostgreSQL and `start` in
+    /// Lucene's TopDocsCollector.
+    pub fn and_offset(mut self, offset: usize) -> TopCollector<T> {
+        self.offset = offset;
+        self
     }
 
     pub fn merge_fruits(
         &self,
         children: Vec<Vec<(T, DocAddress)>>,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<(T, DocAddress)>> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<Vec<(T, DocAddress)>> {
         if self.limit == 0 {
             return Ok(Vec::new());
         }
         let mut top_collector = BinaryHeap::new();
         for child_fruit in children {
             for (feature, doc) in child_fruit {
-                if top_collector.len() < self.limit {
+                if top_collector.len() < (self.limit + self.offset) {
                     top_collector.push(ComparableDoc { feature, doc });
                 } else if let Some(mut head) = top_collector.peek_mut() {
                     if head.feature < feature {
@@ -105,16 +111,30 @@ where
         Ok(top_collector
             .into_sorted_vec()
             .into_iter()
+            .skip(self.offset)
             .map(|cdoc| (cdoc.feature, cdoc.doc))
             .collect())
     }
 
     pub(crate) fn for_segment<F: PartialOrd>(
         &self,
-        segment_id: SegmentLocalId,
+        segment_id: SegmentOrdinal,
         _: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<TopSegmentCollector<F>> {
-        Ok(TopSegmentCollector::new(segment_id, self.limit))
+    ) -> TopSegmentCollector<F> {
+        TopSegmentCollector::new(segment_id, self.limit + self.offset)
+    }
+
+    /// Create a new TopCollector with the same limit and offset.
+    ///
+    /// Ideally we would use Into but the blanket implementation seems to cause the Scorer traits
+    /// to fail.
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    pub(crate) fn into_tscore<TScore: PartialOrd + Clone>(self) -> TopCollector<TScore> {
+        TopCollector {
+            limit: self.limit,
+            offset: self.offset,
+            _marker: PhantomData,
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -127,29 +147,32 @@ where
 pub(crate) struct TopSegmentCollector<T> {
     limit: usize,
     heap: BinaryHeap<ComparableDoc<T, DocId>>,
-    segment_id: u32,
+    segment_ord: u32,
 }
 
 impl<T: PartialOrd> TopSegmentCollector<T> {
-    fn new(segment_id: SegmentLocalId, limit: usize) -> TopSegmentCollector<T> {
+    fn new(segment_ord: SegmentOrdinal, limit: usize) -> TopSegmentCollector<T> {
         TopSegmentCollector {
             limit,
             heap: BinaryHeap::with_capacity(limit),
-            segment_id,
+            segment_ord,
         }
     }
 }
 
 impl<T: PartialOrd + Clone> TopSegmentCollector<T> {
     pub fn harvest(self) -> Vec<(T, DocAddress)> {
-        let segment_id = self.segment_id;
+        let segment_ord = self.segment_ord;
         self.heap
             .into_sorted_vec()
             .into_iter()
             .map(|comparable_doc| {
                 (
                     comparable_doc.feature,
-                    DocAddress(segment_id, comparable_doc.doc),
+                    DocAddress {
+                        segment_ord,
+                        doc_id: comparable_doc.doc,
+                    },
                 )
             })
             .collect()
@@ -157,7 +180,7 @@ impl<T: PartialOrd + Clone> TopSegmentCollector<T> {
 
     /// Return true iff at least K documents have gone through
     /// the collector.
-    #[inline(always)]
+    #[inline]
     pub(crate) fn at_capacity(&self) -> bool {
         self.heap.len() >= self.limit
     }
@@ -166,7 +189,7 @@ impl<T: PartialOrd + Clone> TopSegmentCollector<T> {
     ///
     /// It collects documents until it has reached the max capacity. Once it reaches capacity, it
     /// will compare the lowest scoring item with the given one and keep whichever is greater.
-    #[inline(always)]
+    #[inline]
     pub fn collect(&mut self, doc: DocId, feature: T) {
         if self.at_capacity() {
             // It's ok to unwrap as long as a limit of 0 is forbidden.
@@ -188,7 +211,7 @@ impl<T: PartialOrd + Clone> TopSegmentCollector<T> {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use super::TopSegmentCollector;
+    use super::{TopCollector, TopSegmentCollector};
     use crate::DocAddress;
 
     #[test]
@@ -200,9 +223,9 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(
             top_collector.harvest(),
             vec![
-                (0.8, DocAddress(0, 1)),
-                (0.3, DocAddress(0, 5)),
-                (0.2, DocAddress(0, 3))
+                (0.8, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+                (0.3, DocAddress::new(0, 5)),
+                (0.2, DocAddress::new(0, 3))
             ]
         );
     }
@@ -218,10 +241,10 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(
             top_collector.harvest(),
             vec![
-                (0.9, DocAddress(0, 7)),
-                (0.8, DocAddress(0, 1)),
-                (0.3, DocAddress(0, 5)),
-                (0.2, DocAddress(0, 3))
+                (0.9, DocAddress::new(0, 7)),
+                (0.8, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+                (0.3, DocAddress::new(0, 5)),
+                (0.2, DocAddress::new(0, 3))
             ]
         );
     }
@@ -249,6 +272,54 @@ mod tests {
             top_collector_limit_3.harvest()[..2].to_vec(),
         );
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_top_collector_with_limit_and_offset() {
+        let collector = TopCollector::with_limit(2).and_offset(1);
+
+        let results = collector
+            .merge_fruits(vec![vec![
+                (0.9, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+                (0.8, DocAddress::new(0, 2)),
+                (0.7, DocAddress::new(0, 3)),
+                (0.6, DocAddress::new(0, 4)),
+                (0.5, DocAddress::new(0, 5)),
+            ]])
+            .unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            results,
+            vec![(0.8, DocAddress::new(0, 2)), (0.7, DocAddress::new(0, 3)),]
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_top_collector_with_limit_larger_than_set_and_offset() {
+        let collector = TopCollector::with_limit(2).and_offset(1);
+
+        let results = collector
+            .merge_fruits(vec![vec![
+                (0.9, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+                (0.8, DocAddress::new(0, 2)),
+            ]])
+            .unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(results, vec![(0.8, DocAddress::new(0, 2)),]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_top_collector_with_limit_and_offset_larger_than_set() {
+        let collector = TopCollector::with_limit(2).and_offset(20);
+
+        let results = collector
+            .merge_fruits(vec![vec![
+                (0.9, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+                (0.8, DocAddress::new(0, 2)),
+            ]])
+            .unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(results, vec![]);
+    }
 }
 
 #[cfg(all(test, feature = "unstable"))]

src/collector/top_score_collector.rs

@@ -1,20 +1,82 @@
 use super::Collector;
-use crate::collector::custom_score_top_collector::CustomScoreTopCollector;
-use crate::collector::top_collector::TopCollector;
-use crate::collector::top_collector::TopSegmentCollector;
+use crate::collector::top_collector::{ComparableDoc, TopCollector};
 use crate::collector::tweak_score_top_collector::TweakedScoreTopCollector;
 use crate::collector::{
     CustomScorer, CustomSegmentScorer, ScoreSegmentTweaker, ScoreTweaker, SegmentCollector,
 };
-use crate::fastfield::FastFieldReader;
+use crate::fastfield::{DynamicFastFieldReader, FastFieldReader};
+use crate::query::Weight;
 use crate::schema::Field;
 use crate::DocAddress;
 use crate::DocId;
-use crate::Result;
 use crate::Score;
-use crate::SegmentLocalId;
+use crate::SegmentOrdinal;
 use crate::SegmentReader;
+use crate::{collector::custom_score_top_collector::CustomScoreTopCollector, fastfield::FastValue};
+use crate::{collector::top_collector::TopSegmentCollector, TantivyError};
 use std::fmt;
+use std::{collections::BinaryHeap, marker::PhantomData};
+
+struct FastFieldConvertCollector<
+    TCollector: Collector<Fruit = Vec<(u64, DocAddress)>>,
+    TFastValue: FastValue,
+> {
+    pub collector: TCollector,
+    pub field: Field,
+    pub fast_value: std::marker::PhantomData<TFastValue>,
+}
+
+impl<TCollector, TFastValue> Collector for FastFieldConvertCollector<TCollector, TFastValue>
+where
+    TCollector: Collector<Fruit = Vec<(u64, DocAddress)>>,
+    TFastValue: FastValue,
+{
+    type Fruit = Vec<(TFastValue, DocAddress)>;
+
+    type Child = TCollector::Child;
+
+    fn for_segment(
+        &self,
+        segment_local_id: crate::SegmentOrdinal,
+        segment: &SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
+        let schema = segment.schema();
+        let field_entry = schema.get_field_entry(self.field);
+        if !field_entry.is_fast() {
+            return Err(TantivyError::SchemaError(format!(
+                "Field {:?} is not a fast field.",
+                field_entry.name()
+            )));
+        }
+        let schema_type = TFastValue::to_type();
+        let requested_type = field_entry.field_type().value_type();
+        if schema_type != requested_type {
+            return Err(TantivyError::SchemaError(format!(
+                "Field {:?} is of type {:?}!={:?}",
+                field_entry.name(),
+                schema_type,
+                requested_type
+            )));
+        }
+        self.collector.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment)
+    }
+
+    fn requires_scoring(&self) -> bool {
+        self.collector.requires_scoring()
+    }
+
+    fn merge_fruits(
+        &self,
+        segment_fruits: Vec<<Self::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Fruit> {
+        let raw_result = self.collector.merge_fruits(segment_fruits)?;
+        let transformed_result = raw_result
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|(score, doc_address)| (TFastValue::from_u64(score), doc_address))
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        Ok(transformed_result)
+    }
+}
 
 /// The `TopDocs` collector keeps track of the top `K` documents
 /// sorted by their score.
@@ -37,7 +99,7 @@ use std::fmt;
 /// let schema = schema_builder.build();
 /// let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
 ///
-/// let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+/// let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000).unwrap();
 /// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Name of the Wind"));
 /// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of Muadib"));
 /// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "A Dairy Cow"));
@@ -51,24 +113,28 @@ use std::fmt;
 /// let query = query_parser.parse_query("diary").unwrap();
 /// let top_docs = searcher.search(&query, &TopDocs::with_limit(2)).unwrap();
 ///
-/// assert_eq!(&top_docs[0], &(0.7261542, DocAddress(0, 1)));
-/// assert_eq!(&top_docs[1], &(0.6099695, DocAddress(0, 3)));
+/// assert_eq!(top_docs[0].1, DocAddress::new(0, 1));
+/// assert_eq!(top_docs[1].1, DocAddress::new(0, 3));
 /// ```
 pub struct TopDocs(TopCollector<Score>);
 
 impl fmt::Debug for TopDocs {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
-        write!(f, "TopDocs({})", self.0.limit())
+        write!(
+            f,
+            "TopDocs(limit={}, offset={})",
+            self.0.limit, self.0.offset
+        )
     }
 }
 
 struct ScorerByFastFieldReader {
-    ff_reader: FastFieldReader<u64>,
+    ff_reader: DynamicFastFieldReader<u64>,
 }
 
 impl CustomSegmentScorer<u64> for ScorerByFastFieldReader {
-    fn score(&self, doc: DocId) -> u64 {
-        self.ff_reader.get_u64(u64::from(doc))
+    fn score(&mut self, doc: DocId) -> u64 {
+        self.ff_reader.get(doc)
     }
 }
 
@@ -80,12 +146,14 @@ impl CustomScorer<u64> for ScorerByField {
     type Child = ScorerByFastFieldReader;
 
     fn segment_scorer(&self, segment_reader: &SegmentReader) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
+        // We interpret this field as u64, regardless of its type, that way,
+        // we avoid needless conversion. Regardless of the fast field type, the
+        // mapping is monotonic, so it is sufficient to compute our top-K docs.
+        //
+        // The conversion will then happen only on the top-K docs.
         let ff_reader = segment_reader
             .fast_fields()
-            .u64(self.field)
-            .ok_or_else(|| {
-                crate::Error::SchemaError(format!("Field requested is not a i64/u64 fast field."))
-            })?;
+            .typed_fast_field_reader(self.field)?;
         Ok(ScorerByFastFieldReader { ff_reader })
     }
 }
@@ -99,11 +167,60 @@ impl TopDocs {
         TopDocs(TopCollector::with_limit(limit))
     }
 
+    /// Skip the first "offset" documents when collecting.
+    ///
+    /// This is equivalent to `OFFSET` in MySQL or PostgreSQL and `start` in
+    /// Lucene's TopDocsCollector.
+    ///
+    /// # Example
+    ///
+    /// ```rust
+    /// use tantivy::collector::TopDocs;
+    /// use tantivy::query::QueryParser;
+    /// use tantivy::schema::{Schema, TEXT};
+    /// use tantivy::{doc, DocAddress, Index};
+    ///
+    /// let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+    /// let title = schema_builder.add_text_field("title", TEXT);
+    /// let schema = schema_builder.build();
+    /// let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+    ///
+    /// let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000).unwrap();
+    /// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Name of the Wind"));
+    /// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of Muadib"));
+    /// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "A Dairy Cow"));
+    /// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of a Young Girl"));
+    /// index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of Lena Mukhina"));
+    /// assert!(index_writer.commit().is_ok());
+    ///
+    /// let reader = index.reader().unwrap();
+    /// let searcher = reader.searcher();
+    ///
+    /// let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![title]);
+    /// let query = query_parser.parse_query("diary").unwrap();
+    /// let top_docs = searcher.search(&query, &TopDocs::with_limit(2).and_offset(1)).unwrap();
+    ///
+    /// assert_eq!(top_docs.len(), 2);
+    /// assert_eq!(top_docs[0].1, DocAddress::new(0, 4));
+    /// assert_eq!(top_docs[1].1, DocAddress::new(0, 3));
+    /// ```
+    pub fn and_offset(self, offset: usize) -> TopDocs {
+        TopDocs(self.0.and_offset(offset))
+    }
+
     /// Set top-K to rank documents by a given fast field.
     ///
+    /// If the field is not a fast or does not exist, this method returns successfully (it is not aware of any schema).
+    /// An error will be returned at the moment of search.
+    ///
+    /// If the field is a FAST field but not a u64 field, search will return successfully but it will return
+    /// returns a monotonic u64-representation (ie. the order is still correct) of the requested field type.
+    ///
+    /// # Example
+    ///
     /// ```rust
     /// # use tantivy::schema::{Schema, FAST, TEXT};
-    /// # use tantivy::{doc, Index, Result, DocAddress};
+    /// # use tantivy::{doc, Index, DocAddress};
     /// # use tantivy::query::{Query, QueryParser};
     /// use tantivy::Searcher;
     /// use tantivy::collector::TopDocs;
@@ -114,42 +231,37 @@ impl TopDocs {
     /// #   let title = schema_builder.add_text_field("title", TEXT);
     /// #   let rating = schema_builder.add_u64_field("rating", FAST);
     /// #   let schema = schema_builder.build();
-    /// #  
+    /// #
     /// #   let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-    /// #   let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000)?;
+    /// #   let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000)?;
     /// #   index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Name of the Wind", rating => 92u64));
     /// #   index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of Muadib", rating => 97u64));
     /// #   index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "A Dairy Cow", rating => 63u64));
     /// #   index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "The Diary of a Young Girl", rating => 80u64));
     /// #   assert!(index_writer.commit().is_ok());
-    /// #   let reader = index.reader().unwrap();
+    /// #   let reader = index.reader()?;
     /// #   let query = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![title]).parse_query("diary")?;
     /// #   let top_docs = docs_sorted_by_rating(&reader.searcher(), &query, rating)?;
     /// #   assert_eq!(top_docs,
-    /// #            vec![(97u64, DocAddress(0u32, 1)),
-    /// #                 (80u64, DocAddress(0u32, 3))]);
+    /// #            vec![(97u64, DocAddress::new(0u32, 1)),
+    /// #                 (80u64, DocAddress::new(0u32, 3))]);
     /// #   Ok(())
     /// # }
-    ///
-    ///
     /// /// Searches the document matching the given query, and
     /// /// collects the top 10 documents, order by the u64-`field`
     /// /// given in argument.
-    /// ///
-    /// /// `field` is required to be a FAST field.
     /// fn docs_sorted_by_rating(searcher: &Searcher,
     ///                          query: &dyn Query,
-    ///                          sort_by_field: Field)
-    ///     -> Result<Vec<(u64, DocAddress)>> {
+    ///                          rating_field: Field)
+    ///     -> tantivy::Result<Vec<(u64, DocAddress)>> {
     ///
     ///     // This is where we build our topdocs collector
     ///     //
-    ///     // Note the generics parameter that needs to match the
-    ///     // type `sort_by_field`.
-    ///     let top_docs_by_rating = TopDocs
+    ///     // Note the `rating_field` needs to be a FAST field here.
+    ///     let top_books_by_rating = TopDocs
     ///                 ::with_limit(10)
-    ///                  .order_by_u64_field(sort_by_field);
-    ///     
+    ///                  .order_by_u64_field(rating_field);
+    ///
     ///     // ... and here are our documents. Note this is a simple vec.
     ///     // The `u64` in the pair is the value of our fast field for
     ///     // each documents.
@@ -158,21 +270,105 @@ impl TopDocs {
     ///     // length of 10, or less if not enough documents matched the
     ///     // query.
     ///     let resulting_docs: Vec<(u64, DocAddress)> =
-    ///          searcher.search(query, &top_docs_by_rating)?;
-    ///     
+    ///          searcher.search(query, &top_books_by_rating)?;
+    ///
     ///     Ok(resulting_docs)
     /// }
     /// ```
     ///
-    /// # Panics
-    ///
-    /// May panic if the field requested is not a fast field.
+    /// # See also
     ///
+    /// To confortably work with `u64`s, `i64`s, `f64`s, or `date`s, please refer to
+    /// [.order_by_fast_field(...)](#method.order_by_fast_field) method.
     pub fn order_by_u64_field(
         self,
         field: Field,
     ) -> impl Collector<Fruit = Vec<(u64, DocAddress)>> {
-        self.custom_score(ScorerByField { field })
+        CustomScoreTopCollector::new(ScorerByField { field }, self.0.into_tscore())
+    }
+
+    /// Set top-K to rank documents by a given fast field.
+    ///
+    /// If the field is not a fast field, or its field type does not match the generic type, this method does not panic,
+    /// but an explicit error will be returned at the moment of collection.
+    ///
+    /// Note that this method is a generic. The requested fast field type will be often
+    /// inferred in your code by the rust compiler.
+    ///
+    /// Implementation-wise, for performance reason, tantivy will manipulate the u64 representation of your fast
+    /// field until the last moment.
+    ///
+    /// # Example
+    ///
+    /// ```rust
+    /// # use tantivy::schema::{Schema, FAST, TEXT};
+    /// # use tantivy::{doc, Index, DocAddress};
+    /// # use tantivy::query::{Query, AllQuery};
+    /// use tantivy::Searcher;
+    /// use tantivy::collector::TopDocs;
+    /// use tantivy::schema::Field;
+    ///
+    /// # fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
+    /// #   let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+    /// #   let title = schema_builder.add_text_field("company", TEXT);
+    /// #   let rating = schema_builder.add_i64_field("revenue", FAST);
+    /// #   let schema = schema_builder.build();
+    /// #
+    /// #   let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+    /// #   let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000)?;
+    /// #   index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "MadCow Inc.", rating => 92_000_000i64));
+    /// #   index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "Zozo Cow KKK", rating => 119_000_000i64));
+    /// #   index_writer.add_document(doc!(title => "Declining Cow", rating => -63_000_000i64));
+    /// #   assert!(index_writer.commit().is_ok());
+    /// #   let reader = index.reader()?;
+    /// #   let top_docs = docs_sorted_by_revenue(&reader.searcher(), &AllQuery, rating)?;
+    /// #   assert_eq!(top_docs,
+    /// #            vec![(119_000_000i64, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+    /// #                 (92_000_000i64, DocAddress::new(0, 0))]);
+    /// #   Ok(())
+    /// # }
+    /// /// Searches the document matching the given query, and
+    /// /// collects the top 10 documents, order by the u64-`field`
+    /// /// given in argument.
+    /// fn docs_sorted_by_revenue(searcher: &Searcher,
+    ///                          query: &dyn Query,
+    ///                          revenue_field: Field)
+    ///     -> tantivy::Result<Vec<(i64, DocAddress)>> {
+    ///
+    ///     // This is where we build our topdocs collector
+    ///     //
+    ///     // Note the generics parameter that needs to match the
+    ///     // type `sort_by_field`. revenue_field here is a FAST i64 field.
+    ///     let top_company_by_revenue = TopDocs
+    ///                 ::with_limit(2)
+    ///                  .order_by_fast_field(revenue_field);
+    ///
+    ///     // ... and here are our documents. Note this is a simple vec.
+    ///     // The `i64` in the pair is the value of our fast field for
+    ///     // each documents.
+    ///     //
+    ///     // The vec is sorted decreasingly by `sort_by_field`, and has a
+    ///     // length of 10, or less if not enough documents matched the
+    ///     // query.
+    ///     let resulting_docs: Vec<(i64, DocAddress)> =
+    ///          searcher.search(query, &top_company_by_revenue)?;
+    ///
+    ///     Ok(resulting_docs)
+    /// }
+    /// ```
+    pub fn order_by_fast_field<TFastValue>(
+        self,
+        fast_field: Field,
+    ) -> impl Collector<Fruit = Vec<(TFastValue, DocAddress)>>
+    where
+        TFastValue: FastValue,
+    {
+        let u64_collector = self.order_by_u64_field(fast_field);
+        FastFieldConvertCollector {
+            collector: u64_collector,
+            field: fast_field,
+            fast_value: PhantomData,
+        }
     }
 
     /// Ranks the documents using a custom score.
@@ -195,7 +391,7 @@ impl TopDocs {
     ///
     /// In the following example will will tweak our ranking a bit by
     /// boosting popular products a notch.
-    ///  
+    ///
     /// In more serious application, this tweaking could involved running a
     /// learning-to-rank model over various features
     ///
@@ -205,6 +401,7 @@ impl TopDocs {
     /// # use tantivy::query::QueryParser;
     /// use tantivy::SegmentReader;
     /// use tantivy::collector::TopDocs;
+    /// use tantivy::fastfield::FastFieldReader;
     /// use tantivy::schema::Field;
     ///
     /// fn create_schema() -> Schema {
@@ -217,7 +414,7 @@ impl TopDocs {
     /// fn create_index() -> tantivy::Result<Index> {
     ///   let schema = create_schema();
     ///   let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-    ///   let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000)?;
+    ///   let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000)?;
     ///   let product_name = index.schema().get_field("product_name").unwrap();
     ///   let popularity: Field = index.schema().get_field("popularity").unwrap();
     ///   index_writer.add_document(doc!(product_name => "The Diary of Muadib", popularity => 1u64));
@@ -256,7 +453,7 @@ impl TopDocs {
     ///                 let popularity: u64 = popularity_reader.get(doc);
     ///                 // Well.. For the sake of the example we use a simple logarithm
     ///                 // function.
-    ///                 let popularity_boost_score = ((2u64 + popularity) as f32).log2();
+    ///                 let popularity_boost_score = ((2u64 + popularity) as Score).log2();
     ///                 popularity_boost_score * original_score
     ///             }
     ///           });
@@ -277,9 +474,9 @@ impl TopDocs {
     where
         TScore: 'static + Send + Sync + Clone + PartialOrd,
         TScoreSegmentTweaker: ScoreSegmentTweaker<TScore> + 'static,
-        TScoreTweaker: ScoreTweaker<TScore, Child = TScoreSegmentTweaker>,
+        TScoreTweaker: ScoreTweaker<TScore, Child = TScoreSegmentTweaker> + Send + Sync,
     {
-        TweakedScoreTopCollector::new(score_tweaker, self.0.limit())
+        TweakedScoreTopCollector::new(score_tweaker, self.0.into_tscore())
     }
 
     /// Ranks the documents using a custom score.
@@ -312,6 +509,7 @@ impl TopDocs {
     /// use tantivy::SegmentReader;
     /// use tantivy::collector::TopDocs;
     /// use tantivy::schema::Field;
+    /// use tantivy::fastfield::FastFieldReader;
     ///
     /// # fn create_schema() -> Schema {
     /// #    let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
@@ -324,9 +522,9 @@ impl TopDocs {
     /// # fn main() -> tantivy::Result<()> {
     /// #   let schema = create_schema();
     /// #   let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-    /// #   let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000)?;
+    /// #   let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000)?;
     /// #   let product_name = index.schema().get_field("product_name").unwrap();
-    /// #   
+    /// #
     /// let popularity: Field = index.schema().get_field("popularity").unwrap();
     /// let boosted: Field = index.schema().get_field("boosted").unwrap();
     /// #   index_writer.add_document(doc!(boosted=>1u64, product_name => "The Diary of Muadib", popularity => 1u64));
@@ -360,7 +558,7 @@ impl TopDocs {
     ///                 segment_reader.fast_fields().u64(popularity).unwrap();
     ///             let boosted_reader =
     ///                 segment_reader.fast_fields().u64(boosted).unwrap();
-    ///    
+    ///
     ///             // We can now define our actual scoring function
     ///             move |doc: DocId| {
     ///                 let popularity: u64 = popularity_reader.get(doc);
@@ -391,9 +589,9 @@ impl TopDocs {
     where
         TScore: 'static + Send + Sync + Clone + PartialOrd,
         TCustomSegmentScorer: CustomSegmentScorer<TScore> + 'static,
-        TCustomScorer: CustomScorer<TScore, Child = TCustomSegmentScorer>,
+        TCustomScorer: CustomScorer<TScore, Child = TCustomSegmentScorer> + Send + Sync,
     {
-        CustomScoreTopCollector::new(custom_score, self.0.limit())
+        CustomScoreTopCollector::new(custom_score, self.0.into_tscore())
     }
 }
 
@@ -404,10 +602,10 @@ impl Collector for TopDocs {
 
     fn for_segment(
         &self,
-        segment_local_id: SegmentLocalId,
+        segment_local_id: SegmentOrdinal,
         reader: &SegmentReader,
-    ) -> Result<Self::Child> {
-        let collector = self.0.for_segment(segment_local_id, reader)?;
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Child> {
+        let collector = self.0.for_segment(segment_local_id, reader);
         Ok(TopScoreSegmentCollector(collector))
     }
 
@@ -415,9 +613,78 @@ impl Collector for TopDocs {
         true
     }
 
-    fn merge_fruits(&self, child_fruits: Vec<Vec<(Score, DocAddress)>>) -> Result<Self::Fruit> {
+    fn merge_fruits(
+        &self,
+        child_fruits: Vec<Vec<(Score, DocAddress)>>,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Self::Fruit> {
         self.0.merge_fruits(child_fruits)
     }
+
+    fn collect_segment(
+        &self,
+        weight: &dyn Weight,
+        segment_ord: u32,
+        reader: &SegmentReader,
+    ) -> crate::Result<<Self::Child as SegmentCollector>::Fruit> {
+        let heap_len = self.0.limit + self.0.offset;
+        let mut heap: BinaryHeap<ComparableDoc<Score, DocId>> = BinaryHeap::with_capacity(heap_len);
+
+        if let Some(alive_bitset) = reader.alive_bitset() {
+            let mut threshold = Score::MIN;
+            weight.for_each_pruning(threshold, reader, &mut |doc, score| {
+                if alive_bitset.is_deleted(doc) {
+                    return threshold;
+                }
+                let heap_item = ComparableDoc {
+                    feature: score,
+                    doc,
+                };
+                if heap.len() < heap_len {
+                    heap.push(heap_item);
+                    if heap.len() == heap_len {
+                        threshold = heap.peek().map(|el| el.feature).unwrap_or(Score::MIN);
+                    }
+                    return threshold;
+                }
+                *heap.peek_mut().unwrap() = heap_item;
+                threshold = heap.peek().map(|el| el.feature).unwrap_or(Score::MIN);
+                threshold
+            })?;
+        } else {
+            weight.for_each_pruning(Score::MIN, reader, &mut |doc, score| {
+                let heap_item = ComparableDoc {
+                    feature: score,
+                    doc,
+                };
+                if heap.len() < heap_len {
+                    heap.push(heap_item);
+                    // TODO the threshold is suboptimal for heap.len == heap_len
+                    if heap.len() == heap_len {
+                        return heap.peek().map(|el| el.feature).unwrap_or(Score::MIN);
+                    } else {
+                        return Score::MIN;
+                    }
+                }
+                *heap.peek_mut().unwrap() = heap_item;
+                heap.peek().map(|el| el.feature).unwrap_or(Score::MIN)
+            })?;
+        }
+
+        let fruit = heap
+            .into_sorted_vec()
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|cid| {
+                (
+                    cid.feature,
+                    DocAddress {
+                        segment_ord,
+                        doc_id: cid.doc,
+                    },
+                )
+            })
+            .collect();
+        Ok(fruit)
+    }
 }
 
 /// Segment Collector associated to `TopDocs`.
@@ -427,7 +694,7 @@ impl SegmentCollector for TopScoreSegmentCollector {
     type Fruit = Vec<(Score, DocAddress)>;
 
     fn collect(&mut self, doc: DocId, score: Score) {
-        self.0.collect(doc, score)
+        self.0.collect(doc, score);
     }
 
     fn harvest(self) -> Vec<(Score, DocAddress)> {
@@ -441,11 +708,10 @@ mod tests {
     use crate::collector::Collector;
     use crate::query::{AllQuery, Query, QueryParser};
     use crate::schema::{Field, Schema, FAST, STORED, TEXT};
-    use crate::DocAddress;
     use crate::Index;
     use crate::IndexWriter;
     use crate::Score;
-    use itertools::Itertools;
+    use crate::{DocAddress, DocId, SegmentReader};
 
     fn make_index() -> Index {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
@@ -454,7 +720,7 @@ mod tests {
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
         {
             // writing the segment
-            let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+            let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000).unwrap();
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(text_field=>"Hello happy tax payer."));
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(text_field=>"Droopy says hello happy tax payer"));
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(text_field=>"I like Droopy"));
@@ -463,8 +729,15 @@ mod tests {
         index
     }
 
+    fn assert_results_equals(results: &[(Score, DocAddress)], expected: &[(Score, DocAddress)]) {
+        for (result, expected) in results.iter().zip(expected.iter()) {
+            assert_eq!(result.1, expected.1);
+            crate::assert_nearly_equals!(result.0, expected.0);
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
-    fn test_top_collector_not_at_capacity() {
+    fn test_top_collector_not_at_capacity_without_offset() {
         let index = make_index();
         let field = index.schema().get_field("text").unwrap();
         let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![field]);
@@ -475,16 +748,31 @@ mod tests {
             .searcher()
             .search(&text_query, &TopDocs::with_limit(4))
             .unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(
-            score_docs,
-            vec![
-                (0.81221175, DocAddress(0u32, 1)),
-                (0.5376842, DocAddress(0u32, 2)),
-                (0.48527452, DocAddress(0, 0))
-            ]
+        assert_results_equals(
+            &score_docs,
+            &[
+                (0.81221175, DocAddress::new(0u32, 1)),
+                (0.5376842, DocAddress::new(0u32, 2)),
+                (0.48527452, DocAddress::new(0, 0)),
+            ],
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_top_collector_not_at_capacity_with_offset() {
+        let index = make_index();
+        let field = index.schema().get_field("text").unwrap();
+        let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![field]);
+        let text_query = query_parser.parse_query("droopy tax").unwrap();
+        let score_docs: Vec<(Score, DocAddress)> = index
+            .reader()
+            .unwrap()
+            .searcher()
+            .search(&text_query, &TopDocs::with_limit(4).and_offset(2))
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_results_equals(&score_docs[..], &[(0.48527452, DocAddress::new(0, 0))]);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_top_collector_at_capacity() {
         let index = make_index();
@@ -497,12 +785,33 @@ mod tests {
             .searcher()
             .search(&text_query, &TopDocs::with_limit(2))
             .unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(
-            score_docs,
-            vec![
-                (0.81221175, DocAddress(0u32, 1)),
-                (0.5376842, DocAddress(0u32, 2)),
-            ]
+        assert_results_equals(
+            &score_docs,
+            &[
+                (0.81221175, DocAddress::new(0u32, 1)),
+                (0.5376842, DocAddress::new(0u32, 2)),
+            ],
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_top_collector_at_capacity_with_offset() {
+        let index = make_index();
+        let field = index.schema().get_field("text").unwrap();
+        let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![field]);
+        let text_query = query_parser.parse_query("droopy tax").unwrap();
+        let score_docs: Vec<(Score, DocAddress)> = index
+            .reader()
+            .unwrap()
+            .searcher()
+            .search(&text_query, &TopDocs::with_limit(2).and_offset(1))
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_results_equals(
+            &score_docs[..],
+            &[
+                (0.5376842, DocAddress::new(0u32, 2)),
+                (0.48527452, DocAddress::new(0, 0)),
+            ],
         );
     }
 
@@ -519,8 +828,8 @@ mod tests {
 
         // precondition for the test to be meaningful: we did get documents
         // with the same score
-        assert!(page_1.iter().map(|result| result.0).all_equal());
-        assert!(page_2.iter().map(|result| result.0).all_equal());
+        assert!(page_1.iter().all(|result| result.0 == page_1[0].0));
+        assert!(page_2.iter().all(|result| result.0 == page_2[0].0));
 
         // sanity check since we're relying on make_index()
         assert_eq!(page_1.len(), 2);
@@ -563,15 +872,109 @@ mod tests {
         let top_collector = TopDocs::with_limit(4).order_by_u64_field(size);
         let top_docs: Vec<(u64, DocAddress)> = searcher.search(&query, &top_collector).unwrap();
         assert_eq!(
-            top_docs,
-            vec![
-                (64, DocAddress(0, 1)),
-                (16, DocAddress(0, 2)),
-                (12, DocAddress(0, 0))
+            &top_docs[..],
+            &[
+                (64, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+                (16, DocAddress::new(0, 2)),
+                (12, DocAddress::new(0, 0))
             ]
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_top_field_collector_datetime() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        use std::str::FromStr;
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let name = schema_builder.add_text_field("name", TEXT);
+        let birthday = schema_builder.add_date_field("birthday", FAST);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        let pr_birthday = crate::DateTime::from_str("1898-04-09T00:00:00+00:00")?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+            name => "Paul Robeson",
+            birthday => pr_birthday
+        ));
+        let mr_birthday = crate::DateTime::from_str("1947-11-08T00:00:00+00:00")?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+            name => "Minnie Riperton",
+            birthday => mr_birthday
+        ));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let top_collector = TopDocs::with_limit(3).order_by_fast_field(birthday);
+        let top_docs: Vec<(crate::DateTime, DocAddress)> =
+            searcher.search(&AllQuery, &top_collector)?;
+        assert_eq!(
+            &top_docs[..],
+            &[
+                (mr_birthday, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+                (pr_birthday, DocAddress::new(0, 0)),
+            ]
+        );
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_top_field_collector_i64() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let city = schema_builder.add_text_field("city", TEXT);
+        let altitude = schema_builder.add_i64_field("altitude", FAST);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+                city => "georgetown",
+                altitude =>  -1i64,
+        ));
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+            city => "tokyo",
+            altitude =>  40i64,
+        ));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let top_collector = TopDocs::with_limit(3).order_by_fast_field(altitude);
+        let top_docs: Vec<(i64, DocAddress)> = searcher.search(&AllQuery, &top_collector)?;
+        assert_eq!(
+            &top_docs[..],
+            &[
+                (40i64, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+                (-1i64, DocAddress::new(0, 0)),
+            ]
+        );
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_top_field_collector_f64() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let city = schema_builder.add_text_field("city", TEXT);
+        let altitude = schema_builder.add_f64_field("altitude", FAST);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+                city => "georgetown",
+                altitude =>  -1.0f64,
+        ));
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+            city => "tokyo",
+            altitude =>  40f64,
+        ));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let top_collector = TopDocs::with_limit(3).order_by_fast_field(altitude);
+        let top_docs: Vec<(f64, DocAddress)> = searcher.search(&AllQuery, &top_collector)?;
+        assert_eq!(
+            &top_docs[..],
+            &[
+                (40f64, DocAddress::new(0, 1)),
+                (-1.0f64, DocAddress::new(0, 0)),
+            ]
+        );
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
     #[test]
     #[should_panic]
     fn test_field_does_not_exist() {
@@ -594,37 +997,93 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_field_not_fast_field() {
+    fn test_field_not_fast_field() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
-        let title = schema_builder.add_text_field(TITLE, TEXT);
         let size = schema_builder.add_u64_field(SIZE, STORED);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
-        let (index, _) = index("beer", title, schema, |index_writer| {
-            index_writer.add_document(doc!(
-                title => "bottle of beer",
-                size => 12u64,
-            ));
-        });
-        let searcher = index.reader().unwrap().searcher();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(size=>1u64));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
         let segment = searcher.segment_reader(0);
         let top_collector = TopDocs::with_limit(4).order_by_u64_field(size);
-        let err = top_collector.for_segment(0, segment);
-        if let Err(crate::Error::SchemaError(msg)) = err {
-            assert_eq!(msg, "Field requested is not a i64/u64 fast field.");
-        } else {
-            assert!(false);
-        }
+        let err = top_collector.for_segment(0, segment).err().unwrap();
+        assert!(matches!(err, crate::TantivyError::SchemaError(_)));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_field_wrong_type() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let size = schema_builder.add_u64_field(SIZE, STORED);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(size=>1u64));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let segment = searcher.segment_reader(0);
+        let top_collector = TopDocs::with_limit(4).order_by_fast_field::<i64>(size);
+        let err = top_collector.for_segment(0, segment).err().unwrap();
+        assert!(
+            matches!(err, crate::TantivyError::SchemaError(msg) if msg == "Field \"size\" is not a fast field.")
+        );
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_tweak_score_top_collector_with_offset() {
+        let index = make_index();
+        let field = index.schema().get_field("text").unwrap();
+        let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![field]);
+        let text_query = query_parser.parse_query("droopy tax").unwrap();
+        let collector = TopDocs::with_limit(2).and_offset(1).tweak_score(
+            move |_segment_reader: &SegmentReader| move |doc: DocId, _original_score: Score| doc,
+        );
+        let score_docs: Vec<(u32, DocAddress)> = index
+            .reader()
+            .unwrap()
+            .searcher()
+            .search(&text_query, &collector)
+            .unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            score_docs,
+            vec![(1, DocAddress::new(0, 1)), (0, DocAddress::new(0, 0)),]
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_custom_score_top_collector_with_offset() {
+        let index = make_index();
+        let field = index.schema().get_field("text").unwrap();
+        let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![field]);
+        let text_query = query_parser.parse_query("droopy tax").unwrap();
+        let collector = TopDocs::with_limit(2)
+            .and_offset(1)
+            .custom_score(move |_segment_reader: &SegmentReader| move |doc: DocId| doc);
+        let score_docs: Vec<(u32, DocAddress)> = index
+            .reader()
+            .unwrap()
+            .searcher()
+            .search(&text_query, &collector)
+            .unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            score_docs,
+            vec![(1, DocAddress::new(0, 1)), (0, DocAddress::new(0, 0)),]
+        );
     }
 
     fn index(
         query: &str,
         query_field: Field,
         schema: Schema,
-        mut doc_adder: impl FnMut(&mut IndexWriter) -> (),
+        mut doc_adder: impl FnMut(&mut IndexWriter),
     ) -> (Index, Box<dyn Query>) {
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000).unwrap();
         doc_adder(&mut index_writer);
         index_writer.commit().unwrap();
         let query_parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![query_field]);

src/collector/tweak_score_top_collector.rs

@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ where
 {
     pub fn new(
         score_tweaker: TScoreTweaker,
-        limit: usize,
+        collector: TopCollector<TScore>,
     ) -> TweakedScoreTopCollector<TScoreTweaker, TScore> {
         TweakedScoreTopCollector {
             score_tweaker,
-            collector: TopCollector::with_limit(limit),
+            collector,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ where
 /// It is the segment local version of the [`ScoreTweaker`](./trait.ScoreTweaker.html).
 pub trait ScoreSegmentTweaker<TScore>: 'static {
     /// Tweak the given `score` for the document `doc`.
-    fn score(&self, doc: DocId, score: Score) -> TScore;
+    fn score(&mut self, doc: DocId, score: Score) -> TScore;
 }
 
 /// `ScoreTweaker` makes it possible to tweak the score
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ pub trait ScoreTweaker<TScore>: Sync {
 
 impl<TScoreTweaker, TScore> Collector for TweakedScoreTopCollector<TScoreTweaker, TScore>
 where
-    TScoreTweaker: ScoreTweaker<TScore>,
+    TScoreTweaker: ScoreTweaker<TScore> + Send + Sync,
     TScore: 'static + PartialOrd + Clone + Send + Sync,
 {
     type Fruit = Vec<(TScore, DocAddress)>;
@@ -62,9 +62,7 @@ where
         segment_reader: &SegmentReader,
     ) -> Result<Self::Child> {
         let segment_scorer = self.score_tweaker.segment_tweaker(segment_reader)?;
-        let segment_collector = self
-            .collector
-            .for_segment(segment_local_id, segment_reader)?;
+        let segment_collector = self.collector.for_segment(segment_local_id, segment_reader);
         Ok(TopTweakedScoreSegmentCollector {
             segment_collector,
             segment_scorer,
@@ -121,9 +119,9 @@ where
 
 impl<F, TScore> ScoreSegmentTweaker<TScore> for F
 where
-    F: 'static + Sync + Send + Fn(DocId, Score) -> TScore,
+    F: 'static + FnMut(DocId, Score) -> TScore,
 {
-    fn score(&self, doc: DocId, score: Score) -> TScore {
+    fn score(&mut self, doc: DocId, score: Score) -> TScore {
         (self)(doc, score)
     }
 }

src/common/counting_writer.rs

@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-use crate::directory::AntiCallToken;
-use crate::directory::TerminatingWrite;
-use std::io;
-use std::io::Write;
-
-pub struct CountingWriter<W> {
-    underlying: W,
-    written_bytes: u64,
-}
-
-impl<W: Write> CountingWriter<W> {
-    pub fn wrap(underlying: W) -> CountingWriter<W> {
-        CountingWriter {
-            underlying,
-            written_bytes: 0,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn written_bytes(&self) -> u64 {
-        self.written_bytes
-    }
-
-    pub fn finish(mut self) -> io::Result<(W, u64)> {
-        self.flush()?;
-        Ok((self.underlying, self.written_bytes))
-    }
-}
-
-impl<W: Write> Write for CountingWriter<W> {
-    fn write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> io::Result<usize> {
-        let written_size = self.underlying.write(buf)?;
-        self.written_bytes += written_size as u64;
-        Ok(written_size)
-    }
-
-    fn write_all(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
-        self.underlying.write_all(buf)?;
-        self.written_bytes += buf.len() as u64;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    fn flush(&mut self) -> io::Result<()> {
-        self.underlying.flush()
-    }
-}
-
-impl<W: TerminatingWrite> TerminatingWrite for CountingWriter<W> {
-    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, token: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()> {
-        self.flush()?;
-        self.underlying.terminate_ref(token)
-    }
-}
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-mod test {
-
-    use super::CountingWriter;
-    use std::io::Write;
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_counting_writer() {
-        let buffer: Vec<u8> = vec![];
-        let mut counting_writer = CountingWriter::wrap(buffer);
-        let bytes = (0u8..10u8).collect::<Vec<u8>>();
-        counting_writer.write_all(&bytes).unwrap();
-        let (w, len): (Vec<u8>, u64) = counting_writer.finish().unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(len, 10u64);
-        assert_eq!(w.len(), 10);
-    }
-}

src/core/executor.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-use crate::Result;
 use crossbeam::channel;
-use rayon::{ThreadPool, ThreadPoolBuilder};
 
 /// Search executor whether search request are single thread or multithread.
 ///
@@ -10,8 +8,8 @@ use rayon::{ThreadPool, ThreadPoolBuilder};
 /// API of a dependency, knowing it might conflict with a different version
 /// used by the client. Second, we may stop using rayon in the future.
 pub enum Executor {
+    /// Single thread variant of an Executor
     SingleThread,
-    ThreadPool(ThreadPool),
 }
 
 impl Executor {
@@ -20,65 +18,22 @@ impl Executor {
         Executor::SingleThread
     }
 
-    // Creates an Executor that dispatches the tasks in a thread pool.
-    pub fn multi_thread(num_threads: usize, prefix: &'static str) -> Result<Executor> {
-        let pool = ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
-            .num_threads(num_threads)
-            .thread_name(move |num| format!("{}{}", prefix, num))
-            .build()?;
-        Ok(Executor::ThreadPool(pool))
-    }
-
-    // Perform a map in the thread pool.
-    //
-    // Regardless of the executor (`SingleThread` or `ThreadPool`), panics in the task
-    // will propagate to the caller.
+    /// Perform a map in the thread pool.
+    ///
+    /// Regardless of the executor (`SingleThread` or `ThreadPool`), panics in the task
+    /// will propagate to the caller.
     pub fn map<
         A: Send,
         R: Send,
         AIterator: Iterator<Item = A>,
-        F: Sized + Sync + Fn(A) -> Result<R>,
+        F: Sized + Sync + Fn(A) -> crate::Result<R>,
     >(
         &self,
         f: F,
         args: AIterator,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<R>> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<Vec<R>> {
         match self {
-            Executor::SingleThread => args.map(f).collect::<Result<_>>(),
-            Executor::ThreadPool(pool) => {
-                let args_with_indices: Vec<(usize, A)> = args.enumerate().collect();
-                let num_fruits = args_with_indices.len();
-                let fruit_receiver = {
-                    let (fruit_sender, fruit_receiver) = channel::unbounded();
-                    pool.scope(|scope| {
-                        for arg_with_idx in args_with_indices {
-                            scope.spawn(|_| {
-                                let (idx, arg) = arg_with_idx;
-                                let fruit = f(arg);
-                                if let Err(err) = fruit_sender.send((idx, fruit)) {
-                                    error!("Failed to send search task. It probably means all search threads have panicked. {:?}", err);
-                                }
-                            });
-                        }
-                    });
-                    fruit_receiver
-                    // This ends the scope of fruit_sender.
-                    // This is important as it makes it possible for the fruit_receiver iteration to
-                    // terminate.
-                };
-                // This is lame, but safe.
-                let mut results_with_position = Vec::with_capacity(num_fruits);
-                for (pos, fruit_res) in fruit_receiver {
-                    let fruit = fruit_res?;
-                    results_with_position.push((pos, fruit));
-                }
-                results_with_position.sort_by_key(|(pos, _)| *pos);
-                assert_eq!(results_with_position.len(), num_fruits);
-                Ok(results_with_position
-                    .into_iter()
-                    .map(|(_, fruit)| fruit)
-                    .collect::<Vec<_>>())
-            }
+            Executor::SingleThread => args.map(f).collect::<crate::Result<_>>(),
         }
     }
 }

src/core/index.rs

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-use super::segment::create_segment;
-use super::segment::Segment;
+use super::{segment::Segment, IndexSettings};
 use crate::core::Executor;
 use crate::core::IndexMeta;
 use crate::core::SegmentId;
 use crate::core::SegmentMeta;
 use crate::core::SegmentMetaInventory;
 use crate::core::META_FILEPATH;
+use crate::directory::error::OpenReadError;
 use crate::directory::ManagedDirectory;
 #[cfg(feature = "mmap")]
 use crate::directory::MmapDirectory;
 use crate::directory::INDEX_WRITER_LOCK;
-use crate::directory::{Directory, RAMDirectory};
+use crate::directory::{Directory, RamDirectory};
 use crate::error::DataCorruption;
 use crate::error::TantivyError;
-use crate::indexer::index_writer::HEAP_SIZE_MIN;
+use crate::indexer::index_writer::{HEAP_SIZE_MIN, MAX_NUM_THREAD};
 use crate::indexer::segment_updater::save_new_metas;
 use crate::reader::IndexReader;
 use crate::reader::IndexReaderBuilder;
@@ -22,41 +22,183 @@ use crate::schema::FieldType;
 use crate::schema::Schema;
 use crate::tokenizer::{TextAnalyzer, TokenizerManager};
 use crate::IndexWriter;
-use crate::Result;
-use num_cpus;
-use std::borrow::BorrowMut;
 use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::fmt;
+
 #[cfg(feature = "mmap")]
-use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::path::Path;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
-fn load_metas(directory: &dyn Directory, inventory: &SegmentMetaInventory) -> Result<IndexMeta> {
+fn load_metas(
+    directory: &dyn Directory,
+    inventory: &SegmentMetaInventory,
+) -> crate::Result<IndexMeta> {
     let meta_data = directory.atomic_read(&META_FILEPATH)?;
-    let meta_string = String::from_utf8_lossy(&meta_data);
-    IndexMeta::deserialize(&meta_string, &inventory)
+    let meta_string = String::from_utf8(meta_data).map_err(|_utf8_err| {
+        error!("Meta data is not valid utf8.");
+        DataCorruption::new(
+            META_FILEPATH.to_path_buf(),
+            "Meta file does not contain valid utf8 file.".to_string(),
+        )
+    })?;
+    IndexMeta::deserialize(&meta_string, inventory)
         .map_err(|e| {
             DataCorruption::new(
                 META_FILEPATH.to_path_buf(),
-                format!("Meta file cannot be deserialized. {:?}.", e),
+                format!(
+                    "Meta file cannot be deserialized. {:?}. Content: {:?}",
+                    e, meta_string
+                ),
             )
         })
         .map_err(From::from)
 }
 
+/// IndexBuilder can be used to create an index.
+///
+/// Use in conjunction with `SchemaBuilder`. Global index settings
+/// can be configured with `IndexSettings`
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// ```
+/// use tantivy::schema::*;
+/// use tantivy::{Index, IndexSettings, IndexSortByField, Order};
+///
+/// let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+/// let id_field = schema_builder.add_text_field("id", STRING);
+/// let title_field = schema_builder.add_text_field("title", TEXT);
+/// let body_field = schema_builder.add_text_field("body", TEXT);
+/// let number_field = schema_builder.add_u64_field(
+///     "number",
+///     IntOptions::default().set_fast(Cardinality::SingleValue),
+/// );
+///
+/// let schema = schema_builder.build();
+/// let settings = IndexSettings{sort_by_field: Some(IndexSortByField{field:"number".to_string(), order:Order::Asc}), ..Default::default()};
+/// let index = Index::builder().schema(schema).settings(settings).create_in_ram();
+///
+/// ```
+pub struct IndexBuilder {
+    schema: Option<Schema>,
+    index_settings: IndexSettings,
+}
+impl Default for IndexBuilder {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        IndexBuilder::new()
+    }
+}
+impl IndexBuilder {
+    /// Creates a new `IndexBuilder`
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            schema: None,
+            index_settings: IndexSettings::default(),
+        }
+    }
+    /// Set the settings
+    pub fn settings(mut self, settings: IndexSettings) -> Self {
+        self.index_settings = settings;
+        self
+    }
+    /// Set the schema
+    pub fn schema(mut self, schema: Schema) -> Self {
+        self.schema = Some(schema);
+        self
+    }
+    /// Creates a new index using the `RAMDirectory`.
+    ///
+    /// The index will be allocated in anonymous memory.
+    /// This should only be used for unit tests.
+    pub fn create_in_ram(self) -> Result<Index, TantivyError> {
+        let ram_directory = RamDirectory::create();
+        Ok(self
+            .create(ram_directory)
+            .expect("Creating a RAMDirectory should never fail"))
+    }
+    /// Creates a new index in a given filepath.
+    /// The index will use the `MMapDirectory`.
+    ///
+    /// If a previous index was in this directory, it returns an `IndexAlreadyExists` error.
+    #[cfg(feature = "mmap")]
+    pub fn create_in_dir<P: AsRef<Path>>(self, directory_path: P) -> crate::Result<Index> {
+        let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::open(directory_path)?;
+        if Index::exists(&mmap_directory)? {
+            return Err(TantivyError::IndexAlreadyExists);
+        }
+        self.create(mmap_directory)
+    }
+    /// Creates a new index in a temp directory.
+    ///
+    /// The index will use the `MMapDirectory` in a newly created directory.
+    /// The temp directory will be destroyed automatically when the `Index` object
+    /// is destroyed.
+    ///
+    /// The temp directory is only used for testing the `MmapDirectory`.
+    /// For other unit tests, prefer the `RAMDirectory`, see: `create_in_ram`.
+    #[cfg(feature = "mmap")]
+    pub fn create_from_tempdir(self) -> crate::Result<Index> {
+        let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::create_from_tempdir()?;
+        self.create(mmap_directory)
+    }
+    fn get_expect_schema(&self) -> crate::Result<Schema> {
+        self.schema
+            .as_ref()
+            .cloned()
+            .ok_or(TantivyError::IndexBuilderMissingArgument("schema"))
+    }
+    /// Opens or creates a new index in the provided directory
+    pub fn open_or_create<Dir: Directory>(self, dir: Dir) -> crate::Result<Index> {
+        if !Index::exists(&dir)? {
+            return self.create(dir);
+        }
+        let index = Index::open(dir)?;
+        if index.schema() == self.get_expect_schema()? {
+            Ok(index)
+        } else {
+            Err(TantivyError::SchemaError(
+                "An index exists but the schema does not match.".to_string(),
+            ))
+        }
+    }
+    /// Creates a new index given an implementation of the trait `Directory`.
+    ///
+    /// If a directory previously existed, it will be erased.
+    fn create<Dir: Directory>(self, dir: Dir) -> crate::Result<Index> {
+        let directory = ManagedDirectory::wrap(dir)?;
+        save_new_metas(
+            self.get_expect_schema()?,
+            self.index_settings.clone(),
+            &directory,
+        )?;
+        let mut metas = IndexMeta::with_schema(self.get_expect_schema()?);
+        metas.index_settings = self.index_settings;
+        let index = Index::open_from_metas(directory, &metas, SegmentMetaInventory::default());
+        Ok(index)
+    }
+}
+
 /// Search Index
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Index {
     directory: ManagedDirectory,
     schema: Schema,
+    settings: IndexSettings,
     executor: Arc<Executor>,
     tokenizers: TokenizerManager,
     inventory: SegmentMetaInventory,
 }
 
 impl Index {
-    /// Examines the director to see if it contains an index
-    pub fn exists<Dir: Directory>(dir: &Dir) -> bool {
+    /// Creates a new builder.
+    pub fn builder() -> IndexBuilder {
+        IndexBuilder::new()
+    }
+    /// Examines the directory to see if it contains an index.
+    ///
+    /// Effectively, it only checks for the presence of the `meta.json` file.
+    pub fn exists<Dir: Directory>(dir: &Dir) -> Result<bool, OpenReadError> {
         dir.exists(&META_FILEPATH)
     }
 
@@ -72,53 +214,44 @@ impl Index {
 
     /// Replace the default single thread search executor pool
     /// by a thread pool with a given number of threads.
-    pub fn set_multithread_executor(&mut self, num_threads: usize) -> Result<()> {
+    pub fn set_multithread_executor(&mut self, num_threads: usize) -> crate::Result<()> {
         self.executor = Arc::new(Executor::multi_thread(num_threads, "thrd-tantivy-search-")?);
         Ok(())
     }
 
     /// Replace the default single thread search executor pool
     /// by a thread pool with a given number of threads.
-    pub fn set_default_multithread_executor(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
+    pub fn set_default_multithread_executor(&mut self) -> crate::Result<()> {
         let default_num_threads = num_cpus::get();
         self.set_multithread_executor(default_num_threads)
     }
 
-    /// Creates a new index using the `RAMDirectory`.
+    /// Creates a new index using the `RamDirectory`.
     ///
     /// The index will be allocated in anonymous memory.
-    /// This should only be used for unit tests.
+    /// This is useful for indexing small set of documents
+    /// for instances like unit test or temporary in memory index.
     pub fn create_in_ram(schema: Schema) -> Index {
-        let ram_directory = RAMDirectory::create();
-        Index::create(ram_directory, schema).expect("Creating a RAMDirectory should never fail")
+        IndexBuilder::new().schema(schema).create_in_ram().unwrap()
     }
 
     /// Creates a new index in a given filepath.
     /// The index will use the `MMapDirectory`.
     ///
-    /// If a previous index was in this directory, then its meta file will be destroyed.
+    /// If a previous index was in this directory, then it returns  an `IndexAlreadyExists` error.
     #[cfg(feature = "mmap")]
-    pub fn create_in_dir<P: AsRef<Path>>(directory_path: P, schema: Schema) -> Result<Index> {
-        let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::open(directory_path)?;
-        if Index::exists(&mmap_directory) {
-            return Err(TantivyError::IndexAlreadyExists);
-        }
-        Index::create(mmap_directory, schema)
+    pub fn create_in_dir<P: AsRef<Path>>(
+        directory_path: P,
+        schema: Schema,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Index> {
+        IndexBuilder::new()
+            .schema(schema)
+            .create_in_dir(directory_path)
     }
 
     /// Opens or creates a new index in the provided directory
-    pub fn open_or_create<Dir: Directory>(dir: Dir, schema: Schema) -> Result<Index> {
-        if !Index::exists(&dir) {
-            return Index::create(dir, schema);
-        }
-        let index = Index::open(dir)?;
-        if index.schema() == schema {
-            Ok(index)
-        } else {
-            Err(TantivyError::SchemaError(
-                "An index exists but the schema does not match.".to_string(),
-            ))
-        }
+    pub fn open_or_create<Dir: Directory>(dir: Dir, schema: Schema) -> crate::Result<Index> {
+        IndexBuilder::new().schema(schema).open_or_create(dir)
     }
 
     /// Creates a new index in a temp directory.
@@ -128,42 +261,40 @@ impl Index {
     /// is destroyed.
     ///
     /// The temp directory is only used for testing the `MmapDirectory`.
-    /// For other unit tests, prefer the `RAMDirectory`, see: `create_in_ram`.
+    /// For other unit tests, prefer the `RamDirectory`, see: `create_in_ram`.
     #[cfg(feature = "mmap")]
-    pub fn create_from_tempdir(schema: Schema) -> Result<Index> {
-        let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::create_from_tempdir()?;
-        Index::create(mmap_directory, schema)
+    pub fn create_from_tempdir(schema: Schema) -> crate::Result<Index> {
+        IndexBuilder::new().schema(schema).create_from_tempdir()
     }
 
-    /// Creates a new index given an implementation of the trait `Directory`
-    pub fn create<Dir: Directory>(dir: Dir, schema: Schema) -> Result<Index> {
-        let directory = ManagedDirectory::wrap(dir)?;
-        Index::from_directory(directory, schema)
-    }
-
-    /// Create a new index from a directory.
+    /// Creates a new index given an implementation of the trait `Directory`.
     ///
-    /// This will overwrite existing meta.json
-    fn from_directory(mut directory: ManagedDirectory, schema: Schema) -> Result<Index> {
-        save_new_metas(schema.clone(), directory.borrow_mut())?;
-        let metas = IndexMeta::with_schema(schema);
-        Index::create_from_metas(directory, &metas, SegmentMetaInventory::default())
+    /// If a directory previously existed, it will be erased.
+    pub fn create<Dir: Directory>(
+        dir: Dir,
+        schema: Schema,
+        settings: IndexSettings,
+    ) -> crate::Result<Index> {
+        let mut builder = IndexBuilder::new().schema(schema);
+        builder = builder.settings(settings);
+        builder.create(dir)
     }
 
     /// Creates a new index given a directory and an `IndexMeta`.
-    fn create_from_metas(
+    fn open_from_metas(
         directory: ManagedDirectory,
         metas: &IndexMeta,
         inventory: SegmentMetaInventory,
-    ) -> Result<Index> {
+    ) -> Index {
         let schema = metas.schema.clone();
-        Ok(Index {
+        Index {
+            settings: metas.index_settings.clone(),
             directory,
             schema,
             tokenizers: TokenizerManager::default(),
             executor: Arc::new(Executor::single_thread()),
             inventory,
-        })
+        }
     }
 
     /// Accessor for the tokenizer manager.
@@ -172,7 +303,7 @@ impl Index {
     }
 
     /// Helper to access the tokenizer associated to a specific field.
-    pub fn tokenizer_for_field(&self, field: Field) -> Result<TextAnalyzer> {
+    pub fn tokenizer_for_field(&self, field: Field) -> crate::Result<TextAnalyzer> {
         let field_entry = self.schema.get_field_entry(field);
         let field_type = field_entry.field_type();
         let tokenizer_manager: &TokenizerManager = self.tokenizers();
@@ -195,7 +326,7 @@ impl Index {
     /// Create a default `IndexReader` for the given index.
     ///
     /// See [`Index.reader_builder()`](#method.reader_builder).
-    pub fn reader(&self) -> Result<IndexReader> {
+    pub fn reader(&self) -> crate::Result<IndexReader> {
         self.reader_builder().try_into()
     }
 
@@ -210,7 +341,7 @@ impl Index {
 
     /// Opens a new directory from an index path.
     #[cfg(feature = "mmap")]
-    pub fn open_in_dir<P: AsRef<Path>>(directory_path: P) -> Result<Index> {
+    pub fn open_in_dir<P: AsRef<Path>>(directory_path: P) -> crate::Result<Index> {
         let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::open(directory_path)?;
         Index::open(mmap_directory)
     }
@@ -220,7 +351,7 @@ impl Index {
     /// Such segments can of course be part of the index,
     /// but also they could be segments being currently built or in the middle of a merge
     /// operation.
-    pub fn list_all_segment_metas(&self) -> Vec<SegmentMeta> {
+    pub(crate) fn list_all_segment_metas(&self) -> Vec<SegmentMeta> {
         self.inventory.all()
     }
 
@@ -234,15 +365,16 @@ impl Index {
     }
 
     /// Open the index using the provided directory
-    pub fn open<D: Directory>(directory: D) -> Result<Index> {
+    pub fn open<D: Directory>(directory: D) -> crate::Result<Index> {
         let directory = ManagedDirectory::wrap(directory)?;
         let inventory = SegmentMetaInventory::default();
         let metas = load_metas(&directory, &inventory)?;
-        Index::create_from_metas(directory, &metas, inventory)
+        let index = Index::open_from_metas(directory, &metas, inventory);
+        Ok(index)
     }
 
     /// Reads the index meta file from the directory.
-    pub fn load_metas(&self) -> Result<IndexMeta> {
+    pub fn load_metas(&self) -> crate::Result<IndexMeta> {
         load_metas(self.directory(), &self.inventory)
     }
 
@@ -262,7 +394,7 @@ impl Index {
     /// Each thread will receive a budget of  `overall_heap_size_in_bytes / num_threads`.
     ///
     /// # Errors
-    /// If the lockfile already exists, returns `Error::DirectoryLockBusy` or an `Error::IOError`.
+    /// If the lockfile already exists, returns `Error::DirectoryLockBusy` or an `Error::IoError`.
     ///
     /// # Panics
     /// If the heap size per thread is too small, panics.
@@ -270,7 +402,7 @@ impl Index {
         &self,
         num_threads: usize,
         overall_heap_size_in_bytes: usize,
-    ) -> Result<IndexWriter> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<IndexWriter> {
         let directory_lock = self
             .directory
             .acquire_lock(&INDEX_WRITER_LOCK)
@@ -278,7 +410,7 @@ impl Index {
                 TantivyError::LockFailure(
                     err,
                     Some(
-                        "Failed to acquire index lock. If you are using\
+                        "Failed to acquire index lock. If you are using \
                          a regular directory, this means there is already an \
                          `IndexWriter` working on this `Directory`, in this process \
                          or in a different process."
@@ -295,9 +427,19 @@ impl Index {
         )
     }
 
+    /// Helper to create an index writer for tests.
+    ///
+    /// That index writer only simply has a single thread and a heap of 10 MB.
+    /// Using a single thread gives us a deterministic allocation of DocId.
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub fn writer_for_tests(&self) -> crate::Result<IndexWriter> {
+        self.writer_with_num_threads(1, 10_000_000)
+    }
+
     /// Creates a multithreaded writer
     ///
-    /// Tantivy will automatically define the number of threads to use.
+    /// Tantivy will automatically define the number of threads to use, but
+    /// no more than [`MAX_NUM_THREAD`] threads.
     /// `overall_heap_size_in_bytes` is the total target memory usage that will be split
     /// between a given number of threads.
     ///
@@ -305,8 +447,8 @@ impl Index {
     /// If the lockfile already exists, returns `Error::FileAlreadyExists`.
     /// # Panics
     /// If the heap size per thread is too small, panics.
-    pub fn writer(&self, overall_heap_size_in_bytes: usize) -> Result<IndexWriter> {
-        let mut num_threads = num_cpus::get();
+    pub fn writer(&self, overall_heap_size_in_bytes: usize) -> crate::Result<IndexWriter> {
+        let mut num_threads = std::cmp::min(num_cpus::get(), MAX_NUM_THREAD);
         let heap_size_in_bytes_per_thread = overall_heap_size_in_bytes / num_threads;
         if heap_size_in_bytes_per_thread < HEAP_SIZE_MIN {
             num_threads = (overall_heap_size_in_bytes / HEAP_SIZE_MIN).max(1);
@@ -314,6 +456,18 @@ impl Index {
         self.writer_with_num_threads(num_threads, overall_heap_size_in_bytes)
     }
 
+    /// Accessor to the index settings
+    ///
+    pub fn settings(&self) -> &IndexSettings {
+        &self.settings
+    }
+
+    /// Accessor to the index settings
+    ///
+    pub fn settings_mut(&mut self) -> &mut IndexSettings {
+        &mut self.settings
+    }
+
     /// Accessor to the index schema
     ///
     /// The schema is actually cloned.
@@ -322,7 +476,7 @@ impl Index {
     }
 
     /// Returns the list of segments that are searchable
-    pub fn searchable_segments(&self) -> Result<Vec<Segment>> {
+    pub fn searchable_segments(&self) -> crate::Result<Vec<Segment>> {
         Ok(self
             .searchable_segment_metas()?
             .into_iter()
@@ -332,7 +486,7 @@ impl Index {
 
     #[doc(hidden)]
     pub fn segment(&self, segment_meta: SegmentMeta) -> Segment {
-        create_segment(self.clone(), segment_meta)
+        Segment::for_index(self.clone(), segment_meta)
     }
 
     /// Creates a new segment.
@@ -355,12 +509,12 @@ impl Index {
 
     /// Reads the meta.json and returns the list of
     /// `SegmentMeta` from the last commit.
-    pub fn searchable_segment_metas(&self) -> Result<Vec<SegmentMeta>> {
+    pub fn searchable_segment_metas(&self) -> crate::Result<Vec<SegmentMeta>> {
         Ok(self.load_metas()?.segments)
     }
 
     /// Returns the list of segment ids that are searchable.
-    pub fn searchable_segment_ids(&self) -> Result<Vec<SegmentId>> {
+    pub fn searchable_segment_ids(&self) -> crate::Result<Vec<SegmentId>> {
         Ok(self
             .searchable_segment_metas()?
             .iter()
@@ -369,8 +523,23 @@ impl Index {
     }
 
     /// Returns the set of corrupted files
-    pub fn validate_checksum(&self) -> Result<HashSet<PathBuf>> {
-        self.directory.list_damaged().map_err(Into::into)
+    pub fn validate_checksum(&self) -> crate::Result<HashSet<PathBuf>> {
+        let managed_files = self.directory.list_managed_files();
+        let active_segments_files: HashSet<PathBuf> = self
+            .searchable_segment_metas()?
+            .iter()
+            .flat_map(|segment_meta| segment_meta.list_files())
+            .collect();
+        let active_existing_files: HashSet<&PathBuf> =
+            active_segments_files.intersection(&managed_files).collect();
+
+        let mut damaged_files = HashSet::new();
+        for path in active_existing_files {
+            if !self.directory.validate_checksum(path)? {
+                damaged_files.insert((*path).clone());
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(damaged_files)
     }
 }
 
@@ -382,11 +551,14 @@ impl fmt::Debug for Index {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use crate::directory::RAMDirectory;
     use crate::schema::Field;
     use crate::schema::{Schema, INDEXED, TEXT};
     use crate::IndexReader;
     use crate::ReloadPolicy;
+    use crate::{
+        directory::{RamDirectory, WatchCallback},
+        IndexSettings,
+    };
     use crate::{Directory, Index};
 
     #[test]
@@ -405,41 +577,66 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn test_index_exists() {
-        let directory = RAMDirectory::create();
-        assert!(!Index::exists(&directory));
-        assert!(Index::create(directory.clone(), throw_away_schema()).is_ok());
-        assert!(Index::exists(&directory));
+        let directory = RamDirectory::create();
+        assert!(!Index::exists(&directory).unwrap());
+        assert!(Index::create(
+            directory.clone(),
+            throw_away_schema(),
+            IndexSettings::default()
+        )
+        .is_ok());
+        assert!(Index::exists(&directory).unwrap());
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn open_or_create_should_create() {
-        let directory = RAMDirectory::create();
-        assert!(!Index::exists(&directory));
+        let directory = RamDirectory::create();
+        assert!(!Index::exists(&directory).unwrap());
         assert!(Index::open_or_create(directory.clone(), throw_away_schema()).is_ok());
-        assert!(Index::exists(&directory));
+        assert!(Index::exists(&directory).unwrap());
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn open_or_create_should_open() {
-        let directory = RAMDirectory::create();
-        assert!(Index::create(directory.clone(), throw_away_schema()).is_ok());
-        assert!(Index::exists(&directory));
+        let directory = RamDirectory::create();
+        assert!(Index::create(
+            directory.clone(),
+            throw_away_schema(),
+            IndexSettings::default()
+        )
+        .is_ok());
+        assert!(Index::exists(&directory).unwrap());
         assert!(Index::open_or_create(directory, throw_away_schema()).is_ok());
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn create_should_wipeoff_existing() {
-        let directory = RAMDirectory::create();
-        assert!(Index::create(directory.clone(), throw_away_schema()).is_ok());
-        assert!(Index::exists(&directory));
-        assert!(Index::create(directory.clone(), Schema::builder().build()).is_ok());
+        let directory = RamDirectory::create();
+        assert!(Index::create(
+            directory.clone(),
+            throw_away_schema(),
+            IndexSettings::default()
+        )
+        .is_ok());
+        assert!(Index::exists(&directory).unwrap());
+        assert!(Index::create(
+            directory,
+            Schema::builder().build(),
+            IndexSettings::default()
+        )
+        .is_ok());
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn open_or_create_exists_but_schema_does_not_match() {
-        let directory = RAMDirectory::create();
-        assert!(Index::create(directory.clone(), throw_away_schema()).is_ok());
-        assert!(Index::exists(&directory));
+        let directory = RamDirectory::create();
+        assert!(Index::create(
+            directory.clone(),
+            throw_away_schema(),
+            IndexSettings::default()
+        )
+        .is_ok());
+        assert!(Index::exists(&directory).unwrap());
         assert!(Index::open_or_create(directory.clone(), throw_away_schema()).is_ok());
         let err = Index::open_or_create(directory, Schema::builder().build());
         assert_eq!(
@@ -493,28 +690,28 @@ mod tests {
         }
 
         #[test]
-        fn test_index_manual_policy_mmap() {
+        fn test_index_manual_policy_mmap() -> crate::Result<()> {
             let schema = throw_away_schema();
             let field = schema.get_field("num_likes").unwrap();
-            let mut index = Index::create_from_tempdir(schema).unwrap();
-            let mut writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
-            writer.commit().unwrap();
+            let mut index = Index::create_from_tempdir(schema)?;
+            let mut writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+            writer.commit()?;
             let reader = index
                 .reader_builder()
                 .reload_policy(ReloadPolicy::Manual)
-                .try_into()
-                .unwrap();
+                .try_into()?;
             assert_eq!(reader.searcher().num_docs(), 0);
             writer.add_document(doc!(field=>1u64));
             let (sender, receiver) = crossbeam::channel::unbounded();
-            let _handle = index.directory_mut().watch(Box::new(move || {
+            let _handle = index.directory_mut().watch(WatchCallback::new(move || {
                 let _ = sender.send(());
             }));
-            writer.commit().unwrap();
+            writer.commit()?;
             assert!(receiver.recv().is_ok());
             assert_eq!(reader.searcher().num_docs(), 0);
-            reader.reload().unwrap();
+            reader.reload()?;
             assert_eq!(reader.searcher().num_docs(), 1);
+            Ok(())
         }
 
         #[test]
@@ -534,23 +731,35 @@ mod tests {
             test_index_on_commit_reload_policy_aux(field, &write_index, &reader);
         }
     }
-
     fn test_index_on_commit_reload_policy_aux(field: Field, index: &Index, reader: &IndexReader) {
         let mut reader_index = reader.index();
         let (sender, receiver) = crossbeam::channel::unbounded();
-        let _watch_handle = reader_index.directory_mut().watch(Box::new(move || {
-            let _ = sender.send(());
-        }));
-        let mut writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let _watch_handle = reader_index
+            .directory_mut()
+            .watch(WatchCallback::new(move || {
+                let _ = sender.send(());
+            }));
+        let mut writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         assert_eq!(reader.searcher().num_docs(), 0);
         writer.add_document(doc!(field=>1u64));
         writer.commit().unwrap();
-        assert!(receiver.recv().is_ok());
-        assert_eq!(reader.searcher().num_docs(), 1);
+        // We need a loop here because it is possible for notify to send more than
+        // one modify event. It was observed on CI on MacOS.
+        loop {
+            assert!(receiver.recv().is_ok());
+            if reader.searcher().num_docs() == 1 {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
         writer.add_document(doc!(field=>2u64));
         writer.commit().unwrap();
-        assert!(receiver.recv().is_ok());
-        assert_eq!(reader.searcher().num_docs(), 2);
+        // ... Same as above
+        loop {
+            assert!(receiver.recv().is_ok());
+            if reader.searcher().num_docs() == 2 {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     // This test will not pass on windows, because windows
@@ -558,17 +767,17 @@ mod tests {
     #[cfg(not(target_os = "windows"))]
     #[test]
     fn garbage_collect_works_as_intended() {
-        let directory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory = RamDirectory::create();
         let schema = throw_away_schema();
         let field = schema.get_field("num_likes").unwrap();
-        let index = Index::create(directory.clone(), schema).unwrap();
+        let index = Index::create(directory.clone(), schema, IndexSettings::default()).unwrap();
 
         let mut writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(8, 24_000_000).unwrap();
         for i in 0u64..8_000u64 {
             writer.add_document(doc!(field => i));
         }
         let (sender, receiver) = crossbeam::channel::unbounded();
-        let _handle = directory.watch(Box::new(move || {
+        let _handle = directory.watch(WatchCallback::new(move || {
             let _ = sender.send(());
         }));
         writer.commit().unwrap();

src/core/index_meta.rs

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 use super::SegmentComponent;
-use crate::core::SegmentId;
 use crate::schema::Schema;
 use crate::Opstamp;
+use crate::{core::SegmentId, store::Compressor};
 use census::{Inventory, TrackedObject};
-use serde;
-use serde_json;
-use std::collections::HashSet;
-use std::fmt;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::{collections::HashSet, sync::atomic::AtomicBool};
+use std::{fmt, sync::Arc};
 
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 struct DeleteMeta {
@@ -34,6 +33,7 @@ impl SegmentMetaInventory {
         let inner = InnerSegmentMeta {
             segment_id,
             max_doc,
+            include_temp_doc_store: Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(true)),
             deletes: None,
         };
         SegmentMeta::from(self.inventory.track(inner))
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ impl SegmentMeta {
         self.tracked.segment_id
     }
 
+    /// Removes the Component::TempStore from the alive list and
+    /// therefore marks the temp docstore file to be deleted by
+    /// the garbage collection.
+    pub fn untrack_temp_docstore(&self) {
+        self.tracked
+            .include_temp_doc_store
+            .store(false, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
+    }
+
     /// Returns the number of deleted documents.
     pub fn num_deleted_docs(&self) -> u32 {
         self.tracked
@@ -92,14 +101,26 @@ impl SegmentMeta {
 
     /// Returns the list of files that
     /// are required for the segment meta.
+    /// Note: Some of the returned files may not exist depending on the state of the segment.
     ///
     /// This is useful as the way tantivy removes files
     /// is by removing all files that have been created by tantivy
     /// and are not used by any segment anymore.
     pub fn list_files(&self) -> HashSet<PathBuf> {
-        SegmentComponent::iterator()
-            .map(|component| self.relative_path(*component))
-            .collect::<HashSet<PathBuf>>()
+        if self
+            .tracked
+            .include_temp_doc_store
+            .load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed)
+        {
+            SegmentComponent::iterator()
+                .map(|component| self.relative_path(*component))
+                .collect::<HashSet<PathBuf>>()
+        } else {
+            SegmentComponent::iterator()
+                .filter(|comp| *comp != &SegmentComponent::TempStore)
+                .map(|component| self.relative_path(*component))
+                .collect::<HashSet<PathBuf>>()
+        }
     }
 
     /// Returns the relative path of a component of our segment.
@@ -109,14 +130,14 @@ impl SegmentMeta {
     pub fn relative_path(&self, component: SegmentComponent) -> PathBuf {
         let mut path = self.id().uuid_string();
         path.push_str(&*match component {
-            SegmentComponent::POSTINGS => ".idx".to_string(),
-            SegmentComponent::POSITIONS => ".pos".to_string(),
-            SegmentComponent::POSITIONSSKIP => ".posidx".to_string(),
-            SegmentComponent::TERMS => ".term".to_string(),
-            SegmentComponent::STORE => ".store".to_string(),
-            SegmentComponent::FASTFIELDS => ".fast".to_string(),
-            SegmentComponent::FIELDNORMS => ".fieldnorm".to_string(),
-            SegmentComponent::DELETE => format!(".{}.del", self.delete_opstamp().unwrap_or(0)),
+            SegmentComponent::Postings => ".idx".to_string(),
+            SegmentComponent::Positions => ".pos".to_string(),
+            SegmentComponent::Terms => ".term".to_string(),
+            SegmentComponent::Store => ".store".to_string(),
+            SegmentComponent::TempStore => ".store.temp".to_string(),
+            SegmentComponent::FastFields => ".fast".to_string(),
+            SegmentComponent::FieldNorms => ".fieldnorm".to_string(),
+            SegmentComponent::Delete => format!(".{}.del", self.delete_opstamp().unwrap_or(0)),
         });
         PathBuf::from(path)
     }
@@ -161,6 +182,7 @@ impl SegmentMeta {
             segment_id: inner_meta.segment_id,
             max_doc,
             deletes: None,
+            include_temp_doc_store: Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(true)),
         });
         SegmentMeta { tracked }
     }
@@ -174,6 +196,7 @@ impl SegmentMeta {
         let tracked = self.tracked.map(move |inner_meta| InnerSegmentMeta {
             segment_id: inner_meta.segment_id,
             max_doc: inner_meta.max_doc,
+            include_temp_doc_store: Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(true)),
             deletes: Some(delete_meta),
         });
         SegmentMeta { tracked }
@@ -185,6 +208,14 @@ struct InnerSegmentMeta {
     segment_id: SegmentId,
     max_doc: u32,
     deletes: Option<DeleteMeta>,
+    /// If you want to avoid the SegmentComponent::TempStore file to be covered by
+    /// garbage collection and deleted, set this to true. This is used during merge.
+    #[serde(skip)]
+    #[serde(default = "default_temp_store")]
+    pub(crate) include_temp_doc_store: Arc<AtomicBool>,
+}
+fn default_temp_store() -> Arc<AtomicBool> {
+    Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false))
 }
 
 impl InnerSegmentMeta {
@@ -195,6 +226,51 @@ impl InnerSegmentMeta {
     }
 }
 
+/// Search Index Settings.
+///
+/// Contains settings which are applied on the whole
+/// index, like presort documents.
+#[derive(Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub struct IndexSettings {
+    /// Sorts the documents by information
+    /// provided in `IndexSortByField`
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub sort_by_field: Option<IndexSortByField>,
+    /// The `Compressor` used to compress the doc store.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub docstore_compression: Compressor,
+}
+/// Settings to presort the documents in an index
+///
+/// Presorting documents can greatly performance
+/// in some scenarios, by applying top n
+/// optimizations.
+#[derive(Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub struct IndexSortByField {
+    /// The field to sort the documents by
+    pub field: String,
+    /// The order to sort the documents by
+    pub order: Order,
+}
+/// The order to sort by
+#[derive(Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, Eq, PartialEq)]
+pub enum Order {
+    /// Ascending Order
+    Asc,
+    /// Descending Order
+    Desc,
+}
+impl Order {
+    /// return if the Order is ascending
+    pub fn is_asc(&self) -> bool {
+        self == &Order::Asc
+    }
+    /// return if the Order is descending
+    pub fn is_desc(&self) -> bool {
+        self == &Order::Desc
+    }
+}
+
 /// Meta information about the `Index`.
 ///
 /// This object is serialized on disk in the `meta.json` file.
@@ -205,6 +281,9 @@ impl InnerSegmentMeta {
 ///
 #[derive(Clone, Serialize)]
 pub struct IndexMeta {
+    /// `IndexSettings` to configure index options.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub index_settings: IndexSettings,
     /// List of `SegmentMeta` informations associated to each finalized segment of the index.
     pub segments: Vec<SegmentMeta>,
     /// Index `Schema`
@@ -214,7 +293,7 @@ pub struct IndexMeta {
     #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     /// Payload associated to the last commit.
     ///
-    /// Upon commit, clients can optionally add a small `Striing` payload to their commit
+    /// Upon commit, clients can optionally add a small `String` payload to their commit
     /// to help identify this commit.
     /// This payload is entirely unused by tantivy.
     pub payload: Option<String>,
@@ -223,6 +302,8 @@ pub struct IndexMeta {
 #[derive(Deserialize)]
 struct UntrackedIndexMeta {
     pub segments: Vec<InnerSegmentMeta>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub index_settings: IndexSettings,
     pub schema: Schema,
     pub opstamp: Opstamp,
     #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
@@ -232,6 +313,7 @@ struct UntrackedIndexMeta {
 impl UntrackedIndexMeta {
     pub fn track(self, inventory: &SegmentMetaInventory) -> IndexMeta {
         IndexMeta {
+            index_settings: self.index_settings,
             segments: self
                 .segments
                 .into_iter()
@@ -252,6 +334,7 @@ impl IndexMeta {
     /// Opstamp will the value `0u64`.
     pub fn with_schema(schema: Schema) -> IndexMeta {
         IndexMeta {
+            index_settings: IndexSettings::default(),
             segments: vec![],
             schema,
             opstamp: 0u64,
@@ -283,8 +366,10 @@ impl fmt::Debug for IndexMeta {
 mod tests {
 
     use super::IndexMeta;
-    use crate::schema::{Schema, TEXT};
-    use serde_json;
+    use crate::{
+        schema::{Schema, TEXT},
+        IndexSettings, IndexSortByField, Order,
+    };
 
     #[test]
     fn test_serialize_metas() {
@@ -294,6 +379,13 @@ mod tests {
             schema_builder.build()
         };
         let index_metas = IndexMeta {
+            index_settings: IndexSettings {
+                sort_by_field: Some(IndexSortByField {
+                    field: "text".to_string(),
+                    order: Order::Asc,
+                }),
+                ..Default::default()
+            },
             segments: Vec::new(),
             schema,
             opstamp: 0u64,
@@ -302,7 +394,7 @@ mod tests {
         let json = serde_json::ser::to_string(&index_metas).expect("serialization failed");
         assert_eq!(
             json,
-            r#"{"segments":[],"schema":[{"name":"text","type":"text","options":{"indexing":{"record":"position","tokenizer":"default"},"stored":false}}],"opstamp":0}"#
+            r#"{"index_settings":{"sort_by_field":{"field":"text","order":"Asc"},"docstore_compression":"lz4"},"segments":[],"schema":[{"name":"text","type":"text","options":{"indexing":{"record":"position","tokenizer":"default"},"stored":false}}],"opstamp":0}"#
         );
     }
 }

src/core/inverted_index_reader.rs

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-use crate::common::BinarySerializable;
-use crate::directory::ReadOnlySource;
+use std::io;
+
+use crate::directory::FileSlice;
 use crate::positions::PositionReader;
 use crate::postings::TermInfo;
 use crate::postings::{BlockSegmentPostings, SegmentPostings};
-use crate::schema::FieldType;
 use crate::schema::IndexRecordOption;
 use crate::schema::Term;
 use crate::termdict::TermDictionary;
-use owned_read::OwnedRead;
+use common::BinarySerializable;
 
 /// The inverted index reader is in charge of accessing
 /// the inverted index associated to a specific field.
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use owned_read::OwnedRead;
 ///
 /// It is safe to delete the segment associated to
 /// an `InvertedIndexReader`. As long as it is open,
-/// the `ReadOnlySource` it is relying on should
+/// the `FileSlice` it is relying on should
 /// stay available.
 ///
 ///
@@ -24,9 +24,8 @@ use owned_read::OwnedRead;
 /// the `SegmentReader`'s [`.inverted_index(...)`] method
 pub struct InvertedIndexReader {
     termdict: TermDictionary,
-    postings_source: ReadOnlySource,
-    positions_source: ReadOnlySource,
-    positions_idx_source: ReadOnlySource,
+    postings_file_slice: FileSlice,
+    positions_file_slice: FileSlice,
     record_option: IndexRecordOption,
     total_num_tokens: u64,
 }
@@ -35,42 +34,35 @@ impl InvertedIndexReader {
     #[cfg_attr(feature = "cargo-clippy", allow(clippy::needless_pass_by_value))] // for symmetry
     pub(crate) fn new(
         termdict: TermDictionary,
-        postings_source: ReadOnlySource,
-        positions_source: ReadOnlySource,
-        positions_idx_source: ReadOnlySource,
+        postings_file_slice: FileSlice,
+        positions_file_slice: FileSlice,
         record_option: IndexRecordOption,
-    ) -> InvertedIndexReader {
-        let total_num_tokens_data = postings_source.slice(0, 8);
-        let mut total_num_tokens_cursor = total_num_tokens_data.as_slice();
-        let total_num_tokens = u64::deserialize(&mut total_num_tokens_cursor).unwrap_or(0u64);
-        InvertedIndexReader {
+    ) -> io::Result<InvertedIndexReader> {
+        let (total_num_tokens_slice, postings_body) = postings_file_slice.split(8);
+        let total_num_tokens = u64::deserialize(&mut total_num_tokens_slice.read_bytes()?)?;
+        Ok(InvertedIndexReader {
             termdict,
-            postings_source: postings_source.slice_from(8),
-            positions_source,
-            positions_idx_source,
+            postings_file_slice: postings_body,
+            positions_file_slice,
             record_option,
             total_num_tokens,
-        }
+        })
     }
 
     /// Creates an empty `InvertedIndexReader` object, which
     /// contains no terms at all.
-    pub fn empty(field_type: &FieldType) -> InvertedIndexReader {
-        let record_option = field_type
-            .get_index_record_option()
-            .unwrap_or(IndexRecordOption::Basic);
+    pub fn empty(record_option: IndexRecordOption) -> InvertedIndexReader {
         InvertedIndexReader {
-            termdict: TermDictionary::empty(&field_type),
-            postings_source: ReadOnlySource::empty(),
-            positions_source: ReadOnlySource::empty(),
-            positions_idx_source: ReadOnlySource::empty(),
+            termdict: TermDictionary::empty(),
+            postings_file_slice: FileSlice::empty(),
+            positions_file_slice: FileSlice::empty(),
             record_option,
             total_num_tokens: 0u64,
         }
     }
 
     /// Returns the term info associated with the term.
-    pub fn get_term_info(&self, term: &Term) -> Option<TermInfo> {
+    pub fn get_term_info(&self, term: &Term) -> io::Result<Option<TermInfo>> {
         self.termdict.get(term.value_bytes())
     }
 
@@ -93,12 +85,12 @@ impl InvertedIndexReader {
         &self,
         term_info: &TermInfo,
         block_postings: &mut BlockSegmentPostings,
-    ) {
-        let offset = term_info.postings_offset as usize;
-        let end_source = self.postings_source.len();
-        let postings_slice = self.postings_source.slice(offset, end_source);
-        let postings_reader = OwnedRead::new(postings_slice);
-        block_postings.reset(term_info.doc_freq, postings_reader);
+    ) -> io::Result<()> {
+        let postings_slice = self
+            .postings_file_slice
+            .slice(term_info.postings_range.clone());
+        block_postings.reset(term_info.doc_freq, postings_slice.read_bytes()?);
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     /// Returns a block postings given a `Term`.
@@ -109,9 +101,10 @@ impl InvertedIndexReader {
         &self,
         term: &Term,
         option: IndexRecordOption,
-    ) -> Option<BlockSegmentPostings> {
-        self.get_term_info(term)
+    ) -> io::Result<Option<BlockSegmentPostings>> {
+        self.get_term_info(term)?
             .map(move |term_info| self.read_block_postings_from_terminfo(&term_info, option))
+            .transpose()
     }
 
     /// Returns a block postings given a `term_info`.
@@ -122,12 +115,13 @@ impl InvertedIndexReader {
         &self,
         term_info: &TermInfo,
         requested_option: IndexRecordOption,
-    ) -> BlockSegmentPostings {
-        let offset = term_info.postings_offset as usize;
-        let postings_data = self.postings_source.slice_from(offset);
-        BlockSegmentPostings::from_data(
+    ) -> io::Result<BlockSegmentPostings> {
+        let postings_data = self
+            .postings_file_slice
+            .slice(term_info.postings_range.clone());
+        BlockSegmentPostings::open(
             term_info.doc_freq,
-            OwnedRead::new(postings_data),
+            postings_data,
             self.record_option,
             requested_option,
         )
@@ -141,20 +135,23 @@ impl InvertedIndexReader {
         &self,
         term_info: &TermInfo,
         option: IndexRecordOption,
-    ) -> SegmentPostings {
-        let block_postings = self.read_block_postings_from_terminfo(term_info, option);
-        let position_stream = {
+    ) -> io::Result<SegmentPostings> {
+        let block_postings = self.read_block_postings_from_terminfo(term_info, option)?;
+        let position_reader = {
             if option.has_positions() {
-                let position_reader = self.positions_source.clone();
-                let skip_reader = self.positions_idx_source.clone();
-                let position_reader =
-                    PositionReader::new(position_reader, skip_reader, term_info.positions_idx);
+                let positions_data = self
+                    .positions_file_slice
+                    .read_bytes_slice(term_info.positions_range.clone())?;
+                let position_reader = PositionReader::open(positions_data)?;
                 Some(position_reader)
             } else {
                 None
             }
         };
-        SegmentPostings::from_block_postings(block_postings, position_stream)
+        Ok(SegmentPostings::from_block_postings(
+            block_postings,
+            position_reader,
+        ))
     }
 
     /// Returns the total number of tokens recorded for all documents
@@ -173,24 +170,31 @@ impl InvertedIndexReader {
     /// For instance, requesting `IndexRecordOption::Freq` for a
     /// `TextIndexingOptions` that does not index position will return a `SegmentPostings`
     /// with `DocId`s and frequencies.
-    pub fn read_postings(&self, term: &Term, option: IndexRecordOption) -> Option<SegmentPostings> {
-        self.get_term_info(term)
+    pub fn read_postings(
+        &self,
+        term: &Term,
+        option: IndexRecordOption,
+    ) -> io::Result<Option<SegmentPostings>> {
+        self.get_term_info(term)?
             .map(move |term_info| self.read_postings_from_terminfo(&term_info, option))
+            .transpose()
     }
 
     pub(crate) fn read_postings_no_deletes(
         &self,
         term: &Term,
         option: IndexRecordOption,
-    ) -> Option<SegmentPostings> {
-        self.get_term_info(term)
+    ) -> io::Result<Option<SegmentPostings>> {
+        self.get_term_info(term)?
             .map(|term_info| self.read_postings_from_terminfo(&term_info, option))
+            .transpose()
     }
 
     /// Returns the number of documents containing the term.
-    pub fn doc_freq(&self, term: &Term) -> u32 {
-        self.get_term_info(term)
+    pub fn doc_freq(&self, term: &Term) -> io::Result<u32> {
+        Ok(self
+            .get_term_info(term)?
             .map(|term_info| term_info.doc_freq)
-            .unwrap_or(0u32)
+            .unwrap_or(0u32))
     }
 }

src/core/mod.rs

@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@ mod segment_id;
 mod segment_reader;
 
 pub use self::executor::Executor;
-pub use self::index::Index;
-pub use self::index_meta::{IndexMeta, SegmentMeta, SegmentMetaInventory};
+pub use self::index::{Index, IndexBuilder};
+pub use self::index_meta::{
+    IndexMeta, IndexSettings, IndexSortByField, Order, SegmentMeta, SegmentMetaInventory,
+};
 pub use self::inverted_index_reader::InvertedIndexReader;
 pub use self::searcher::Searcher;
 pub use self::segment::Segment;
-pub use self::segment::SerializableSegment;
 pub use self::segment_component::SegmentComponent;
 pub use self::segment_id::SegmentId;
 pub use self::segment_reader::SegmentReader;

src/core/searcher.rs

@@ -1,42 +1,17 @@
 use crate::collector::Collector;
-use crate::collector::SegmentCollector;
 use crate::core::Executor;
-use crate::core::InvertedIndexReader;
+
 use crate::core::SegmentReader;
 use crate::query::Query;
-use crate::query::Scorer;
-use crate::query::Weight;
 use crate::schema::Document;
 use crate::schema::Schema;
-use crate::schema::{Field, Term};
+use crate::schema::Term;
 use crate::space_usage::SearcherSpaceUsage;
 use crate::store::StoreReader;
-use crate::termdict::TermMerger;
 use crate::DocAddress;
 use crate::Index;
-use crate::Result;
-use std::fmt;
-use std::sync::Arc;
 
-fn collect_segment<C: Collector>(
-    collector: &C,
-    weight: &dyn Weight,
-    segment_ord: u32,
-    segment_reader: &SegmentReader,
-) -> Result<C::Fruit> {
-    let mut scorer = weight.scorer(segment_reader)?;
-    let mut segment_collector = collector.for_segment(segment_ord as u32, segment_reader)?;
-    if let Some(delete_bitset) = segment_reader.delete_bitset() {
-        scorer.for_each(&mut |doc, score| {
-            if delete_bitset.is_alive(doc) {
-                segment_collector.collect(doc, score);
-            }
-        });
-    } else {
-        scorer.for_each(&mut |doc, score| segment_collector.collect(doc, score));
-    }
-    Ok(segment_collector.harvest())
-}
+use std::{fmt, io};
 
 /// Holds a list of `SegmentReader`s ready for search.
 ///
@@ -56,17 +31,17 @@ impl Searcher {
         schema: Schema,
         index: Index,
         segment_readers: Vec<SegmentReader>,
-    ) -> Searcher {
-        let store_readers = segment_readers
+    ) -> io::Result<Searcher> {
+        let store_readers: Vec<StoreReader> = segment_readers
             .iter()
             .map(SegmentReader::get_store_reader)
-            .collect();
-        Searcher {
+            .collect::<io::Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
+        Ok(Searcher {
             schema,
             index,
             segment_readers,
             store_readers,
-        }
+        })
     }
 
     /// Returns the `Index` associated to the `Searcher`
@@ -78,10 +53,9 @@ impl Searcher {
     ///
     /// The searcher uses the segment ordinal to route the
     /// the request to the right `Segment`.
-    pub fn doc(&self, doc_address: DocAddress) -> Result<Document> {
-        let DocAddress(segment_local_id, doc_id) = doc_address;
-        let store_reader = &self.store_readers[segment_local_id as usize];
-        store_reader.get(doc_id)
+    pub fn doc(&self, doc_address: DocAddress) -> crate::Result<Document> {
+        let store_reader = &self.store_readers[doc_address.segment_ord as usize];
+        store_reader.get(doc_address.doc_id)
     }
 
     /// Access the schema associated to the index of this searcher.
@@ -99,13 +73,14 @@ impl Searcher {
 
     /// Return the overall number of documents containing
     /// the given term.
-    pub fn doc_freq(&self, term: &Term) -> u64 {
-        self.segment_readers
-            .iter()
-            .map(|segment_reader| {
-                u64::from(segment_reader.inverted_index(term.field()).doc_freq(term))
-            })
-            .sum::<u64>()
+    pub fn doc_freq(&self, term: &Term) -> crate::Result<u64> {
+        let mut total_doc_freq = 0;
+        for segment_reader in &self.segment_readers {
+            let inverted_index = segment_reader.inverted_index(term.field())?;
+            let doc_freq = inverted_index.doc_freq(term)?;
+            total_doc_freq += u64::from(doc_freq);
+        }
+        Ok(total_doc_freq)
     }
 
     /// Return the list of segment readers
@@ -132,7 +107,11 @@ impl Searcher {
     ///
     ///  Finally, the Collector merges each of the child collectors into itself for result usability
     ///  by the caller.
-    pub fn search<C: Collector>(&self, query: &dyn Query, collector: &C) -> Result<C::Fruit> {
+    pub fn search<C: Collector>(
+        &self,
+        query: &dyn Query,
+        collector: &C,
+    ) -> crate::Result<C::Fruit> {
         let executor = self.index.search_executor();
         self.search_with_executor(query, collector, executor)
     }
@@ -154,62 +133,26 @@ impl Searcher {
         query: &dyn Query,
         collector: &C,
         executor: &Executor,
-    ) -> Result<C::Fruit> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<C::Fruit> {
         let scoring_enabled = collector.requires_scoring();
         let weight = query.weight(self, scoring_enabled)?;
         let segment_readers = self.segment_readers();
         let fruits = executor.map(
             |(segment_ord, segment_reader)| {
-                collect_segment(
-                    collector,
-                    weight.as_ref(),
-                    segment_ord as u32,
-                    segment_reader,
-                )
+                collector.collect_segment(weight.as_ref(), segment_ord as u32, segment_reader)
             },
             segment_readers.iter().enumerate(),
         )?;
         collector.merge_fruits(fruits)
     }
 
-    /// Return the field searcher associated to a `Field`.
-    pub fn field(&self, field: Field) -> FieldSearcher {
-        let inv_index_readers = self
-            .segment_readers
-            .iter()
-            .map(|segment_reader| segment_reader.inverted_index(field))
-            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-        FieldSearcher::new(inv_index_readers)
-    }
-
     /// Summarize total space usage of this searcher.
-    pub fn space_usage(&self) -> SearcherSpaceUsage {
+    pub fn space_usage(&self) -> io::Result<SearcherSpaceUsage> {
         let mut space_usage = SearcherSpaceUsage::new();
-        for segment_reader in self.segment_readers.iter() {
-            space_usage.add_segment(segment_reader.space_usage());
+        for segment_reader in &self.segment_readers {
+            space_usage.add_segment(segment_reader.space_usage()?);
         }
-        space_usage
-    }
-}
-
-pub struct FieldSearcher {
-    inv_index_readers: Vec<Arc<InvertedIndexReader>>,
-}
-
-impl FieldSearcher {
-    fn new(inv_index_readers: Vec<Arc<InvertedIndexReader>>) -> FieldSearcher {
-        FieldSearcher { inv_index_readers }
-    }
-
-    /// Returns a Stream over all of the sorted unique terms of
-    /// for the given field.
-    pub fn terms(&self) -> TermMerger<'_> {
-        let term_streamers: Vec<_> = self
-            .inv_index_readers
-            .iter()
-            .map(|inverted_index| inverted_index.terms().stream())
-            .collect();
-        TermMerger::new(term_streamers)
+        Ok(space_usage)
     }
 }
 

src/core/segment.rs

@@ -4,14 +4,11 @@ use crate::core::SegmentId;
 use crate::core::SegmentMeta;
 use crate::directory::error::{OpenReadError, OpenWriteError};
 use crate::directory::Directory;
-use crate::directory::{ReadOnlySource, WritePtr};
-use crate::indexer::segment_serializer::SegmentSerializer;
+use crate::directory::{FileSlice, WritePtr};
 use crate::schema::Schema;
 use crate::Opstamp;
-use crate::Result;
 use std::fmt;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
-use std::result;
 
 /// A segment is a piece of the index.
 #[derive(Clone)]
@@ -26,15 +23,12 @@ impl fmt::Debug for Segment {
     }
 }
 
-/// Creates a new segment given an `Index` and a `SegmentId`
-///
-/// The function is here to make it private outside `tantivy`.
-/// #[doc(hidden)]
-pub fn create_segment(index: Index, meta: SegmentMeta) -> Segment {
-    Segment { index, meta }
-}
-
 impl Segment {
+    /// Creates a new segment given an `Index` and a `SegmentId`
+    pub(crate) fn for_index(index: Index, meta: SegmentMeta) -> Segment {
+        Segment { index, meta }
+    }
+
     /// Returns the index the segment belongs to.
     pub fn index(&self) -> &Index {
         &self.index
@@ -83,31 +77,15 @@ impl Segment {
     }
 
     /// Open one of the component file for a *regular* read.
-    pub fn open_read(
-        &self,
-        component: SegmentComponent,
-    ) -> result::Result<ReadOnlySource, OpenReadError> {
+    pub fn open_read(&self, component: SegmentComponent) -> Result<FileSlice, OpenReadError> {
         let path = self.relative_path(component);
-        let source = self.index.directory().open_read(&path)?;
-        Ok(source)
+        self.index.directory().open_read(&path)
     }
 
     /// Open one of the component file for *regular* write.
-    pub fn open_write(
-        &mut self,
-        component: SegmentComponent,
-    ) -> result::Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError> {
+    pub fn open_write(&mut self, component: SegmentComponent) -> Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError> {
         let path = self.relative_path(component);
         let write = self.index.directory_mut().open_write(&path)?;
         Ok(write)
     }
 }
-
-pub trait SerializableSegment {
-    /// Writes a view of a segment by pushing information
-    /// to the `SegmentSerializer`.
-    ///
-    /// # Returns
-    /// The number of documents in the segment.
-    fn write(&self, serializer: SegmentSerializer) -> Result<u32>;
-}

src/core/segment_component.rs

@@ -4,42 +4,42 @@ use std::slice;
 /// Each component is stored in its own file,
 /// using the pattern `segment_uuid`.`component_extension`,
 /// except the delete component that takes an `segment_uuid`.`delete_opstamp`.`component_extension`
-#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Eq, PartialEq)]
 pub enum SegmentComponent {
     /// Postings (or inverted list). Sorted lists of document ids, associated to terms
-    POSTINGS,
+    Postings,
     /// Positions of terms in each document.
-    POSITIONS,
-    /// Index to seek within the position file
-    POSITIONSSKIP,
+    Positions,
     /// Column-oriented random-access storage of fields.
-    FASTFIELDS,
+    FastFields,
     /// Stores the sum  of the length (in terms) of each field for each document.
     /// Field norms are stored as a special u64 fast field.
-    FIELDNORMS,
+    FieldNorms,
     /// Dictionary associating `Term`s to `TermInfo`s which is
     /// simply an address into the `postings` file and the `positions` file.
-    TERMS,
-    /// Row-oriented, LZ4-compressed storage of the documents.
+    Terms,
+    /// Row-oriented, compressed storage of the documents.
     /// Accessing a document from the store is relatively slow, as it
     /// requires to decompress the entire block it belongs to.
-    STORE,
+    Store,
+    /// Temporary storage of the documents, before streamed to `Store`.
+    TempStore,
     /// Bitset describing which document of the segment is deleted.
-    DELETE,
+    Delete,
 }
 
 impl SegmentComponent {
     /// Iterates through the components.
     pub fn iterator() -> slice::Iter<'static, SegmentComponent> {
         static SEGMENT_COMPONENTS: [SegmentComponent; 8] = [
-            SegmentComponent::POSTINGS,
-            SegmentComponent::POSITIONS,
-            SegmentComponent::POSITIONSSKIP,
-            SegmentComponent::FASTFIELDS,
-            SegmentComponent::FIELDNORMS,
-            SegmentComponent::TERMS,
-            SegmentComponent::STORE,
-            SegmentComponent::DELETE,
+            SegmentComponent::Postings,
+            SegmentComponent::Positions,
+            SegmentComponent::FastFields,
+            SegmentComponent::FieldNorms,
+            SegmentComponent::Terms,
+            SegmentComponent::Store,
+            SegmentComponent::TempStore,
+            SegmentComponent::Delete,
         ];
         SEGMENT_COMPONENTS.iter()
     }

src/core/segment_id.rs

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use uuid::Uuid;
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::error::Error;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 #[cfg(test)]
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ use std::sync::atomic;
 pub struct SegmentId(Uuid);
 
 #[cfg(test)]
-static AUTO_INC_COUNTER: Lazy<atomic::AtomicUsize> = Lazy::new(|| atomic::AtomicUsize::default());
+static AUTO_INC_COUNTER: Lazy<atomic::AtomicUsize> = Lazy::new(atomic::AtomicUsize::default);
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 const ZERO_ARRAY: [u8; 8] = [0u8; 8];
@@ -107,6 +108,12 @@ impl fmt::Debug for SegmentId {
     }
 }
 
+impl fmt::Display for SegmentId {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "Seg({:?})", self.short_uuid_string())
+    }
+}
+
 impl PartialOrd for SegmentId {
     fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<Ordering> {
         Some(self.cmp(other))

src/core/segment_reader.rs

@@ -1,27 +1,26 @@
-use crate::common::CompositeFile;
-use crate::common::HasLen;
 use crate::core::InvertedIndexReader;
 use crate::core::Segment;
 use crate::core::SegmentComponent;
 use crate::core::SegmentId;
-use crate::directory::ReadOnlySource;
-use crate::fastfield::DeleteBitSet;
+use crate::directory::CompositeFile;
+use crate::directory::FileSlice;
+use crate::error::DataCorruption;
+use crate::fastfield::AliveBitSet;
 use crate::fastfield::FacetReader;
 use crate::fastfield::FastFieldReaders;
-use crate::fieldnorm::FieldNormReader;
-use crate::schema::Field;
+use crate::fieldnorm::{FieldNormReader, FieldNormReaders};
 use crate::schema::FieldType;
 use crate::schema::Schema;
+use crate::schema::{Field, IndexRecordOption};
 use crate::space_usage::SegmentSpaceUsage;
 use crate::store::StoreReader;
 use crate::termdict::TermDictionary;
 use crate::DocId;
-use crate::Result;
 use fail::fail_point;
-use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::fmt;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::sync::RwLock;
+use std::{collections::HashMap, io};
 
 /// Entry point to access all of the datastructures of the `Segment`
 ///
@@ -33,9 +32,6 @@ use std::sync::RwLock;
 ///
 /// The segment reader has a very low memory footprint,
 /// as close to all of the memory data is mmapped.
-///
-///
-/// TODO fix not decoding docfreq
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct SegmentReader {
     inv_idx_reader_cache: Arc<RwLock<HashMap<Field, Arc<InvertedIndexReader>>>>,
@@ -47,29 +43,23 @@ pub struct SegmentReader {
     termdict_composite: CompositeFile,
     postings_composite: CompositeFile,
     positions_composite: CompositeFile,
-    positions_idx_composite: CompositeFile,
     fast_fields_readers: Arc<FastFieldReaders>,
-    fieldnorms_composite: CompositeFile,
+    fieldnorm_readers: FieldNormReaders,
 
-    store_source: ReadOnlySource,
-    delete_bitset_opt: Option<DeleteBitSet>,
+    store_file: FileSlice,
+    alive_bitset_opt: Option<AliveBitSet>,
     schema: Schema,
 }
 
 impl SegmentReader {
     /// Returns the highest document id ever attributed in
     /// this segment + 1.
-    /// Today, `tantivy` does not handle deletes, so it happens
-    /// to also be the number of documents in the index.
     pub fn max_doc(&self) -> DocId {
         self.max_doc
     }
 
-    /// Returns the number of documents.
+    /// Returns the number of alive documents.
     /// Deleted documents are not counted.
-    ///
-    /// Today, `tantivy` does not handle deletes so max doc and
-    /// num_docs are the same.
     pub fn num_docs(&self) -> DocId {
         self.num_docs
     }
@@ -82,14 +72,12 @@ impl SegmentReader {
     /// Return the number of documents that have been
     /// deleted in the segment.
     pub fn num_deleted_docs(&self) -> DocId {
-        self.delete_bitset()
-            .map(|delete_set| delete_set.len() as DocId)
-            .unwrap_or(0u32)
+        self.max_doc - self.num_docs
     }
 
     /// Returns true iff some of the documents of the segment have been deleted.
     pub fn has_deletes(&self) -> bool {
-        self.delete_bitset().is_some()
+        self.num_deleted_docs() > 0
     }
 
     /// Accessor to a segment's fast field reader given a field.
@@ -107,16 +95,24 @@ impl SegmentReader {
     }
 
     /// Accessor to the `FacetReader` associated to a given `Field`.
-    pub fn facet_reader(&self, field: Field) -> Option<FacetReader> {
+    pub fn facet_reader(&self, field: Field) -> crate::Result<FacetReader> {
         let field_entry = self.schema.get_field_entry(field);
-        if field_entry.field_type() != &FieldType::HierarchicalFacet {
-            return None;
+
+        match field_entry.field_type() {
+            FieldType::HierarchicalFacet(_) => {
+                let term_ords_reader = self.fast_fields().u64s(field)?;
+                let termdict = self
+                    .termdict_composite
+                    .open_read(field)
+                    .map(TermDictionary::open)
+                    .unwrap_or_else(|| Ok(TermDictionary::empty()))?;
+                Ok(FacetReader::new(term_ords_reader, termdict))
+            }
+            _ => Err(crate::TantivyError::InvalidArgument(format!(
+                "Field {:?} is not a facet field.",
+                field_entry.name()
+            ))),
         }
-        let term_ords_reader = self.fast_fields().u64s(field)?;
-        let termdict_source = self.termdict_composite.open_read(field)?;
-        let termdict = TermDictionary::from_source(&termdict_source);
-        let facet_reader = FacetReader::new(term_ords_reader, termdict);
-        Some(facet_reader)
     }
 
     /// Accessor to the segment's `Field norms`'s reader.
@@ -126,47 +122,37 @@ impl SegmentReader {
     ///
     /// They are simply stored as a fast field, serialized in
     /// the `.fieldnorm` file of the segment.
-    pub fn get_fieldnorms_reader(&self, field: Field) -> FieldNormReader {
-        if let Some(fieldnorm_source) = self.fieldnorms_composite.open_read(field) {
-            FieldNormReader::open(fieldnorm_source)
-        } else {
+    pub fn get_fieldnorms_reader(&self, field: Field) -> crate::Result<FieldNormReader> {
+        self.fieldnorm_readers.get_field(field)?.ok_or_else(|| {
             let field_name = self.schema.get_field_name(field);
             let err_msg = format!(
-                "Field norm not found for field {:?}. Was it market as indexed during indexing.",
+                "Field norm not found for field {:?}. Was it marked as indexed during indexing?",
                 field_name
             );
-            panic!(err_msg);
-        }
+            crate::TantivyError::SchemaError(err_msg)
+        })
     }
 
     /// Accessor to the segment's `StoreReader`.
-    pub fn get_store_reader(&self) -> StoreReader {
-        StoreReader::from_source(self.store_source.clone())
+    pub fn get_store_reader(&self) -> io::Result<StoreReader> {
+        StoreReader::open(self.store_file.clone())
     }
 
     /// Open a new segment for reading.
-    pub fn open(segment: &Segment) -> Result<SegmentReader> {
-        let termdict_source = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::TERMS)?;
-        let termdict_composite = CompositeFile::open(&termdict_source)?;
+    pub fn open(segment: &Segment) -> crate::Result<SegmentReader> {
+        let termdict_file = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::Terms)?;
+        let termdict_composite = CompositeFile::open(&termdict_file)?;
 
-        let store_source = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::STORE)?;
+        let store_file = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::Store)?;
 
         fail_point!("SegmentReader::open#middle");
 
-        let postings_source = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::POSTINGS)?;
-        let postings_composite = CompositeFile::open(&postings_source)?;
+        let postings_file = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::Postings)?;
+        let postings_composite = CompositeFile::open(&postings_file)?;
 
         let positions_composite = {
-            if let Ok(source) = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::POSITIONS) {
-                CompositeFile::open(&source)?
-            } else {
-                CompositeFile::empty()
-            }
-        };
-
-        let positions_idx_composite = {
-            if let Ok(source) = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::POSITIONSSKIP) {
-                CompositeFile::open(&source)?
+            if let Ok(positions_file) = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::Positions) {
+                CompositeFile::open(&positions_file)?
             } else {
                 CompositeFile::empty()
             }
@@ -174,34 +160,34 @@ impl SegmentReader {
 
         let schema = segment.schema();
 
-        let fast_fields_data = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::FASTFIELDS)?;
+        let fast_fields_data = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::FastFields)?;
         let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&fast_fields_data)?;
         let fast_field_readers =
-            Arc::new(FastFieldReaders::load_all(&schema, &fast_fields_composite)?);
+            Arc::new(FastFieldReaders::new(schema.clone(), fast_fields_composite));
 
-        let fieldnorms_data = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::FIELDNORMS)?;
-        let fieldnorms_composite = CompositeFile::open(&fieldnorms_data)?;
+        let fieldnorm_data = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::FieldNorms)?;
+        let fieldnorm_readers = FieldNormReaders::open(fieldnorm_data)?;
 
-        let delete_bitset_opt = if segment.meta().has_deletes() {
-            let delete_data = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::DELETE)?;
-            Some(DeleteBitSet::open(delete_data))
+        let alive_bitset_opt = if segment.meta().has_deletes() {
+            let alive_bitset_bytes = segment.open_read(SegmentComponent::Delete)?.read_bytes()?;
+            let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::open(alive_bitset_bytes);
+            Some(alive_bitset)
         } else {
             None
         };
 
         Ok(SegmentReader {
-            inv_idx_reader_cache: Arc::new(RwLock::new(HashMap::new())),
+            inv_idx_reader_cache: Default::default(),
             max_doc: segment.meta().max_doc(),
             num_docs: segment.meta().num_docs(),
             termdict_composite,
             postings_composite,
             fast_fields_readers: fast_field_readers,
-            fieldnorms_composite,
+            fieldnorm_readers,
             segment_id: segment.id(),
-            store_source,
-            delete_bitset_opt,
+            store_file,
+            alive_bitset_opt,
             positions_composite,
-            positions_idx_composite,
             schema,
         })
     }
@@ -213,58 +199,61 @@ impl SegmentReader {
     /// The field reader is in charge of iterating through the
     /// term dictionary associated to a specific field,
     /// and opening the posting list associated to any term.
-    pub fn inverted_index(&self, field: Field) -> Arc<InvertedIndexReader> {
+    ///
+    /// If the field is marked as index, a warn is logged and an empty `InvertedIndexReader`
+    /// is returned.
+    /// Similarly if the field is marked as indexed but no term has been indexed for the given
+    /// index. an empty `InvertedIndexReader` is returned (but no warning is logged).
+    pub fn inverted_index(&self, field: Field) -> crate::Result<Arc<InvertedIndexReader>> {
         if let Some(inv_idx_reader) = self
             .inv_idx_reader_cache
             .read()
             .expect("Lock poisoned. This should never happen")
             .get(&field)
         {
-            return Arc::clone(inv_idx_reader);
+            return Ok(Arc::clone(inv_idx_reader));
         }
         let field_entry = self.schema.get_field_entry(field);
         let field_type = field_entry.field_type();
         let record_option_opt = field_type.get_index_record_option();
 
         if record_option_opt.is_none() {
-            panic!("Field {:?} does not seem indexed.", field_entry.name());
+            warn!("Field {:?} does not seem indexed.", field_entry.name());
         }
 
-        let record_option = record_option_opt.unwrap();
+        let postings_file_opt = self.postings_composite.open_read(field);
 
-        let postings_source_opt = self.postings_composite.open_read(field);
-
-        if postings_source_opt.is_none() {
+        if postings_file_opt.is_none() || record_option_opt.is_none() {
             // no documents in the segment contained this field.
             // As a result, no data is associated to the inverted index.
             //
             // Returns an empty inverted index.
-            return Arc::new(InvertedIndexReader::empty(field_type));
+            let record_option = record_option_opt.unwrap_or(IndexRecordOption::Basic);
+            return Ok(Arc::new(InvertedIndexReader::empty(record_option)));
         }
 
-        let postings_source = postings_source_opt.unwrap();
+        let record_option = record_option_opt.unwrap();
+        let postings_file = postings_file_opt.unwrap();
 
-        let termdict_source = self.termdict_composite.open_read(field).expect(
-            "Failed to open field term dictionary in composite file. Is the field indexed?",
-        );
+        let termdict_file: FileSlice = self.termdict_composite.open_read(field)
+            .ok_or_else(||
+               DataCorruption::comment_only(format!("Failed to open field {:?}'s term dictionary in the composite file. Has the schema been modified?", field_entry.name()))
+            )?;
 
-        let positions_source = self
+        let positions_file = self
             .positions_composite
             .open_read(field)
-            .expect("Index corrupted. Failed to open field positions in composite file.");
-
-        let positions_idx_source = self
-            .positions_idx_composite
-            .open_read(field)
-            .expect("Index corrupted. Failed to open field positions in composite file.");
+            .ok_or_else(|| {
+                let error_msg = format!("Failed to open field {:?}'s positions in the composite file. Has the schema been modified?", field_entry.name());
+               DataCorruption::comment_only(error_msg)
+            })?;
 
         let inv_idx_reader = Arc::new(InvertedIndexReader::new(
-            TermDictionary::from_source(&termdict_source),
-            postings_source,
-            positions_source,
-            positions_idx_source,
+            TermDictionary::open(termdict_file)?,
+            postings_file,
+            positions_file,
             record_option,
-        ));
+        )?);
 
         // by releasing the lock in between, we may end up opening the inverting index
         // twice, but this is fine.
@@ -273,7 +262,7 @@ impl SegmentReader {
             .expect("Field reader cache lock poisoned. This should never happen.")
             .insert(field, Arc::clone(&inv_idx_reader));
 
-        inv_idx_reader
+        Ok(inv_idx_reader)
     }
 
     /// Returns the segment id
@@ -283,39 +272,42 @@ impl SegmentReader {
 
     /// Returns the bitset representing
     /// the documents that have been deleted.
-    pub fn delete_bitset(&self) -> Option<&DeleteBitSet> {
-        self.delete_bitset_opt.as_ref()
+    pub fn alive_bitset(&self) -> Option<&AliveBitSet> {
+        self.alive_bitset_opt.as_ref()
     }
 
     /// Returns true iff the `doc` is marked
     /// as deleted.
     pub fn is_deleted(&self, doc: DocId) -> bool {
-        self.delete_bitset()
+        self.alive_bitset()
             .map(|delete_set| delete_set.is_deleted(doc))
             .unwrap_or(false)
     }
 
     /// Returns an iterator that will iterate over the alive document ids
-    pub fn doc_ids_alive(&self) -> SegmentReaderAliveDocsIterator<'_> {
-        SegmentReaderAliveDocsIterator::new(&self)
+    pub fn doc_ids_alive(&self) -> Box<dyn Iterator<Item = DocId> + '_> {
+        if let Some(alive_bitset) = &self.alive_bitset_opt {
+            Box::new(alive_bitset.iter_alive())
+        } else {
+            Box::new(0u32..self.max_doc)
+        }
     }
 
     /// Summarize total space usage of this segment.
-    pub fn space_usage(&self) -> SegmentSpaceUsage {
-        SegmentSpaceUsage::new(
+    pub fn space_usage(&self) -> io::Result<SegmentSpaceUsage> {
+        Ok(SegmentSpaceUsage::new(
             self.num_docs(),
             self.termdict_composite.space_usage(),
             self.postings_composite.space_usage(),
             self.positions_composite.space_usage(),
-            self.positions_idx_composite.space_usage(),
             self.fast_fields_readers.space_usage(),
-            self.fieldnorms_composite.space_usage(),
-            self.get_store_reader().space_usage(),
-            self.delete_bitset_opt
+            self.fieldnorm_readers.space_usage(),
+            self.get_store_reader()?.space_usage(),
+            self.alive_bitset_opt
                 .as_ref()
-                .map(DeleteBitSet::space_usage)
+                .map(AliveBitSet::space_usage)
                 .unwrap_or(0),
-        )
+        ))
     }
 }
 
@@ -325,52 +317,6 @@ impl fmt::Debug for SegmentReader {
     }
 }
 
-/// Implements the iterator trait to allow easy iteration
-/// over non-deleted ("alive") DocIds in a SegmentReader
-pub struct SegmentReaderAliveDocsIterator<'a> {
-    reader: &'a SegmentReader,
-    max_doc: DocId,
-    current: DocId,
-}
-
-impl<'a> SegmentReaderAliveDocsIterator<'a> {
-    pub fn new(reader: &'a SegmentReader) -> SegmentReaderAliveDocsIterator<'a> {
-        SegmentReaderAliveDocsIterator {
-            reader,
-            max_doc: reader.max_doc(),
-            current: 0,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl<'a> Iterator for SegmentReaderAliveDocsIterator<'a> {
-    type Item = DocId;
-
-    fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
-        // TODO: Use TinySet (like in BitSetDocSet) to speed this process up
-        if self.current >= self.max_doc {
-            return None;
-        }
-
-        // find the next alive doc id
-        while self.reader.is_deleted(self.current) {
-            self.current += 1;
-
-            if self.current >= self.max_doc {
-                return None;
-            }
-        }
-
-        // capture the current alive DocId
-        let result = Some(self.current);
-
-        // move down the chain
-        self.current += 1;
-
-        result
-    }
-}
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
     use crate::core::Index;
@@ -378,7 +324,7 @@ mod test {
     use crate::DocId;
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_alive_docs_iterator() {
+    fn test_num_alive() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
         schema_builder.add_text_field("name", TEXT | STORED);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
@@ -386,26 +332,52 @@ mod test {
         let name = schema.get_field("name").unwrap();
 
         {
-            let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+            let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(name => "tantivy"));
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(name => "horse"));
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(name => "jockey"));
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(name => "cap"));
-
             // we should now have one segment with two docs
-            index_writer.commit().unwrap();
+            index_writer.delete_term(Term::from_field_text(name, "horse"));
+            index_writer.delete_term(Term::from_field_text(name, "cap"));
+
+            // ok, now we should have a deleted doc
+            index_writer.commit()?;
+        }
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        assert_eq!(2, searcher.segment_reader(0).num_docs());
+        assert_eq!(4, searcher.segment_reader(0).max_doc());
+        Ok(())
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_alive_docs_iterator() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        schema_builder.add_text_field("name", TEXT | STORED);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema.clone());
+        let name = schema.get_field("name").unwrap();
+
+        {
+            let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+            index_writer.add_document(doc!(name => "tantivy"));
+            index_writer.add_document(doc!(name => "horse"));
+            index_writer.add_document(doc!(name => "jockey"));
+            index_writer.add_document(doc!(name => "cap"));
+            // we should now have one segment with two docs
+            index_writer.commit()?;
         }
 
         {
-            let mut index_writer2 = index.writer(50_000_000).unwrap();
+            let mut index_writer2 = index.writer(50_000_000)?;
             index_writer2.delete_term(Term::from_field_text(name, "horse"));
             index_writer2.delete_term(Term::from_field_text(name, "cap"));
 
             // ok, now we should have a deleted doc
-            index_writer2.commit().unwrap();
+            index_writer2.commit()?;
         }
-        let searcher = index.reader().unwrap().searcher();
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
         let docs: Vec<DocId> = searcher.segment_reader(0).doc_ids_alive().collect();
         assert_eq!(vec![0u32, 2u32], docs);
+        Ok(())
     }
 }

src/directory/composite_file.rs

@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
-use crate::common::BinarySerializable;
-use crate::common::CountingWriter;
-use crate::common::VInt;
-use crate::directory::ReadOnlySource;
+use crate::directory::FileSlice;
 use crate::directory::{TerminatingWrite, WritePtr};
 use crate::schema::Field;
 use crate::space_usage::FieldUsage;
 use crate::space_usage::PerFieldSpaceUsage;
+use common::BinarySerializable;
+use common::CountingWriter;
+use common::HasLen;
+use common::VInt;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
-use std::io::Write;
-use std::io::{self, Read};
+use std::io::{self, Read, Write};
+use std::iter::ExactSizeIterator;
+use std::ops::Range;
 
 #[derive(Eq, PartialEq, Hash, Copy, Ord, PartialOrd, Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct FileAddr {
@@ -103,25 +105,26 @@ impl<W: TerminatingWrite + Write> CompositeWrite<W> {
 /// for each field.
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct CompositeFile {
-    data: ReadOnlySource,
-    offsets_index: HashMap<FileAddr, (usize, usize)>,
+    data: FileSlice,
+    offsets_index: HashMap<FileAddr, Range<usize>>,
 }
 
 impl CompositeFile {
     /// Opens a composite file stored in a given
-    /// `ReadOnlySource`.
-    pub fn open(data: &ReadOnlySource) -> io::Result<CompositeFile> {
+    /// `FileSlice`.
+    pub fn open(data: &FileSlice) -> io::Result<CompositeFile> {
         let end = data.len();
-        let footer_len_data = data.slice_from(end - 4);
+        let footer_len_data = data.slice_from(end - 4).read_bytes()?;
         let footer_len = u32::deserialize(&mut footer_len_data.as_slice())? as usize;
         let footer_start = end - 4 - footer_len;
-        let footer_data = data.slice(footer_start, footer_start + footer_len);
+        let footer_data = data
+            .slice(footer_start..footer_start + footer_len)
+            .read_bytes()?;
         let mut footer_buffer = footer_data.as_slice();
         let num_fields = VInt::deserialize(&mut footer_buffer)?.0 as usize;
 
         let mut file_addrs = vec![];
         let mut offsets = vec![];
-
         let mut field_index = HashMap::new();
 
         let mut offset = 0;
@@ -136,7 +139,7 @@ impl CompositeFile {
             let file_addr = file_addrs[i];
             let start_offset = offsets[i];
             let end_offset = offsets[i + 1];
-            field_index.insert(file_addr, (start_offset, end_offset));
+            field_index.insert(file_addr, start_offset..end_offset);
         }
 
         Ok(CompositeFile {
@@ -150,31 +153,31 @@ impl CompositeFile {
     pub fn empty() -> CompositeFile {
         CompositeFile {
             offsets_index: HashMap::new(),
-            data: ReadOnlySource::empty(),
+            data: FileSlice::empty(),
         }
     }
 
-    /// Returns the `ReadOnlySource` associated
+    /// Returns the `FileSlice` associated
     /// to a given `Field` and stored in a `CompositeFile`.
-    pub fn open_read(&self, field: Field) -> Option<ReadOnlySource> {
+    pub fn open_read(&self, field: Field) -> Option<FileSlice> {
         self.open_read_with_idx(field, 0)
     }
 
-    /// Returns the `ReadOnlySource` associated
+    /// Returns the `FileSlice` associated
     /// to a given `Field` and stored in a `CompositeFile`.
-    pub fn open_read_with_idx(&self, field: Field, idx: usize) -> Option<ReadOnlySource> {
+    pub fn open_read_with_idx(&self, field: Field, idx: usize) -> Option<FileSlice> {
         self.offsets_index
             .get(&FileAddr { field, idx })
-            .map(|&(from, to)| self.data.slice(from, to))
+            .map(|byte_range| self.data.slice(byte_range.clone()))
     }
 
     pub fn space_usage(&self) -> PerFieldSpaceUsage {
         let mut fields = HashMap::new();
-        for (&field_addr, &(start, end)) in self.offsets_index.iter() {
+        for (&field_addr, byte_range) in &self.offsets_index {
             fields
                 .entry(field_addr.field)
                 .or_insert_with(|| FieldUsage::empty(field_addr.field))
-                .add_field_idx(field_addr.idx, end - start);
+                .add_field_idx(field_addr.idx, byte_range.len());
         }
         PerFieldSpaceUsage::new(fields)
     }
@@ -184,54 +187,52 @@ impl CompositeFile {
 mod test {
 
     use super::{CompositeFile, CompositeWrite};
-    use crate::common::BinarySerializable;
-    use crate::common::VInt;
-    use crate::directory::{Directory, RAMDirectory};
+    use crate::directory::{Directory, RamDirectory};
     use crate::schema::Field;
+    use common::BinarySerializable;
+    use common::VInt;
     use std::io::Write;
     use std::path::Path;
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_composite_file() {
+    fn test_composite_file() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let path = Path::new("test_path");
-        let mut directory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory = RamDirectory::create();
         {
             let w = directory.open_write(path).unwrap();
             let mut composite_write = CompositeWrite::wrap(w);
-            {
-                let mut write_0 = composite_write.for_field(Field::from_field_id(0u32));
-                VInt(32431123u64).serialize(&mut write_0).unwrap();
-                write_0.flush().unwrap();
-            }
-
-            {
-                let mut write_4 = composite_write.for_field(Field::from_field_id(4u32));
-                VInt(2).serialize(&mut write_4).unwrap();
-                write_4.flush().unwrap();
-            }
-            composite_write.close().unwrap();
+            let mut write_0 = composite_write.for_field(Field::from_field_id(0u32));
+            VInt(32431123u64).serialize(&mut write_0)?;
+            write_0.flush()?;
+            let mut write_4 = composite_write.for_field(Field::from_field_id(4u32));
+            VInt(2).serialize(&mut write_4)?;
+            write_4.flush()?;
+            composite_write.close()?;
         }
         {
-            let r = directory.open_read(path).unwrap();
-            let composite_file = CompositeFile::open(&r).unwrap();
+            let r = directory.open_read(path)?;
+            let composite_file = CompositeFile::open(&r)?;
             {
                 let file0 = composite_file
                     .open_read(Field::from_field_id(0u32))
-                    .unwrap();
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .read_bytes()?;
                 let mut file0_buf = file0.as_slice();
-                let payload_0 = VInt::deserialize(&mut file0_buf).unwrap().0;
+                let payload_0 = VInt::deserialize(&mut file0_buf)?.0;
                 assert_eq!(file0_buf.len(), 0);
                 assert_eq!(payload_0, 32431123u64);
             }
             {
                 let file4 = composite_file
                     .open_read(Field::from_field_id(4u32))
-                    .unwrap();
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .read_bytes()?;
                 let mut file4_buf = file4.as_slice();
-                let payload_4 = VInt::deserialize(&mut file4_buf).unwrap().0;
+                let payload_4 = VInt::deserialize(&mut file4_buf)?.0;
                 assert_eq!(file4_buf.len(), 0);
                 assert_eq!(payload_4, 2u64);
             }
         }
+        Ok(())
     }
 }

src/directory/directory.rs

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 use crate::directory::directory_lock::Lock;
 use crate::directory::error::LockError;
 use crate::directory::error::{DeleteError, OpenReadError, OpenWriteError};
-use crate::directory::WatchCallback;
 use crate::directory::WatchHandle;
-use crate::directory::{ReadOnlySource, WritePtr};
+use crate::directory::{FileHandle, WatchCallback};
+use crate::directory::{FileSlice, WritePtr};
 use std::fmt;
 use std::io;
 use std::io::Write;
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ use std::marker::Send;
 use std::marker::Sync;
 use std::path::Path;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
-use std::result;
 use std::thread;
 use std::time::Duration;
 
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ impl Drop for DirectoryLockGuard {
 
 enum TryAcquireLockError {
     FileExists,
-    IOError(io::Error),
+    IoError(io::Error),
 }
 
 fn try_acquire_lock(
@@ -80,9 +79,9 @@ fn try_acquire_lock(
 ) -> Result<DirectoryLock, TryAcquireLockError> {
     let mut write = directory.open_write(filepath).map_err(|e| match e {
         OpenWriteError::FileAlreadyExists(_) => TryAcquireLockError::FileExists,
-        OpenWriteError::IOError(io_error) => TryAcquireLockError::IOError(io_error.into()),
+        OpenWriteError::IoError { io_error, .. } => TryAcquireLockError::IoError(io_error),
     })?;
-    write.flush().map_err(TryAcquireLockError::IOError)?;
+    write.flush().map_err(TryAcquireLockError::IoError)?;
     Ok(DirectoryLock::from(Box::new(DirectoryLockGuard {
         directory: directory.box_clone(),
         path: filepath.to_owned(),
@@ -107,39 +106,45 @@ fn retry_policy(is_blocking: bool) -> RetryPolicy {
 ///
 /// - The [`MMapDirectory`](struct.MmapDirectory.html), this
 /// should be your default choice.
-/// - The [`RAMDirectory`](struct.RAMDirectory.html), which
+/// - The [`RamDirectory`](struct.RamDirectory.html), which
 /// should be used mostly for tests.
-///
 pub trait Directory: DirectoryClone + fmt::Debug + Send + Sync + 'static {
-    /// Opens a virtual file for read.
+    /// Opens a file and returns a boxed `FileHandle`.
     ///
+    /// Users of `Directory` should typically call `Directory::open_read(...)`,
+    /// while `Directory` implementor should implement `get_file_handle()`.
+    fn get_file_handle(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<Box<dyn FileHandle>, OpenReadError>;
+
     /// Once a virtual file is open, its data may not
     /// change.
     ///
     /// Specifically, subsequent writes or flushes should
-    /// have no effect on the returned `ReadOnlySource` object.
+    /// have no effect on the returned `FileSlice` object.
     ///
     /// You should only use this to read files create with [Directory::open_write].
-    fn open_read(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<ReadOnlySource, OpenReadError>;
+    fn open_read(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<FileSlice, OpenReadError> {
+        let file_handle = self.get_file_handle(path)?;
+        Ok(FileSlice::new(file_handle))
+    }
 
     /// Removes a file
     ///
     /// Removing a file will not affect an eventual
-    /// existing ReadOnlySource pointing to it.
+    /// existing FileSlice pointing to it.
     ///
     /// Removing a nonexistent file, yields a
     /// `DeleteError::DoesNotExist`.
-    fn delete(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<(), DeleteError>;
+    fn delete(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<(), DeleteError>;
 
     /// Returns true iff the file exists
-    fn exists(&self, path: &Path) -> bool;
+    fn exists(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<bool, OpenReadError>;
 
     /// Opens a writer for the *virtual file* associated with
     /// a Path.
     ///
     /// Right after this call, the file should be created
     /// and any subsequent call to `open_read` for the
-    /// same path should return a `ReadOnlySource`.
+    /// same path should return a `FileSlice`.
     ///
     /// Write operations may be aggressively buffered.
     /// The client of this trait is responsible for calling flush
@@ -149,11 +154,11 @@ pub trait Directory: DirectoryClone + fmt::Debug + Send + Sync + 'static {
     /// Flush operation should also be persistent.
     ///
     /// The user shall not rely on `Drop` triggering `flush`.
-    /// Note that `RAMDirectory` will panic! if `flush`
+    /// Note that `RamDirectory` will panic! if `flush`
     /// was not called.
     ///
     /// The file may not previously exist.
-    fn open_write(&mut self, path: &Path) -> Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError>;
+    fn open_write(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError>;
 
     /// Reads the full content file that has been written using
     /// atomic_write.
@@ -169,7 +174,7 @@ pub trait Directory: DirectoryClone + fmt::Debug + Send + Sync + 'static {
     /// a partially written file.
     ///
     /// The file may or may not previously exist.
-    fn atomic_write(&mut self, path: &Path, data: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()>;
+    fn atomic_write(&self, path: &Path, data: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()>;
 
     /// Acquire a lock in the given directory.
     ///
@@ -187,8 +192,8 @@ pub trait Directory: DirectoryClone + fmt::Debug + Send + Sync + 'static {
                         return Err(LockError::LockBusy);
                     }
                 }
-                Err(TryAcquireLockError::IOError(io_error)) => {
-                    return Err(LockError::IOError(io_error));
+                Err(TryAcquireLockError::IoError(io_error)) => {
+                    return Err(LockError::IoError(io_error));
                 }
             }
         }

src/directory/error.rs

@@ -1,162 +1,68 @@
 use crate::Version;
-use std::error::Error as StdError;
 use std::fmt;
 use std::io;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 /// Error while trying to acquire a directory lock.
-#[derive(Debug, Fail)]
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
 pub enum LockError {
     /// Failed to acquired a lock as it is already held by another
     /// client.
     /// - In the context of a blocking lock, this means the lock was not released within some `timeout` period.
     /// - In the context of a non-blocking lock, this means the lock was busy at the moment of the call.
-    #[fail(
-        display = "Could not acquire lock as it is already held, possibly by a different process."
-    )]
+    #[error("Could not acquire lock as it is already held, possibly by a different process.")]
     LockBusy,
-    /// Trying to acquire a lock failed with an `IOError`
-    #[fail(display = "Failed to acquire the lock due to an io:Error.")]
-    IOError(io::Error),
-}
-
-/// General IO error with an optional path to the offending file.
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct IOError {
-    path: Option<PathBuf>,
-    err: io::Error,
-}
-
-impl Into<io::Error> for IOError {
-    fn into(self) -> io::Error {
-        self.err
-    }
-}
-
-impl fmt::Display for IOError {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        match self.path {
-            Some(ref path) => write!(f, "io error occurred on path '{:?}': '{}'", path, self.err),
-            None => write!(f, "io error occurred: '{}'", self.err),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl StdError for IOError {
-    fn description(&self) -> &str {
-        "io error occurred"
-    }
-
-    fn cause(&self) -> Option<&dyn StdError> {
-        Some(&self.err)
-    }
-}
-
-impl IOError {
-    pub(crate) fn with_path(path: PathBuf, err: io::Error) -> Self {
-        IOError {
-            path: Some(path),
-            err,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<io::Error> for IOError {
-    fn from(err: io::Error) -> IOError {
-        IOError { path: None, err }
-    }
-}
-
-/// Error that may occur when opening a directory
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub enum OpenDirectoryError {
-    /// The underlying directory does not exists.
-    DoesNotExist(PathBuf),
-    /// The path exists but is not a directory.
-    NotADirectory(PathBuf),
-    /// IoError
+    /// Trying to acquire a lock failed with an `IoError`
+    #[error("Failed to acquire the lock due to an io:Error.")]
     IoError(io::Error),
 }
 
-impl From<io::Error> for OpenDirectoryError {
-    fn from(io_err: io::Error) -> Self {
-        OpenDirectoryError::IoError(io_err)
-    }
-}
-
-impl fmt::Display for OpenDirectoryError {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        match *self {
-            OpenDirectoryError::DoesNotExist(ref path) => {
-                write!(f, "the underlying directory '{:?}' does not exist", path)
-            }
-            OpenDirectoryError::NotADirectory(ref path) => {
-                write!(f, "the path '{:?}' exists but is not a directory", path)
-            }
-            OpenDirectoryError::IoError(ref err) => write!(
-                f,
-                "IOError while trying to open/create the directory. {:?}",
-                err
-            ),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl StdError for OpenDirectoryError {
-    fn description(&self) -> &str {
-        "error occurred while opening a directory"
-    }
-
-    fn cause(&self) -> Option<&dyn StdError> {
-        None
-    }
+/// Error that may occur when opening a directory
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
+pub enum OpenDirectoryError {
+    /// The underlying directory does not exists.
+    #[error("Directory does not exist: '{0}'.")]
+    DoesNotExist(PathBuf),
+    /// The path exists but is not a directory.
+    #[error("Path exists but is not a directory: '{0}'.")]
+    NotADirectory(PathBuf),
+    /// Failed to create a temp directory.
+    #[error("Failed to create a temporary directory: '{0}'.")]
+    FailedToCreateTempDir(io::Error),
+    /// IoError
+    #[error("IoError '{io_error:?}' while create directory in: '{directory_path:?}'.")]
+    IoError {
+        /// underlying io Error.
+        io_error: io::Error,
+        /// directory we tried to open.
+        directory_path: PathBuf,
+    },
 }
 
 /// Error that may occur when starting to write in a file
-#[derive(Debug)]
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
 pub enum OpenWriteError {
     /// Our directory is WORM, writing an existing file is forbidden.
     /// Checkout the `Directory` documentation.
+    #[error("File already exists: '{0}'")]
     FileAlreadyExists(PathBuf),
     /// Any kind of IO error that happens when
     /// writing in the underlying IO device.
-    IOError(IOError),
+    #[error("IoError '{io_error:?}' while opening file for write: '{filepath}'.")]
+    IoError {
+        /// The underlying `io::Error`.
+        io_error: io::Error,
+        /// File path of the file that tantivy failed to open for write.
+        filepath: PathBuf,
+    },
 }
 
-impl From<IOError> for OpenWriteError {
-    fn from(err: IOError) -> OpenWriteError {
-        OpenWriteError::IOError(err)
+impl OpenWriteError {
+    /// Wraps an io error.
+    pub fn wrap_io_error(io_error: io::Error, filepath: PathBuf) -> Self {
+        Self::IoError { io_error, filepath }
     }
 }
-
-impl fmt::Display for OpenWriteError {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        match *self {
-            OpenWriteError::FileAlreadyExists(ref path) => {
-                write!(f, "the file '{:?}' already exists", path)
-            }
-            OpenWriteError::IOError(ref err) => write!(
-                f,
-                "an io error occurred while opening a file for writing: '{}'",
-                err
-            ),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl StdError for OpenWriteError {
-    fn description(&self) -> &str {
-        "error occurred while opening a file for writing"
-    }
-
-    fn cause(&self) -> Option<&dyn StdError> {
-        match *self {
-            OpenWriteError::FileAlreadyExists(_) => None,
-            OpenWriteError::IOError(ref err) => Some(err),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 /// Type of index incompatibility between the library and the index found on disk
 /// Used to catch and provide a hint to solve this incompatibility issue
 pub enum Incompatibility {
@@ -217,55 +123,47 @@ impl fmt::Debug for Incompatibility {
 }
 
 /// Error that may occur when accessing a file read
-#[derive(Debug)]
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
 pub enum OpenReadError {
     /// The file does not exists.
+    #[error("Files does not exists: {0:?}")]
     FileDoesNotExist(PathBuf),
-    /// Any kind of IO error that happens when
-    /// interacting with the underlying IO device.
-    IOError(IOError),
-    /// This library doesn't support the index version found on disk
+    /// Any kind of io::Error.
+    #[error(
+        "IoError: '{io_error:?}' happened while opening the following file for Read: {filepath}."
+    )]
+    IoError {
+        /// The underlying `io::Error`.
+        io_error: io::Error,
+        /// File path of the file that tantivy failed to open for read.
+        filepath: PathBuf,
+    },
+    /// This library does not support the index version found in file footer.
+    #[error("Index version unsupported: {0:?}")]
     IncompatibleIndex(Incompatibility),
 }
 
-impl From<IOError> for OpenReadError {
-    fn from(err: IOError) -> OpenReadError {
-        OpenReadError::IOError(err)
+impl OpenReadError {
+    /// Wraps an io error.
+    pub fn wrap_io_error(io_error: io::Error, filepath: PathBuf) -> Self {
+        Self::IoError { io_error, filepath }
     }
 }
-
-impl fmt::Display for OpenReadError {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        match *self {
-            OpenReadError::FileDoesNotExist(ref path) => {
-                write!(f, "the file '{:?}' does not exist", path)
-            }
-            OpenReadError::IOError(ref err) => write!(
-                f,
-                "an io error occurred while opening a file for reading: '{}'",
-                err
-            ),
-            OpenReadError::IncompatibleIndex(ref footer) => {
-                write!(f, "Incompatible index format: {:?}", footer)
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 /// Error that may occur when trying to delete a file
-#[derive(Debug)]
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
 pub enum DeleteError {
     /// The file does not exists.
+    #[error("File does not exists: '{0}'.")]
     FileDoesNotExist(PathBuf),
     /// Any kind of IO error that happens when
     /// interacting with the underlying IO device.
-    IOError(IOError),
-}
-
-impl From<IOError> for DeleteError {
-    fn from(err: IOError) -> DeleteError {
-        DeleteError::IOError(err)
-    }
+    #[error("The following IO error happened while deleting file '{filepath}': '{io_error:?}'.")]
+    IoError {
+        /// The underlying `io::Error`.
+        io_error: io::Error,
+        /// File path of the file that tantivy failed to delete.
+        filepath: PathBuf,
+    },
 }
 
 impl From<Incompatibility> for OpenReadError {
@@ -273,29 +171,3 @@ impl From<Incompatibility> for OpenReadError {
         OpenReadError::IncompatibleIndex(incompatibility)
     }
 }
-
-impl fmt::Display for DeleteError {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        match *self {
-            DeleteError::FileDoesNotExist(ref path) => {
-                write!(f, "the file '{:?}' does not exist", path)
-            }
-            DeleteError::IOError(ref err) => {
-                write!(f, "an io error occurred while deleting a file: '{}'", err)
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl StdError for DeleteError {
-    fn description(&self) -> &str {
-        "error occurred while deleting a file"
-    }
-
-    fn cause(&self) -> Option<&dyn StdError> {
-        match *self {
-            DeleteError::FileDoesNotExist(_) => None,
-            DeleteError::IOError(ref err) => Some(err),
-        }
-    }
-}

src/directory/file_slice.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,247 @@
+use stable_deref_trait::StableDeref;
+
+use crate::directory::OwnedBytes;
+use common::HasLen;
+use std::fmt;
+use std::ops::Range;
+use std::sync::{Arc, Weak};
+use std::{io, ops::Deref};
+
+pub type ArcBytes = Arc<dyn Deref<Target = [u8]> + Send + Sync + 'static>;
+pub type WeakArcBytes = Weak<dyn Deref<Target = [u8]> + Send + Sync + 'static>;
+
+/// Objects that represents files sections in tantivy.
+///
+/// By contract, whatever happens to the directory file, as long as a FileHandle
+/// is alive, the data associated with it cannot be altered or destroyed.
+///
+/// The underlying behavior is therefore specific to the `Directory` that created it.
+/// Despite its name, a `FileSlice` may or may not directly map to an actual file
+/// on the filesystem.
+pub trait FileHandle: 'static + Send + Sync + HasLen + fmt::Debug {
+    /// Reads a slice of bytes.
+    ///
+    /// This method may panic if the range requested is invalid.
+    fn read_bytes(&self, range: Range<usize>) -> io::Result<OwnedBytes>;
+}
+
+impl FileHandle for &'static [u8] {
+    fn read_bytes(&self, range: Range<usize>) -> io::Result<OwnedBytes> {
+        let bytes = &self[range];
+        Ok(OwnedBytes::new(bytes))
+    }
+}
+
+impl<B> From<B> for FileSlice
+where
+    B: StableDeref + Deref<Target = [u8]> + 'static + Send + Sync,
+{
+    fn from(bytes: B) -> FileSlice {
+        FileSlice::new(Box::new(OwnedBytes::new(bytes)))
+    }
+}
+
+/// Logical slice of read only file in tantivy.
+///
+/// It can be cloned and sliced cheaply.
+///
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct FileSlice {
+    data: Arc<dyn FileHandle>,
+    range: Range<usize>,
+}
+
+impl fmt::Debug for FileSlice {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "FileSlice({:?}, {:?})", &self.data, self.range)
+    }
+}
+
+impl FileSlice {
+    /// Wraps a FileHandle.
+    pub fn new(file_handle: Box<dyn FileHandle>) -> Self {
+        let num_bytes = file_handle.len();
+        FileSlice::new_with_num_bytes(file_handle, num_bytes)
+    }
+
+    /// Wraps a FileHandle.
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    pub fn new_with_num_bytes(file_handle: Box<dyn FileHandle>, num_bytes: usize) -> Self {
+        FileSlice {
+            data: Arc::from(file_handle),
+            range: 0..num_bytes,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Creates a fileslice that is just a view over a slice of the data.
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// Panics if `byte_range.end` exceeds the filesize.
+    pub fn slice(&self, byte_range: Range<usize>) -> FileSlice {
+        assert!(byte_range.end <= self.len());
+        FileSlice {
+            data: self.data.clone(),
+            range: self.range.start + byte_range.start..self.range.start + byte_range.end,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Creates an empty FileSlice
+    pub fn empty() -> FileSlice {
+        const EMPTY_SLICE: &[u8] = &[];
+        FileSlice::from(EMPTY_SLICE)
+    }
+
+    /// Returns a `OwnedBytes` with all of the data in the `FileSlice`.
+    ///
+    /// The behavior is strongly dependant on the implementation of the underlying
+    /// `Directory` and the `FileSliceTrait` it creates.
+    /// In particular, it is  up to the `Directory` implementation
+    /// to handle caching if needed.
+    pub fn read_bytes(&self) -> io::Result<OwnedBytes> {
+        self.data.read_bytes(self.range.clone())
+    }
+
+    /// Reads a specific slice of data.
+    ///
+    /// This is equivalent to running `file_slice.slice(from, to).read_bytes()`.
+    pub fn read_bytes_slice(&self, range: Range<usize>) -> io::Result<OwnedBytes> {
+        assert!(
+            range.end <= self.len(),
+            "end of requested range exceeds the fileslice length ({} > {})",
+            range.end,
+            self.len()
+        );
+        self.data
+            .read_bytes(self.range.start + range.start..self.range.start + range.end)
+    }
+
+    /// Splits the FileSlice at the given offset and return two file slices.
+    /// `file_slice[..split_offset]` and `file_slice[split_offset..]`.
+    ///
+    /// This operation is cheap and must not copy any underlying data.
+    pub fn split(self, left_len: usize) -> (FileSlice, FileSlice) {
+        let left = self.slice_to(left_len);
+        let right = self.slice_from(left_len);
+        (left, right)
+    }
+
+    /// Splits the file slice at the given offset and return two file slices.
+    /// `file_slice[..split_offset]` and `file_slice[split_offset..]`.
+    pub fn split_from_end(self, right_len: usize) -> (FileSlice, FileSlice) {
+        let left_len = self.len() - right_len;
+        self.split(left_len)
+    }
+
+    /// Like `.slice(...)` but enforcing only the `from`
+    /// boundary.
+    ///
+    /// Equivalent to `.slice(from_offset, self.len())`
+    pub fn slice_from(&self, from_offset: usize) -> FileSlice {
+        self.slice(from_offset..self.len())
+    }
+
+    /// Returns a slice from the end.
+    ///
+    /// Equivalent to `.slice(self.len() - from_offset, self.len())`
+    pub fn slice_from_end(&self, from_offset: usize) -> FileSlice {
+        self.slice(self.len() - from_offset..self.len())
+    }
+
+    /// Like `.slice(...)` but enforcing only the `to`
+    /// boundary.
+    ///
+    /// Equivalent to `.slice(0, to_offset)`
+    pub fn slice_to(&self, to_offset: usize) -> FileSlice {
+        self.slice(0..to_offset)
+    }
+}
+
+impl FileHandle for FileSlice {
+    fn read_bytes(&self, range: Range<usize>) -> io::Result<OwnedBytes> {
+        self.read_bytes_slice(range)
+    }
+}
+
+impl HasLen for FileSlice {
+    fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.range.len()
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::{FileHandle, FileSlice};
+    use common::HasLen;
+    use std::io;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_file_slice() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let file_slice = FileSlice::new(Box::new(b"abcdef".as_ref()));
+        assert_eq!(file_slice.len(), 6);
+        assert_eq!(file_slice.slice_from(2).read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"cdef");
+        assert_eq!(file_slice.slice_to(2).read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"ab");
+        assert_eq!(
+            file_slice
+                .slice_from(1)
+                .slice_to(2)
+                .read_bytes()?
+                .as_slice(),
+            b"bc"
+        );
+        {
+            let (left, right) = file_slice.clone().split(0);
+            assert_eq!(left.read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"");
+            assert_eq!(right.read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"abcdef");
+        }
+        {
+            let (left, right) = file_slice.clone().split(2);
+            assert_eq!(left.read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"ab");
+            assert_eq!(right.read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"cdef");
+        }
+        {
+            let (left, right) = file_slice.clone().split_from_end(0);
+            assert_eq!(left.read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"abcdef");
+            assert_eq!(right.read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"");
+        }
+        {
+            let (left, right) = file_slice.split_from_end(2);
+            assert_eq!(left.read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"abcd");
+            assert_eq!(right.read_bytes()?.as_slice(), b"ef");
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_file_slice_trait_slice_len() {
+        let blop: &'static [u8] = b"abc";
+        let owned_bytes: Box<dyn FileHandle> = Box::new(blop);
+        assert_eq!(owned_bytes.len(), 3);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_slice_simple_read() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let slice = FileSlice::new(Box::new(&b"abcdef"[..]));
+        assert_eq!(slice.len(), 6);
+        assert_eq!(slice.read_bytes()?.as_ref(), b"abcdef");
+        assert_eq!(slice.slice(1..4).read_bytes()?.as_ref(), b"bcd");
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_slice_read_slice() -> io::Result<()> {
+        let slice_deref = FileSlice::new(Box::new(&b"abcdef"[..]));
+        assert_eq!(slice_deref.read_bytes_slice(1..4)?.as_ref(), b"bcd");
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    #[should_panic(expected = "end of requested range exceeds the fileslice length (10 > 6)")]
+    fn test_slice_read_slice_invalid_range_exceeds() {
+        let slice_deref = FileSlice::new(Box::new(&b"abcdef"[..]));
+        assert_eq!(
+            slice_deref.read_bytes_slice(0..10).unwrap().as_ref(),
+            b"bcd"
+        );
+    }
+}

src/directory/file_watcher.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+use crate::directory::{WatchCallback, WatchCallbackList, WatchHandle};
+use crc32fast::Hasher;
+use std::fs;
+use std::io;
+use std::io::BufRead;
+use std::path::Path;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::thread;
+use std::time::Duration;
+
+pub const POLLING_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(if cfg!(test) { 1 } else { 500 });
+
+// Watches a file and executes registered callbacks when the file is modified.
+pub struct FileWatcher {
+    path: Arc<Path>,
+    callbacks: Arc<WatchCallbackList>,
+    state: Arc<AtomicUsize>, // 0: new, 1: runnable, 2: terminated
+}
+
+impl FileWatcher {
+    pub fn new(path: &Path) -> FileWatcher {
+        FileWatcher {
+            path: Arc::from(path),
+            callbacks: Default::default(),
+            state: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn spawn(&self) {
+        if self
+            .state
+            .compare_exchange(0, 1, Ordering::SeqCst, Ordering::SeqCst)
+            .is_err()
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        let path = self.path.clone();
+        let callbacks = self.callbacks.clone();
+        let state = self.state.clone();
+
+        thread::Builder::new()
+            .name("thread-tantivy-meta-file-watcher".to_string())
+            .spawn(move || {
+                let mut current_checksum = None;
+
+                while state.load(Ordering::SeqCst) == 1 {
+                    if let Ok(checksum) = FileWatcher::compute_checksum(&path) {
+                        // `None.unwrap_or_else(|| !checksum) != checksum` evaluates to `true`
+                        if current_checksum.unwrap_or_else(|| !checksum) != checksum {
+                            info!("Meta file {:?} was modified", path);
+                            current_checksum = Some(checksum);
+                            futures::executor::block_on(callbacks.broadcast());
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    thread::sleep(POLLING_INTERVAL);
+                }
+            })
+            .expect("Failed to spawn meta file watcher thread");
+    }
+
+    pub fn watch(&self, callback: WatchCallback) -> WatchHandle {
+        let handle = self.callbacks.subscribe(callback);
+        self.spawn();
+        handle
+    }
+
+    fn compute_checksum(path: &Path) -> Result<u32, io::Error> {
+        let reader = match fs::File::open(path) {
+            Ok(f) => io::BufReader::new(f),
+            Err(e) => {
+                warn!("Failed to open meta file {:?}: {:?}", path, e);
+                return Err(e);
+            }
+        };
+
+        let mut hasher = Hasher::new();
+
+        for line in reader.lines() {
+            hasher.update(line?.as_bytes())
+        }
+
+        Ok(hasher.finalize())
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for FileWatcher {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        self.state.store(2, Ordering::SeqCst);
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+
+    use std::mem;
+
+    use crate::directory::mmap_directory::atomic_write;
+
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_file_watcher_drop_watcher() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let tmp_dir = tempfile::TempDir::new()?;
+        let tmp_file = tmp_dir.path().join("watched.txt");
+
+        let counter: Arc<AtomicUsize> = Default::default();
+        let (tx, rx) = crossbeam::channel::unbounded();
+        let timeout = Duration::from_millis(100);
+
+        let watcher = FileWatcher::new(&tmp_file);
+
+        let state = watcher.state.clone();
+        assert_eq!(state.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 0);
+
+        let counter_clone = counter.clone();
+
+        let _handle = watcher.watch(WatchCallback::new(move || {
+            let val = counter_clone.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+            tx.send(val + 1).unwrap();
+        }));
+
+        assert_eq!(counter.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 0);
+        assert_eq!(state.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 1);
+
+        atomic_write(&tmp_file, b"foo")?;
+        assert_eq!(rx.recv_timeout(timeout), Ok(1));
+
+        atomic_write(&tmp_file, b"foo")?;
+        assert!(rx.recv_timeout(timeout).is_err());
+
+        atomic_write(&tmp_file, b"bar")?;
+        assert_eq!(rx.recv_timeout(timeout), Ok(2));
+
+        mem::drop(watcher);
+
+        atomic_write(&tmp_file, b"qux")?;
+        thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
+        assert_eq!(counter.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 2);
+        assert_eq!(state.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 2);
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_file_watcher_drop_handle() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let tmp_dir = tempfile::TempDir::new()?;
+        let tmp_file = tmp_dir.path().join("watched.txt");
+
+        let counter: Arc<AtomicUsize> = Default::default();
+        let (tx, rx) = crossbeam::channel::unbounded();
+        let timeout = Duration::from_millis(100);
+
+        let watcher = FileWatcher::new(&tmp_file);
+
+        let state = watcher.state.clone();
+        assert_eq!(state.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 0);
+
+        let counter_clone = counter.clone();
+
+        let handle = watcher.watch(WatchCallback::new(move || {
+            let val = counter_clone.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+            tx.send(val + 1).unwrap();
+        }));
+
+        assert_eq!(counter.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 0);
+        assert_eq!(state.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 1);
+
+        atomic_write(&tmp_file, b"foo")?;
+        assert_eq!(rx.recv_timeout(timeout), Ok(1));
+
+        mem::drop(handle);
+
+        atomic_write(&tmp_file, b"qux")?;
+        assert_eq!(counter.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 1);
+        assert_eq!(state.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 1);
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}

src/directory/footer.rs

@@ -1,87 +1,99 @@
-use crate::common::{BinarySerializable, CountingWriter, FixedSize, VInt};
 use crate::directory::error::Incompatibility;
-use crate::directory::read_only_source::ReadOnlySource;
-use crate::directory::{AntiCallToken, TerminatingWrite};
-use crate::Version;
-use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian, WriteBytesExt};
+use crate::directory::FileSlice;
+use crate::{
+    directory::{AntiCallToken, TerminatingWrite},
+    Version, INDEX_FORMAT_VERSION,
+};
+use common::{BinarySerializable, CountingWriter, DeserializeFrom, FixedSize, HasLen};
 use crc32fast::Hasher;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::io;
 use std::io::Write;
 
+const FOOTER_MAX_LEN: u32 = 50_000;
+
+/// The magic byte of the footer to identify corruption
+/// or an old version of the footer.
+const FOOTER_MAGIC_NUMBER: u32 = 1337;
+
 type CrcHashU32 = u32;
 
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+/// A Footer is appended to every file
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct Footer {
     pub version: Version,
-    pub meta: String,
-    pub versioned_footer: VersionedFooter,
-}
-
-/// Serialises the footer to a byte-array
-/// - versioned_footer_len : 4 bytes
-///-  versioned_footer: variable bytes
-/// - meta_len: 4 bytes
-/// - meta: variable bytes
-/// - version_len: 4 bytes
-/// - version json: variable bytes
-impl BinarySerializable for Footer {
-    fn serialize<W: io::Write>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
-        BinarySerializable::serialize(&self.versioned_footer, writer)?;
-        BinarySerializable::serialize(&self.meta, writer)?;
-        let version_string =
-            serde_json::to_string(&self.version).map_err(|_err| io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput)?;
-        BinarySerializable::serialize(&version_string, writer)?;
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    fn deserialize<R: io::Read>(reader: &mut R) -> io::Result<Self> {
-        let versioned_footer = VersionedFooter::deserialize(reader)?;
-        let meta = String::deserialize(reader)?;
-        let version_json = String::deserialize(reader)?;
-        let version = serde_json::from_str(&version_json)?;
-        Ok(Footer {
-            version,
-            meta,
-            versioned_footer,
-        })
-    }
+    pub crc: CrcHashU32,
 }
 
 impl Footer {
-    pub fn new(versioned_footer: VersionedFooter) -> Self {
+    pub fn new(crc: CrcHashU32) -> Self {
         let version = crate::VERSION.clone();
-        let meta = version.to_string();
-        Footer {
-            version,
-            meta,
-            versioned_footer,
-        }
+        Footer { version, crc }
     }
 
+    pub fn crc(&self) -> CrcHashU32 {
+        self.crc
+    }
     pub fn append_footer<W: io::Write>(&self, mut write: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
         let mut counting_write = CountingWriter::wrap(&mut write);
-        self.serialize(&mut counting_write)?;
-        let written_len = counting_write.written_bytes();
-        write.write_u32::<LittleEndian>(written_len as u32)?;
+        counting_write.write_all(serde_json::to_string(&self)?.as_ref())?;
+        let footer_payload_len = counting_write.written_bytes();
+        BinarySerializable::serialize(&(footer_payload_len as u32), write)?;
+        BinarySerializable::serialize(&(FOOTER_MAGIC_NUMBER as u32), write)?;
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    pub fn extract_footer(source: ReadOnlySource) -> Result<(Footer, ReadOnlySource), io::Error> {
-        if source.len() < 4 {
+    pub fn extract_footer(file: FileSlice) -> io::Result<(Footer, FileSlice)> {
+        if file.len() < 4 {
             return Err(io::Error::new(
                 io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof,
                 format!(
                     "File corrupted. The file is smaller than 4 bytes (len={}).",
-                    source.len()
+                    file.len()
                 ),
             ));
         }
-        let (body_footer, footer_len_bytes) = source.split_from_end(u32::SIZE_IN_BYTES);
-        let footer_len = LittleEndian::read_u32(footer_len_bytes.as_slice()) as usize;
-        let body_len = body_footer.len() - footer_len;
-        let (body, footer_data) = body_footer.split(body_len);
-        let mut cursor = footer_data.as_slice();
-        let footer = Footer::deserialize(&mut cursor)?;
+
+        let footer_metadata_len = <(u32, u32)>::SIZE_IN_BYTES;
+        let (footer_len, footer_magic_byte): (u32, u32) = file
+            .slice_from_end(footer_metadata_len)
+            .read_bytes()?
+            .as_ref()
+            .deserialize()?;
+
+        if footer_magic_byte != FOOTER_MAGIC_NUMBER {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(
+                io::ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+                    "Footer magic byte mismatch. File corrupted or index was created using old an tantivy version which is not supported anymore. Please use tantivy 0.15 or above to recreate the index.",
+            ));
+        }
+
+        if footer_len > FOOTER_MAX_LEN {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(
+                io::ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+                format!(
+                    "Footer seems invalid as it suggests a footer len of {}. File is corrupted, \
+            or the index was created with a different & old version of tantivy.",
+                    footer_len
+                ),
+            ));
+        }
+        let total_footer_size = footer_len as usize + footer_metadata_len;
+        if file.len() < total_footer_size {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(
+                io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof,
+                format!(
+                    "File corrupted. The file is smaller than it's footer bytes (len={}).",
+                    total_footer_size
+                ),
+            ));
+        }
+
+        let footer: Footer = serde_json::from_slice(&file.read_bytes_slice(
+            file.len() - total_footer_size..file.len() - footer_metadata_len as usize,
+        )?)?;
+
+        let body = file.slice_to(file.len() - total_footer_size);
         Ok((footer, body))
     }
 
@@ -89,90 +101,16 @@ impl Footer {
     /// Has to be called after `extract_footer` to make sure it's not accessing uninitialised memory
     pub fn is_compatible(&self) -> Result<(), Incompatibility> {
         let library_version = crate::version();
-        match &self.versioned_footer {
-            VersionedFooter::V1 {
-                crc32: _crc,
-                store_compression: compression,
-            } => {
-                if &library_version.store_compression != compression {
-                    return Err(Incompatibility::CompressionMismatch {
-                        library_compression_format: library_version.store_compression.to_string(),
-                        index_compression_format: compression.to_string(),
-                    });
-                }
-                Ok(())
-            }
-            VersionedFooter::UnknownVersion => Err(Incompatibility::IndexMismatch {
+        if self.version.index_format_version < 4
+            || self.version.index_format_version > INDEX_FORMAT_VERSION
+        {
+            return Err(Incompatibility::IndexMismatch {
                 library_version: library_version.clone(),
                 index_version: self.version.clone(),
-            }),
+            });
         }
-    }
-}
-
-/// Footer that includes a crc32 hash that enables us to checksum files in the index
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
-pub enum VersionedFooter {
-    UnknownVersion,
-    V1 {
-        crc32: CrcHashU32,
-        store_compression: String,
-    },
-}
-
-impl BinarySerializable for VersionedFooter {
-    fn serialize<W: io::Write>(&self, writer: &mut W) -> io::Result<()> {
-        let mut buf = Vec::new();
-        match self {
-            VersionedFooter::V1 {
-                crc32,
-                store_compression: compression,
-            } => {
-                // Serializes a valid `VersionedFooter` or panics if the version is unknown
-                // [   version    |   crc_hash  | compression_mode ]
-                // [    0..4      |     4..8    |     variable     ]
-                BinarySerializable::serialize(&1u32, &mut buf)?;
-                BinarySerializable::serialize(crc32, &mut buf)?;
-                BinarySerializable::serialize(compression, &mut buf)?;
-            }
-            VersionedFooter::UnknownVersion => {
-                return Err(io::Error::new(
-                    io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
-                    "Cannot serialize an unknown versioned footer ",
-                ));
-            }
-        }
-        BinarySerializable::serialize(&VInt(buf.len() as u64), writer)?;
-        writer.write_all(&buf[..])?;
         Ok(())
     }
-
-    fn deserialize<R: io::Read>(reader: &mut R) -> io::Result<Self> {
-        let len = VInt::deserialize(reader)?.0 as usize;
-        let mut buf = vec![0u8; len];
-        reader.read_exact(&mut buf[..])?;
-        let mut cursor = &buf[..];
-        let version = u32::deserialize(&mut cursor)?;
-        if version == 1 {
-            let crc32 = u32::deserialize(&mut cursor)?;
-            let compression = String::deserialize(&mut cursor)?;
-            Ok(VersionedFooter::V1 {
-                crc32,
-                store_compression: compression,
-            })
-        } else {
-            Ok(VersionedFooter::UnknownVersion)
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl VersionedFooter {
-    pub fn crc(&self) -> Option<CrcHashU32> {
-        match self {
-            VersionedFooter::V1 { crc32, .. } => Some(*crc32),
-            VersionedFooter::UnknownVersion { .. } => None,
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 pub(crate) struct FooterProxy<W: TerminatingWrite> {
@@ -206,10 +144,7 @@ impl<W: TerminatingWrite> Write for FooterProxy<W> {
 impl<W: TerminatingWrite> TerminatingWrite for FooterProxy<W> {
     fn terminate_ref(&mut self, _: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()> {
         let crc32 = self.hasher.take().unwrap().finalize();
-        let footer = Footer::new(VersionedFooter::V1 {
-            crc32,
-            store_compression: crate::store::COMPRESSION.to_string(),
-        });
+        let footer = Footer::new(crc32);
         let mut writer = self.writer.take().unwrap();
         footer.append_footer(&mut writer)?;
         writer.terminate()
@@ -219,121 +154,73 @@ impl<W: TerminatingWrite> TerminatingWrite for FooterProxy<W> {
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
 
-    use super::CrcHashU32;
-    use super::FooterProxy;
-    use crate::common::BinarySerializable;
-    use crate::directory::footer::{Footer, VersionedFooter};
-    use crate::directory::TerminatingWrite;
-    use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian};
-    use regex::Regex;
+    use crate::directory::footer::Footer;
+    use crate::directory::OwnedBytes;
+    use crate::directory::{footer::FOOTER_MAGIC_NUMBER, FileSlice};
+    use common::BinarySerializable;
+    use std::io;
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_versioned_footer() {
-        let mut vec = Vec::new();
-        let footer_proxy = FooterProxy::new(&mut vec);
-        assert!(footer_proxy.terminate().is_ok());
-        assert_eq!(vec.len(), 167);
-        let footer = Footer::deserialize(&mut &vec[..]).unwrap();
-        if let VersionedFooter::V1 {
-            crc32: _,
-            store_compression,
-        } = footer.versioned_footer
-        {
-            assert_eq!(store_compression, crate::store::COMPRESSION);
-        } else {
-            panic!("Versioned footer should be V1.");
-        }
-        assert_eq!(&footer.version, crate::version());
+    fn test_deserialize_footer() {
+        let mut buf: Vec<u8> = vec![];
+        let footer = Footer::new(123);
+        footer.append_footer(&mut buf).unwrap();
+        let owned_bytes = OwnedBytes::new(buf);
+        let fileslice = FileSlice::new(Box::new(owned_bytes));
+        let (footer_deser, _body) = Footer::extract_footer(fileslice).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(footer_deser.crc(), footer.crc());
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_deserialize_footer_missing_magic_byte() {
+        let mut buf: Vec<u8> = vec![];
+        BinarySerializable::serialize(&0_u32, &mut buf).unwrap();
+        let wrong_magic_byte: u32 = 5555;
+        BinarySerializable::serialize(&wrong_magic_byte, &mut buf).unwrap();
+
+        let owned_bytes = OwnedBytes::new(buf);
+
+        let fileslice = FileSlice::new(Box::new(owned_bytes));
+        let err = Footer::extract_footer(fileslice).unwrap_err();
+        assert_eq!(
+            err.to_string(),
+            "Footer magic byte mismatch. File corrupted or index was created using old an tantivy version which \
+            is not supported anymore. Please use tantivy 0.15 or above to recreate the index."
+        );
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_deserialize_footer_wrong_filesize() {
+        let mut buf: Vec<u8> = vec![];
+        BinarySerializable::serialize(&100_u32, &mut buf).unwrap();
+        BinarySerializable::serialize(&FOOTER_MAGIC_NUMBER, &mut buf).unwrap();
+
+        let owned_bytes = OwnedBytes::new(buf);
+
+        let fileslice = FileSlice::new(Box::new(owned_bytes));
+        let err = Footer::extract_footer(fileslice).unwrap_err();
+        assert_eq!(err.kind(), io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof);
+        assert_eq!(
+            err.to_string(),
+            "File corrupted. The file is smaller than it\'s footer bytes (len=108)."
+        );
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_serialize_deserialize_footer() {
-        let mut buffer = Vec::new();
-        let crc32 = 123456u32;
-        let footer: Footer = Footer::new(VersionedFooter::V1 {
-            crc32,
-            store_compression: "lz4".to_string(),
-        });
-        footer.serialize(&mut buffer).unwrap();
-        let footer_deser = Footer::deserialize(&mut &buffer[..]).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(footer_deser, footer);
-    }
+    fn test_deserialize_too_large_footer() {
+        let mut buf: Vec<u8> = vec![];
 
-    #[test]
-    fn footer_length() {
-        let crc32 = 1111111u32;
-        let versioned_footer = VersionedFooter::V1 {
-            crc32,
-            store_compression: "lz4".to_string(),
-        };
-        let mut buf = Vec::new();
-        versioned_footer.serialize(&mut buf).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(buf.len(), 13);
-        let footer = Footer::new(versioned_footer);
-        let regex_ptn = Regex::new(
-            "tantivy v[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.{0,10}, index_format v[0-9]{1,5}",
-        )
-        .unwrap();
-        assert!(regex_ptn.is_match(&footer.meta));
-    }
+        let footer_length = super::FOOTER_MAX_LEN + 1;
+        BinarySerializable::serialize(&footer_length, &mut buf).unwrap();
+        BinarySerializable::serialize(&FOOTER_MAGIC_NUMBER, &mut buf).unwrap();
 
-    #[test]
-    fn versioned_footer_from_bytes() {
-        let v_footer_bytes = vec![
-            // versionned footer length
-            12 | 128,
-            // index format version
-            1,
-            0,
-            0,
-            0,
-            // crc 32
-            12,
-            35,
-            89,
-            18,
-            // compression format
-            3 | 128,
-            b'l',
-            b'z',
-            b'4',
-        ];
-        let mut cursor = &v_footer_bytes[..];
-        let versioned_footer = VersionedFooter::deserialize(&mut cursor).unwrap();
-        assert!(cursor.is_empty());
-        let expected_crc: u32 = LittleEndian::read_u32(&v_footer_bytes[5..9]) as CrcHashU32;
-        let expected_versioned_footer: VersionedFooter = VersionedFooter::V1 {
-            crc32: expected_crc,
-            store_compression: "lz4".to_string(),
-        };
-        assert_eq!(versioned_footer, expected_versioned_footer);
-        let mut buffer = Vec::new();
-        assert!(versioned_footer.serialize(&mut buffer).is_ok());
-        assert_eq!(&v_footer_bytes[..], &buffer[..]);
-    }
+        let owned_bytes = OwnedBytes::new(buf);
 
-    #[test]
-    fn versioned_footer_panic() {
-        let v_footer_bytes = vec![6u8 | 128u8, 3u8, 0u8, 0u8, 1u8, 0u8, 0u8];
-        let mut b = &v_footer_bytes[..];
-        let versioned_footer = VersionedFooter::deserialize(&mut b).unwrap();
-        assert!(b.is_empty());
-        let expected_versioned_footer = VersionedFooter::UnknownVersion;
-        assert_eq!(versioned_footer, expected_versioned_footer);
-        let mut buf = Vec::new();
-        assert!(versioned_footer.serialize(&mut buf).is_err());
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    #[cfg(not(feature = "lz4"))]
-    fn compression_mismatch() {
-        let crc32 = 1111111u32;
-        let versioned_footer = VersionedFooter::V1 {
-            crc32,
-            store_compression: "lz4".to_string(),
-        };
-        let footer = Footer::new(versioned_footer);
-        let res = footer.is_compatible();
-        assert!(res.is_err());
+        let fileslice = FileSlice::new(Box::new(owned_bytes));
+        let err = Footer::extract_footer(fileslice).unwrap_err();
+        assert_eq!(err.kind(), io::ErrorKind::InvalidData);
+        assert_eq!(
+            err.to_string(),
+            "Footer seems invalid as it suggests a footer len of 50001. File is corrupted, \
+    or the index was created with a different & old version of tantivy."
+        );
     }
 }

src/directory/managed_directory.rs

@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 use crate::core::MANAGED_FILEPATH;
-use crate::directory::error::{DeleteError, IOError, LockError, OpenReadError, OpenWriteError};
+use crate::directory::error::{DeleteError, LockError, OpenReadError, OpenWriteError};
 use crate::directory::footer::{Footer, FooterProxy};
-use crate::directory::DirectoryLock;
 use crate::directory::GarbageCollectionResult;
 use crate::directory::Lock;
 use crate::directory::META_LOCK;
-use crate::directory::{ReadOnlySource, WritePtr};
+use crate::directory::{DirectoryLock, FileHandle};
+use crate::directory::{FileSlice, WritePtr};
 use crate::directory::{WatchCallback, WatchHandle};
 use crate::error::DataCorruption;
 use crate::Directory;
 
 use crc32fast::Hasher;
-use serde_json;
 use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::io;
 use std::io::Write;
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ struct MetaInformation {
 /// Saves the file containing the list of existing files
 /// that were created by tantivy.
 fn save_managed_paths(
-    directory: &mut dyn Directory,
+    directory: &dyn Directory,
     wlock: &RwLockWriteGuard<'_, MetaInformation>,
 ) -> io::Result<()> {
     let mut w = serde_json::to_vec(&wlock.managed_paths)?;
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@ impl ManagedDirectory {
                 directory: Box::new(directory),
                 meta_informations: Arc::default(),
             }),
-            Err(OpenReadError::IOError(e)) => Err(From::from(e)),
+            io_err @ Err(OpenReadError::IoError { .. }) => Err(io_err.err().unwrap().into()),
             Err(OpenReadError::IncompatibleIndex(incompatibility)) => {
                 // For the moment, this should never happen  `meta.json`
                 // do not have any footer and cannot detect incompatibility.
@@ -150,7 +149,7 @@ impl ManagedDirectory {
                 }
                 Err(err) => {
                     error!("Failed to acquire lock for GC");
-                    return Err(crate::Error::from(err));
+                    return Err(crate::TantivyError::from(err));
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -169,7 +168,7 @@ impl ManagedDirectory {
                         DeleteError::FileDoesNotExist(_) => {
                             deleted_files.push(file_to_delete.clone());
                         }
-                        DeleteError::IOError(_) => {
+                        DeleteError::IoError { .. } => {
                             failed_to_delete_files.push(file_to_delete.clone());
                             if !cfg!(target_os = "windows") {
                                 // On windows, delete is expected to fail if the file
@@ -213,7 +212,7 @@ impl ManagedDirectory {
     /// File starting by "." are reserved to locks.
     /// They are not managed and cannot be subjected
     /// to garbage collection.
-    fn register_file_as_managed(&mut self, filepath: &Path) -> io::Result<()> {
+    fn register_file_as_managed(&self, filepath: &Path) -> io::Result<()> {
         // Files starting by "." (e.g. lock files) are not managed.
         if !is_managed(filepath) {
             return Ok(());
@@ -224,7 +223,7 @@ impl ManagedDirectory {
             .expect("Managed file lock poisoned");
         let has_changed = meta_wlock.managed_paths.insert(filepath.to_owned());
         if has_changed {
-            save_managed_paths(self.directory.as_mut(), &meta_wlock)?;
+            save_managed_paths(self.directory.as_ref(), &meta_wlock)?;
         }
         Ok(())
     }
@@ -232,49 +231,52 @@ impl ManagedDirectory {
     /// Verify checksum of a managed file
     pub fn validate_checksum(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<bool, OpenReadError> {
         let reader = self.directory.open_read(path)?;
-        let (footer, data) = Footer::extract_footer(reader)
-            .map_err(|err| IOError::with_path(path.to_path_buf(), err))?;
+        let (footer, data) =
+            Footer::extract_footer(reader).map_err(|io_error| OpenReadError::IoError {
+                io_error,
+                filepath: path.to_path_buf(),
+            })?;
+        let bytes = data
+            .read_bytes()
+            .map_err(|io_error| OpenReadError::IoError {
+                filepath: path.to_path_buf(),
+                io_error,
+            })?;
         let mut hasher = Hasher::new();
-        hasher.update(data.as_slice());
+        hasher.update(bytes.as_slice());
         let crc = hasher.finalize();
-        Ok(footer
-            .versioned_footer
-            .crc()
-            .map(|v| v == crc)
-            .unwrap_or(false))
+        Ok(footer.crc() == crc)
     }
 
-    /// List files for which checksum does not match content
-    pub fn list_damaged(&self) -> result::Result<HashSet<PathBuf>, OpenReadError> {
-        let mut hashset = HashSet::new();
+    /// List all managed files
+    pub fn list_managed_files(&self) -> HashSet<PathBuf> {
         let managed_paths = self
             .meta_informations
             .read()
             .expect("Managed directory rlock poisoned in list damaged.")
             .managed_paths
             .clone();
-
-        for path in managed_paths.into_iter() {
-            if !self.validate_checksum(&path)? {
-                hashset.insert(path);
-            }
-        }
-        Ok(hashset)
+        managed_paths
     }
 }
 
 impl Directory for ManagedDirectory {
-    fn open_read(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<ReadOnlySource, OpenReadError> {
-        let read_only_source = self.directory.open_read(path)?;
-        let (footer, reader) = Footer::extract_footer(read_only_source)
-            .map_err(|err| IOError::with_path(path.to_path_buf(), err))?;
+    fn get_file_handle(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<Box<dyn FileHandle>, OpenReadError> {
+        let file_slice = self.open_read(path)?;
+        Ok(Box::new(file_slice))
+    }
+
+    fn open_read(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<FileSlice, OpenReadError> {
+        let file_slice = self.directory.open_read(path)?;
+        let (footer, reader) = Footer::extract_footer(file_slice)
+            .map_err(|io_error| OpenReadError::wrap_io_error(io_error, path.to_path_buf()))?;
         footer.is_compatible()?;
         Ok(reader)
     }
 
-    fn open_write(&mut self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError> {
+    fn open_write(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError> {
         self.register_file_as_managed(path)
-            .map_err(|e| IOError::with_path(path.to_owned(), e))?;
+            .map_err(|io_error| OpenWriteError::wrap_io_error(io_error, path.to_path_buf()))?;
         Ok(io::BufWriter::new(Box::new(FooterProxy::new(
             self.directory
                 .open_write(path)?
@@ -284,7 +286,7 @@ impl Directory for ManagedDirectory {
         ))))
     }
 
-    fn atomic_write(&mut self, path: &Path, data: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
+    fn atomic_write(&self, path: &Path, data: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
         self.register_file_as_managed(path)?;
         self.directory.atomic_write(path, data)
     }
@@ -297,7 +299,7 @@ impl Directory for ManagedDirectory {
         self.directory.delete(path)
     }
 
-    fn exists(&self, path: &Path) -> bool {
+    fn exists(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<bool, OpenReadError> {
         self.directory.exists(path)
     }
 
@@ -325,7 +327,6 @@ mod tests_mmap_specific {
 
     use crate::directory::{Directory, ManagedDirectory, MmapDirectory, TerminatingWrite};
     use std::collections::HashSet;
-    use std::fs::OpenOptions;
     use std::io::Write;
     use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
     use tempfile::TempDir;
@@ -345,22 +346,22 @@ mod tests_mmap_specific {
             managed_directory
                 .atomic_write(test_path2, &[0u8, 1u8])
                 .unwrap();
-            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1));
-            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path2));
+            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1).unwrap());
+            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path2).unwrap());
             let living_files: HashSet<PathBuf> = [test_path1.to_owned()].iter().cloned().collect();
             assert!(managed_directory.garbage_collect(|| living_files).is_ok());
-            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1));
-            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path2));
+            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1).unwrap());
+            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path2).unwrap());
         }
         {
             let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::open(&tempdir_path).unwrap();
             let mut managed_directory = ManagedDirectory::wrap(mmap_directory).unwrap();
-            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1));
-            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path2));
+            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1).unwrap());
+            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path2).unwrap());
             let living_files: HashSet<PathBuf> = HashSet::new();
             assert!(managed_directory.garbage_collect(|| living_files).is_ok());
-            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path1));
-            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path2));
+            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path1).unwrap());
+            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path2).unwrap());
         }
     }
 
@@ -377,7 +378,7 @@ mod tests_mmap_specific {
         let mut write = managed_directory.open_write(test_path1).unwrap();
         write.write_all(&[0u8, 1u8]).unwrap();
         write.terminate().unwrap();
-        assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1));
+        assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1).unwrap());
 
         let _mmap_read = managed_directory.open_read(test_path1).unwrap();
         assert!(managed_directory
@@ -385,52 +386,13 @@ mod tests_mmap_specific {
             .is_ok());
         if cfg!(target_os = "windows") {
             // On Windows, gc should try and fail the file as it is mmapped.
-            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1));
+            assert!(managed_directory.exists(test_path1).unwrap());
             // unmap should happen here.
             drop(_mmap_read);
             // The file should still be in the list of managed file and
             // eventually be deleted once mmap is released.
             assert!(managed_directory.garbage_collect(|| living_files).is_ok());
-            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path1));
-        } else {
-            assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path1));
         }
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_checksum() {
-        let test_path1: &'static Path = Path::new("some_path_for_test");
-        let test_path2: &'static Path = Path::new("other_test_path");
-
-        let tempdir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
-        let tempdir_path = PathBuf::from(tempdir.path());
-
-        let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::open(&tempdir_path).unwrap();
-        let mut managed_directory = ManagedDirectory::wrap(mmap_directory).unwrap();
-        let mut write = managed_directory.open_write(test_path1).unwrap();
-        write.write_all(&[0u8, 1u8]).unwrap();
-        write.terminate().unwrap();
-
-        let mut write = managed_directory.open_write(test_path2).unwrap();
-        write.write_all(&[3u8, 4u8, 5u8]).unwrap();
-        write.terminate().unwrap();
-
-        let read_source = managed_directory.open_read(test_path2).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(read_source.as_slice(), &[3u8, 4u8, 5u8]);
-        assert!(managed_directory.list_damaged().unwrap().is_empty());
-
-        let mut corrupted_path = tempdir_path.clone();
-        corrupted_path.push(test_path2);
-        let mut file = OpenOptions::new()
-            .write(true)
-            .open(&corrupted_path)
-            .unwrap();
-        file.write_all(&[255u8]).unwrap();
-        file.flush().unwrap();
-        drop(file);
-
-        let damaged = managed_directory.list_damaged().unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(damaged.len(), 1);
-        assert!(damaged.contains(test_path2));
+        assert!(!managed_directory.exists(test_path1).unwrap());
     }
 }

src/directory/mmap_directory.rs

@@ -1,28 +1,19 @@
-use fs2;
-use notify;
-
-use self::fs2::FileExt;
-use self::notify::RawEvent;
-use self::notify::RecursiveMode;
-use self::notify::Watcher;
 use crate::core::META_FILEPATH;
 use crate::directory::error::LockError;
-use crate::directory::error::{
-    DeleteError, IOError, OpenDirectoryError, OpenReadError, OpenWriteError,
-};
-use crate::directory::read_only_source::BoxedData;
-use crate::directory::AntiCallToken;
+use crate::directory::error::{DeleteError, OpenDirectoryError, OpenReadError, OpenWriteError};
+use crate::directory::file_watcher::FileWatcher;
 use crate::directory::Directory;
 use crate::directory::DirectoryLock;
 use crate::directory::Lock;
-use crate::directory::ReadOnlySource;
 use crate::directory::WatchCallback;
-use crate::directory::WatchCallbackList;
 use crate::directory::WatchHandle;
+use crate::directory::{AntiCallToken, FileHandle, OwnedBytes};
+use crate::directory::{ArcBytes, WeakArcBytes};
 use crate::directory::{TerminatingWrite, WritePtr};
-use atomicwrites;
-use memmap::Mmap;
-use std::collections::HashMap;
+use fs2::FileExt;
+use memmap2::Mmap;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use stable_deref_trait::StableDeref;
 use std::convert::From;
 use std::fmt;
 use std::fs::OpenOptions;
@@ -31,12 +22,9 @@ use std::io::{self, Seek, SeekFrom};
 use std::io::{BufWriter, Read, Write};
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::result;
-use std::sync::mpsc::{channel, Receiver, Sender};
 use std::sync::Arc;
-use std::sync::Mutex;
 use std::sync::RwLock;
-use std::sync::Weak;
-use std::thread;
+use std::{collections::HashMap, ops::Deref};
 use tempfile::TempDir;
 
 /// Create a default io error given a string.
@@ -47,17 +35,17 @@ pub(crate) fn make_io_err(msg: String) -> io::Error {
 /// Returns None iff the file exists, can be read, but is empty (and hence
 /// cannot be mmapped)
 fn open_mmap(full_path: &Path) -> result::Result<Option<Mmap>, OpenReadError> {
-    let file = File::open(full_path).map_err(|e| {
-        if e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
-            OpenReadError::FileDoesNotExist(full_path.to_owned())
+    let file = File::open(full_path).map_err(|io_err| {
+        if io_err.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
+            OpenReadError::FileDoesNotExist(full_path.to_path_buf())
         } else {
-            OpenReadError::IOError(IOError::with_path(full_path.to_owned(), e))
+            OpenReadError::wrap_io_error(io_err, full_path.to_path_buf())
         }
     })?;
 
     let meta_data = file
         .metadata()
-        .map_err(|e| IOError::with_path(full_path.to_owned(), e))?;
+        .map_err(|io_err| OpenReadError::wrap_io_error(io_err, full_path.to_owned()))?;
     if meta_data.len() == 0 {
         // if the file size is 0, it will not be possible
         // to mmap the file, so we return None
@@ -65,9 +53,9 @@ fn open_mmap(full_path: &Path) -> result::Result<Option<Mmap>, OpenReadError> {
         return Ok(None);
     }
     unsafe {
-        memmap::Mmap::map(&file)
+        memmap2::Mmap::map(&file)
             .map(Some)
-            .map_err(|e| From::from(IOError::with_path(full_path.to_owned(), e)))
+            .map_err(|io_err| OpenReadError::wrap_io_error(io_err, full_path.to_path_buf()))
     }
 }
 
@@ -88,7 +76,7 @@ pub struct CacheInfo {
 
 struct MmapCache {
     counters: CacheCounters,
-    cache: HashMap<PathBuf, Weak<BoxedData>>,
+    cache: HashMap<PathBuf, WeakArcBytes>,
 }
 
 impl Default for MmapCache {
@@ -122,7 +110,7 @@ impl MmapCache {
     }
 
     // Returns None if the file exists but as a len of 0 (and hence is not mmappable).
-    fn get_mmap(&mut self, full_path: &Path) -> Result<Option<Arc<BoxedData>>, OpenReadError> {
+    fn get_mmap(&mut self, full_path: &Path) -> Result<Option<ArcBytes>, OpenReadError> {
         if let Some(mmap_weak) = self.cache.get(full_path) {
             if let Some(mmap_arc) = mmap_weak.upgrade() {
                 self.counters.hit += 1;
@@ -133,7 +121,7 @@ impl MmapCache {
         self.counters.miss += 1;
         let mmap_opt = open_mmap(full_path)?;
         Ok(mmap_opt.map(|mmap| {
-            let mmap_arc: Arc<BoxedData> = Arc::new(Box::new(mmap));
+            let mmap_arc: ArcBytes = Arc::new(mmap);
             let mmap_weak = Arc::downgrade(&mmap_arc);
             self.cache.insert(full_path.to_owned(), mmap_weak);
             mmap_arc
@@ -141,63 +129,6 @@ impl MmapCache {
     }
 }
 
-struct WatcherWrapper {
-    _watcher: Mutex<notify::RecommendedWatcher>,
-    watcher_router: Arc<WatchCallbackList>,
-}
-
-impl WatcherWrapper {
-    pub fn new(path: &Path) -> Result<Self, OpenDirectoryError> {
-        let (tx, watcher_recv): (Sender<RawEvent>, Receiver<RawEvent>) = channel();
-        // We need to initialize the
-        let watcher = notify::raw_watcher(tx)
-            .and_then(|mut watcher| {
-                watcher.watch(path, RecursiveMode::Recursive)?;
-                Ok(watcher)
-            })
-            .map_err(|err| match err {
-                notify::Error::PathNotFound => OpenDirectoryError::DoesNotExist(path.to_owned()),
-                _ => {
-                    panic!("Unknown error while starting watching directory {:?}", path);
-                }
-            })?;
-        let watcher_router: Arc<WatchCallbackList> = Default::default();
-        let watcher_router_clone = watcher_router.clone();
-        thread::Builder::new()
-            .name("meta-file-watch-thread".to_string())
-            .spawn(move || {
-                loop {
-                    match watcher_recv.recv().map(|evt| evt.path) {
-                        Ok(Some(changed_path)) => {
-                            // ... Actually subject to false positive.
-                            // We might want to be more accurate than this at one point.
-                            if let Some(filename) = changed_path.file_name() {
-                                if filename == *META_FILEPATH {
-                                    let _ = watcher_router_clone.broadcast();
-                                }
-                            }
-                        }
-                        Ok(None) => {
-                            // not an event we are interested in.
-                        }
-                        Err(_e) => {
-                            // the watch send channel was dropped
-                            break;
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-            })?;
-        Ok(WatcherWrapper {
-            _watcher: Mutex::new(watcher),
-            watcher_router,
-        })
-    }
-
-    pub fn watch(&mut self, watch_callback: WatchCallback) -> WatchHandle {
-        self.watcher_router.subscribe(watch_callback)
-    }
-}
-
 /// Directory storing data in files, read via mmap.
 ///
 /// The Mmap object are cached to limit the
@@ -219,44 +150,21 @@ struct MmapDirectoryInner {
     root_path: PathBuf,
     mmap_cache: RwLock<MmapCache>,
     _temp_directory: Option<TempDir>,
-    watcher: RwLock<Option<WatcherWrapper>>,
+    watcher: FileWatcher,
 }
 
 impl MmapDirectoryInner {
-    fn new(
-        root_path: PathBuf,
-        temp_directory: Option<TempDir>,
-    ) -> Result<MmapDirectoryInner, OpenDirectoryError> {
-        let mmap_directory_inner = MmapDirectoryInner {
-            root_path,
+    fn new(root_path: PathBuf, temp_directory: Option<TempDir>) -> MmapDirectoryInner {
+        MmapDirectoryInner {
             mmap_cache: Default::default(),
             _temp_directory: temp_directory,
-            watcher: RwLock::new(None),
-        };
-        Ok(mmap_directory_inner)
+            watcher: FileWatcher::new(&root_path.join(*META_FILEPATH)),
+            root_path,
+        }
     }
 
-    fn watch(&self, watch_callback: WatchCallback) -> crate::Result<WatchHandle> {
-        // a lot of juggling here, to ensure we don't do anything that panics
-        // while the rwlock is held. That way we ensure that the rwlock cannot
-        // be poisoned.
-        //
-        // The downside is that we might create a watch wrapper that is not useful.
-        let need_initialization = self.watcher.read().unwrap().is_none();
-        if need_initialization {
-            let watch_wrapper = WatcherWrapper::new(&self.root_path)?;
-            let mut watch_wlock = self.watcher.write().unwrap();
-            // the watcher could have been initialized when we released the lock, and
-            // we do not want to lose the watched files that were set.
-            if watch_wlock.is_none() {
-                *watch_wlock = Some(watch_wrapper);
-            }
-        }
-        if let Some(watch_wrapper) = self.watcher.write().unwrap().as_mut() {
-            Ok(watch_wrapper.watch(watch_callback))
-        } else {
-            unreachable!("At this point, watch wrapper is supposed to be initialized");
-        }
+    fn watch(&self, callback: WatchCallback) -> WatchHandle {
+        self.watcher.watch(callback)
     }
 }
 
@@ -267,24 +175,23 @@ impl fmt::Debug for MmapDirectory {
 }
 
 impl MmapDirectory {
-    fn new(
-        root_path: PathBuf,
-        temp_directory: Option<TempDir>,
-    ) -> Result<MmapDirectory, OpenDirectoryError> {
-        let inner = MmapDirectoryInner::new(root_path, temp_directory)?;
-        Ok(MmapDirectory {
+    fn new(root_path: PathBuf, temp_directory: Option<TempDir>) -> MmapDirectory {
+        let inner = MmapDirectoryInner::new(root_path, temp_directory);
+        MmapDirectory {
             inner: Arc::new(inner),
-        })
+        }
     }
 
     /// Creates a new MmapDirectory in a temporary directory.
     ///
     /// This is mostly useful to test the MmapDirectory itself.
-    /// For your unit tests, prefer the RAMDirectory.
+    /// For your unit tests, prefer the RamDirectory.
     pub fn create_from_tempdir() -> Result<MmapDirectory, OpenDirectoryError> {
-        let tempdir = TempDir::new().map_err(OpenDirectoryError::IoError)?;
-        let tempdir_path = PathBuf::from(tempdir.path());
-        MmapDirectory::new(tempdir_path, Some(tempdir))
+        let tempdir = TempDir::new().map_err(OpenDirectoryError::FailedToCreateTempDir)?;
+        Ok(MmapDirectory::new(
+            tempdir.path().to_path_buf(),
+            Some(tempdir),
+        ))
     }
 
     /// Opens a MmapDirectory in a directory.
@@ -302,7 +209,7 @@ impl MmapDirectory {
                 directory_path,
             )))
         } else {
-            Ok(MmapDirectory::new(PathBuf::from(directory_path), None)?)
+            Ok(MmapDirectory::new(PathBuf::from(directory_path), None))
         }
     }
 
@@ -406,8 +313,38 @@ impl TerminatingWrite for SafeFileWriter {
     }
 }
 
+#[derive(Clone)]
+struct MmapArc(Arc<dyn Deref<Target = [u8]> + Send + Sync>);
+
+impl Deref for MmapArc {
+    type Target = [u8];
+
+    fn deref(&self) -> &[u8] {
+        self.0.deref()
+    }
+}
+unsafe impl StableDeref for MmapArc {}
+
+/// Writes a file in an atomic manner.
+pub(crate) fn atomic_write(path: &Path, content: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
+    // We create the temporary file in the same directory as the target file.
+    // Indeed the canonical temp directory and the target file might sit in different
+    // filesystem, in which case the atomic write may actually not work.
+    let parent_path = path.parent().ok_or_else(|| {
+        io::Error::new(
+            io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
+            "Path {:?} does not have parent directory.",
+        )
+    })?;
+    let mut tempfile = tempfile::Builder::new().tempfile_in(&parent_path)?;
+    tempfile.write_all(content)?;
+    tempfile.flush()?;
+    tempfile.into_temp_path().persist(path)?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 impl Directory for MmapDirectory {
-    fn open_read(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<ReadOnlySource, OpenReadError> {
+    fn get_file_handle(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<Box<dyn FileHandle>, OpenReadError> {
         debug!("Open Read {:?}", path);
         let full_path = self.resolve_path(path);
 
@@ -417,12 +354,19 @@ impl Directory for MmapDirectory {
                  on mmap cache while reading {:?}",
                 path
             );
-            IOError::with_path(path.to_owned(), make_io_err(msg))
+            let io_err = make_io_err(msg);
+            OpenReadError::wrap_io_error(io_err, path.to_path_buf())
         })?;
-        Ok(mmap_cache
+
+        let owned_bytes = mmap_cache
             .get_mmap(&full_path)?
-            .map(ReadOnlySource::from)
-            .unwrap_or_else(ReadOnlySource::empty))
+            .map(|mmap_arc| {
+                let mmap_arc_obj = MmapArc(mmap_arc);
+                OwnedBytes::new(mmap_arc_obj)
+            })
+            .unwrap_or_else(OwnedBytes::empty);
+
+        Ok(Box::new(owned_bytes))
     }
 
     /// Any entry associated to the path in the mmap will be
@@ -430,25 +374,29 @@ impl Directory for MmapDirectory {
     fn delete(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<(), DeleteError> {
         let full_path = self.resolve_path(path);
         match fs::remove_file(&full_path) {
-            Ok(_) => self
-                .sync_directory()
-                .map_err(|e| IOError::with_path(path.to_owned(), e).into()),
+            Ok(_) => self.sync_directory().map_err(|e| DeleteError::IoError {
+                io_error: e,
+                filepath: path.to_path_buf(),
+            }),
             Err(e) => {
                 if e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
                     Err(DeleteError::FileDoesNotExist(path.to_owned()))
                 } else {
-                    Err(IOError::with_path(path.to_owned(), e).into())
+                    Err(DeleteError::IoError {
+                        io_error: e,
+                        filepath: path.to_path_buf(),
+                    })
                 }
             }
         }
     }
 
-    fn exists(&self, path: &Path) -> bool {
+    fn exists(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<bool, OpenReadError> {
         let full_path = self.resolve_path(path);
-        full_path.exists()
+        Ok(full_path.exists())
     }
 
-    fn open_write(&mut self, path: &Path) -> Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError> {
+    fn open_write(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError> {
         debug!("Open Write {:?}", path);
         let full_path = self.resolve_path(path);
 
@@ -457,22 +405,22 @@ impl Directory for MmapDirectory {
             .create_new(true)
             .open(full_path);
 
-        let mut file = open_res.map_err(|err| {
-            if err.kind() == io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists {
-                OpenWriteError::FileAlreadyExists(path.to_owned())
+        let mut file = open_res.map_err(|io_err| {
+            if io_err.kind() == io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists {
+                OpenWriteError::FileAlreadyExists(path.to_path_buf())
             } else {
-                IOError::with_path(path.to_owned(), err).into()
+                OpenWriteError::wrap_io_error(io_err, path.to_path_buf())
             }
         })?;
 
         // making sure the file is created.
         file.flush()
-            .map_err(|e| IOError::with_path(path.to_owned(), e))?;
+            .map_err(|io_error| OpenWriteError::wrap_io_error(io_error, path.to_path_buf()))?;
 
         // Apparetntly, on some filesystem syncing the parent
         // directory is required.
         self.sync_directory()
-            .map_err(|e| IOError::with_path(path.to_owned(), e))?;
+            .map_err(|io_err| OpenWriteError::wrap_io_error(io_err, path.to_path_buf()))?;
 
         let writer = SafeFileWriter::new(file);
         Ok(BufWriter::new(Box::new(writer)))
@@ -483,26 +431,26 @@ impl Directory for MmapDirectory {
         let mut buffer = Vec::new();
         match File::open(&full_path) {
             Ok(mut file) => {
-                file.read_to_end(&mut buffer)
-                    .map_err(|e| IOError::with_path(path.to_owned(), e))?;
+                file.read_to_end(&mut buffer).map_err(|io_error| {
+                    OpenReadError::wrap_io_error(io_error, path.to_path_buf())
+                })?;
                 Ok(buffer)
             }
-            Err(e) => {
-                if e.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
+            Err(io_error) => {
+                if io_error.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
                     Err(OpenReadError::FileDoesNotExist(path.to_owned()))
                 } else {
-                    Err(IOError::with_path(path.to_owned(), e).into())
+                    Err(OpenReadError::wrap_io_error(io_error, path.to_path_buf()))
                 }
             }
         }
     }
 
-    fn atomic_write(&mut self, path: &Path, data: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
+    fn atomic_write(&self, path: &Path, content: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
         debug!("Atomic Write {:?}", path);
         let full_path = self.resolve_path(path);
-        let meta_file = atomicwrites::AtomicFile::new(full_path, atomicwrites::AllowOverwrite);
-        meta_file.write(|f| f.write_all(data))?;
-        Ok(())
+        atomic_write(&full_path, content)?;
+        self.sync_directory()
     }
 
     fn acquire_lock(&self, lock: &Lock) -> Result<DirectoryLock, LockError> {
@@ -512,9 +460,9 @@ impl Directory for MmapDirectory {
             .write(true)
             .create(true) //< if the file does not exist yet, create it.
             .open(&full_path)
-            .map_err(LockError::IOError)?;
+            .map_err(LockError::IoError)?;
         if lock.is_blocking {
-            file.lock_exclusive().map_err(LockError::IOError)?;
+            file.lock_exclusive().map_err(LockError::IoError)?;
         } else {
             file.try_lock_exclusive().map_err(|_| LockError::LockBusy)?
         }
@@ -526,7 +474,7 @@ impl Directory for MmapDirectory {
     }
 
     fn watch(&self, watch_callback: WatchCallback) -> crate::Result<WatchHandle> {
-        self.inner.watch(watch_callback)
+        Ok(self.inner.watch(watch_callback))
     }
 }
 
@@ -538,11 +486,13 @@ mod tests {
 
     use super::*;
     use crate::indexer::LogMergePolicy;
-    use crate::schema::{Schema, SchemaBuilder, TEXT};
     use crate::Index;
     use crate::ReloadPolicy;
-    use std::fs;
-    use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
+    use crate::{
+        schema::{Schema, SchemaBuilder, TEXT},
+        IndexSettings,
+    };
+    use common::HasLen;
 
     #[test]
     fn test_open_non_existent_path() {
@@ -555,7 +505,7 @@ mod tests {
         // cannot be mmapped.
         //
         // In that case the directory returns a SharedVecSlice.
-        let mut mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::create_from_tempdir().unwrap();
+        let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::create_from_tempdir().unwrap();
         let path = PathBuf::from("test");
         {
             let mut w = mmap_directory.open_write(&path).unwrap();
@@ -571,7 +521,7 @@ mod tests {
 
         // here we test if the cache releases
         // mmaps correctly.
-        let mut mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::create_from_tempdir().unwrap();
+        let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::create_from_tempdir().unwrap();
         let num_paths = 10;
         let paths: Vec<PathBuf> = (0..num_paths)
             .map(|i| PathBuf::from(&*format!("file_{}", i)))
@@ -631,27 +581,6 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(mmap_directory.get_cache_info().mmapped.len(), 0);
     }
 
-    #[test]
-    fn test_watch_wrapper() {
-        let counter: Arc<AtomicUsize> = Default::default();
-        let counter_clone = counter.clone();
-        let tmp_dir = tempfile::TempDir::new().unwrap();
-        let tmp_dirpath = tmp_dir.path().to_owned();
-        let mut watch_wrapper = WatcherWrapper::new(&tmp_dirpath).unwrap();
-        let tmp_file = tmp_dirpath.join(*META_FILEPATH);
-        let _handle = watch_wrapper.watch(Box::new(move || {
-            counter_clone.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
-        }));
-        let (sender, receiver) = crossbeam::channel::unbounded();
-        let _handle2 = watch_wrapper.watch(Box::new(move || {
-            let _ = sender.send(());
-        }));
-        assert_eq!(counter.load(Ordering::SeqCst), 0);
-        fs::write(&tmp_file, b"whateverwilldo").unwrap();
-        assert!(receiver.recv().is_ok());
-        assert!(counter.load(Ordering::SeqCst) >= 1);
-    }
-
     #[test]
     fn test_mmap_released() {
         let mmap_directory = MmapDirectory::create_from_tempdir().unwrap();
@@ -660,11 +589,12 @@ mod tests {
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
 
         {
-            let index = Index::create(mmap_directory.clone(), schema).unwrap();
+            let index =
+                Index::create(mmap_directory.clone(), schema, IndexSettings::default()).unwrap();
 
-            let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+            let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
             let mut log_merge_policy = LogMergePolicy::default();
-            log_merge_policy.set_min_merge_size(3);
+            log_merge_policy.set_min_num_segments(3);
             index_writer.set_merge_policy(Box::new(log_merge_policy));
             for _num_commits in 0..10 {
                 for _ in 0..10 {
@@ -689,8 +619,10 @@ mod tests {
             reader.reload().unwrap();
             let num_segments = reader.searcher().segment_readers().len();
             assert!(num_segments <= 4);
+            let num_components_except_deletes_and_tempstore =
+                crate::core::SegmentComponent::iterator().len() - 2;
             assert_eq!(
-                num_segments * 7,
+                num_segments * num_components_except_deletes_and_tempstore,
                 mmap_directory.get_cache_info().mmapped.len()
             );
         }

src/directory/mod.rs

@@ -9,23 +9,33 @@ mod mmap_directory;
 
 mod directory;
 mod directory_lock;
+mod file_slice;
+mod file_watcher;
 mod footer;
 mod managed_directory;
+mod owned_bytes;
 mod ram_directory;
-mod read_only_source;
 mod watch_event_router;
 
 /// Errors specific to the directory module.
 pub mod error;
 
+mod composite_file;
+
+pub(crate) use self::composite_file::{CompositeFile, CompositeWrite};
 pub use self::directory::DirectoryLock;
 pub use self::directory::{Directory, DirectoryClone};
 pub use self::directory_lock::{Lock, INDEX_WRITER_LOCK, META_LOCK};
-pub use self::ram_directory::RAMDirectory;
-pub use self::read_only_source::ReadOnlySource;
+pub(crate) use self::file_slice::{ArcBytes, WeakArcBytes};
+pub use self::file_slice::{FileHandle, FileSlice};
+pub use self::owned_bytes::OwnedBytes;
+pub use self::ram_directory::RamDirectory;
 pub use self::watch_event_router::{WatchCallback, WatchCallbackList, WatchHandle};
-use std::io::{self, BufWriter, Write};
+pub use common::AntiCallToken;
+pub use common::TerminatingWrite;
+use std::io::BufWriter;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
+
 /// Outcome of the Garbage collection
 pub struct GarbageCollectionResult {
     /// List of files that were deleted in this cycle
@@ -45,47 +55,6 @@ pub use self::mmap_directory::MmapDirectory;
 
 pub use self::managed_directory::ManagedDirectory;
 
-/// Struct used to prevent from calling [`terminate_ref`](trait.TerminatingWrite#method.terminate_ref) directly
-///
-/// The point is that while the type is public, it cannot be built by anyone
-/// outside of this module.
-pub struct AntiCallToken(());
-
-/// Trait used to indicate when no more write need to be done on a writer
-pub trait TerminatingWrite: Write {
-    /// Indicate that the writer will no longer be used. Internally call terminate_ref.
-    fn terminate(mut self) -> io::Result<()>
-    where
-        Self: Sized,
-    {
-        self.terminate_ref(AntiCallToken(()))
-    }
-
-    /// You should implement this function to define custom behavior.
-    /// This function should flush any buffer it may hold.
-    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, _: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()>;
-}
-
-impl<W: TerminatingWrite + ?Sized> TerminatingWrite for Box<W> {
-    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, token: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()> {
-        self.as_mut().terminate_ref(token)
-    }
-}
-
-impl<W: TerminatingWrite> TerminatingWrite for BufWriter<W> {
-    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, a: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()> {
-        self.flush()?;
-        self.get_mut().terminate_ref(a)
-    }
-}
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-impl<'a> TerminatingWrite for &'a mut Vec<u8> {
-    fn terminate_ref(&mut self, _a: AntiCallToken) -> io::Result<()> {
-        self.flush()
-    }
-}
-
 /// Write object for Directory.
 ///
 /// `WritePtr` are required to implement both Write

src/directory/owned_bytes.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+use crate::directory::FileHandle;
+use std::io;
+use std::ops::Range;
+
+pub use ownedbytes::OwnedBytes;
+
+impl FileHandle for OwnedBytes {
+    fn read_bytes(&self, range: Range<usize>) -> io::Result<OwnedBytes> {
+        Ok(self.slice(range))
+    }
+}

src/directory/ram_directory.rs

@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ use crate::core::META_FILEPATH;
 use crate::directory::error::{DeleteError, OpenReadError, OpenWriteError};
 use crate::directory::AntiCallToken;
 use crate::directory::WatchCallbackList;
-use crate::directory::{Directory, ReadOnlySource, WatchCallback, WatchHandle};
+use crate::directory::{Directory, FileSlice, WatchCallback, WatchHandle};
 use crate::directory::{TerminatingWrite, WritePtr};
+use common::HasLen;
 use fail::fail_point;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::fmt;
@@ -12,7 +13,9 @@ use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::result;
 use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
 
-/// Writer associated with the `RAMDirectory`
+use super::FileHandle;
+
+/// Writer associated with the `RamDirectory`
 ///
 /// The Writer just writes a buffer.
 ///
@@ -24,13 +27,13 @@ use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
 ///
 struct VecWriter {
     path: PathBuf,
-    shared_directory: RAMDirectory,
+    shared_directory: RamDirectory,
     data: Cursor<Vec<u8>>,
     is_flushed: bool,
 }
 
 impl VecWriter {
-    fn new(path_buf: PathBuf, shared_directory: RAMDirectory) -> VecWriter {
+    fn new(path_buf: PathBuf, shared_directory: RamDirectory) -> VecWriter {
         VecWriter {
             path: path_buf,
             data: Cursor::new(Vec::new()),
@@ -44,7 +47,7 @@ impl Drop for VecWriter {
     fn drop(&mut self) {
         if !self.is_flushed {
             panic!(
-                "You forgot to flush {:?} before its writter got Drop. Do not rely on drop.",
+                "You forgot to flush {:?} before its writter got Drop. Do not rely on drop. This also occurs when the indexer crashed, so you may want to check the logs for the root cause.",
                 self.path
             )
         }
@@ -80,17 +83,17 @@ impl TerminatingWrite for VecWriter {
 
 #[derive(Default)]
 struct InnerDirectory {
-    fs: HashMap<PathBuf, ReadOnlySource>,
+    fs: HashMap<PathBuf, FileSlice>,
     watch_router: WatchCallbackList,
 }
 
 impl InnerDirectory {
     fn write(&mut self, path: PathBuf, data: &[u8]) -> bool {
-        let data = ReadOnlySource::new(Vec::from(data));
+        let data = FileSlice::from(data.to_vec());
         self.fs.insert(path, data).is_some()
     }
 
-    fn open_read(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<ReadOnlySource, OpenReadError> {
+    fn open_read(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<FileSlice, OpenReadError> {
         self.fs
             .get(path)
             .ok_or_else(|| OpenReadError::FileDoesNotExist(PathBuf::from(path)))
@@ -117,9 +120,9 @@ impl InnerDirectory {
     }
 }
 
-impl fmt::Debug for RAMDirectory {
+impl fmt::Debug for RamDirectory {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        write!(f, "RAMDirectory")
+        write!(f, "RamDirectory")
     }
 }
 
@@ -129,42 +132,71 @@ impl fmt::Debug for RAMDirectory {
 /// Writes are only made visible upon flushing.
 ///
 #[derive(Clone, Default)]
-pub struct RAMDirectory {
+pub struct RamDirectory {
     fs: Arc<RwLock<InnerDirectory>>,
 }
 
-impl RAMDirectory {
+impl RamDirectory {
     /// Constructor
-    pub fn create() -> RAMDirectory {
+    pub fn create() -> RamDirectory {
         Self::default()
     }
 
     /// Returns the sum of the size of the different files
-    /// in the RAMDirectory.
+    /// in the RamDirectory.
     pub fn total_mem_usage(&self) -> usize {
         self.fs.read().unwrap().total_mem_usage()
     }
+
+    /// Write a copy of all of the files saved in the RamDirectory in the target `Directory`.
+    ///
+    /// Files are all written using the `Directory::write` meaning, even if they were
+    /// written using the `atomic_write` api.
+    ///
+    /// If an error is encounterred, files may be persisted partially.
+    pub fn persist(&self, dest: &dyn Directory) -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let wlock = self.fs.write().unwrap();
+        for (path, file) in wlock.fs.iter() {
+            let mut dest_wrt = dest.open_write(path)?;
+            dest_wrt.write_all(file.read_bytes()?.as_slice())?;
+            dest_wrt.terminate()?;
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
 }
 
-impl Directory for RAMDirectory {
-    fn open_read(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<ReadOnlySource, OpenReadError> {
+impl Directory for RamDirectory {
+    fn get_file_handle(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<Box<dyn FileHandle>, OpenReadError> {
+        let file_slice = self.open_read(path)?;
+        Ok(Box::new(file_slice))
+    }
+
+    fn open_read(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<FileSlice, OpenReadError> {
         self.fs.read().unwrap().open_read(path)
     }
 
     fn delete(&self, path: &Path) -> result::Result<(), DeleteError> {
-        fail_point!("RAMDirectory::delete", |_| {
-            use crate::directory::error::IOError;
-            let io_error = IOError::from(io::Error::from(io::ErrorKind::Other));
-            Err(DeleteError::from(io_error))
+        fail_point!("RamDirectory::delete", |_| {
+            Err(DeleteError::IoError {
+                io_error: io::Error::from(io::ErrorKind::Other),
+                filepath: path.to_path_buf(),
+            })
         });
         self.fs.write().unwrap().delete(path)
     }
 
-    fn exists(&self, path: &Path) -> bool {
-        self.fs.read().unwrap().exists(path)
+    fn exists(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<bool, OpenReadError> {
+        Ok(self
+            .fs
+            .read()
+            .map_err(|e| OpenReadError::IoError {
+                io_error: io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, e.to_string()),
+                filepath: path.to_path_buf(),
+            })?
+            .exists(path))
     }
 
-    fn open_write(&mut self, path: &Path) -> Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError> {
+    fn open_write(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<WritePtr, OpenWriteError> {
         let mut fs = self.fs.write().unwrap();
         let path_buf = PathBuf::from(path);
         let vec_writer = VecWriter::new(path_buf.clone(), self.clone());
@@ -178,23 +210,26 @@ impl Directory for RAMDirectory {
     }
 
     fn atomic_read(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<Vec<u8>, OpenReadError> {
-        Ok(self.open_read(path)?.as_slice().to_owned())
+        let bytes =
+            self.open_read(path)?
+                .read_bytes()
+                .map_err(|io_error| OpenReadError::IoError {
+                    io_error,
+                    filepath: path.to_path_buf(),
+                })?;
+        Ok(bytes.as_slice().to_owned())
     }
 
-    fn atomic_write(&mut self, path: &Path, data: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
-        fail_point!("RAMDirectory::atomic_write", |msg| Err(io::Error::new(
+    fn atomic_write(&self, path: &Path, data: &[u8]) -> io::Result<()> {
+        fail_point!("RamDirectory::atomic_write", |msg| Err(io::Error::new(
             io::ErrorKind::Other,
             msg.unwrap_or_else(|| "Undefined".to_string())
         )));
         let path_buf = PathBuf::from(path);
 
-        // Reserve the path to prevent calls to .write() to succeed.
-        self.fs.write().unwrap().write(path_buf.clone(), &[]);
+        self.fs.write().unwrap().write(path_buf, data);
 
-        let mut vec_writer = VecWriter::new(path_buf, self.clone());
-        vec_writer.write_all(data)?;
-        vec_writer.flush()?;
-        if path == Path::new(&*META_FILEPATH) {
+        if path == *META_FILEPATH {
             let _ = self.fs.write().unwrap().watch_router.broadcast();
         }
         Ok(())
@@ -204,3 +239,28 @@ impl Directory for RAMDirectory {
         Ok(self.fs.write().unwrap().watch(watch_callback))
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::RamDirectory;
+    use crate::Directory;
+    use std::io::Write;
+    use std::path::Path;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_persist() {
+        let msg_atomic: &'static [u8] = b"atomic is the way";
+        let msg_seq: &'static [u8] = b"sequential is the way";
+        let path_atomic: &'static Path = Path::new("atomic");
+        let path_seq: &'static Path = Path::new("seq");
+        let directory = RamDirectory::create();
+        assert!(directory.atomic_write(path_atomic, msg_atomic).is_ok());
+        let mut wrt = directory.open_write(path_seq).unwrap();
+        assert!(wrt.write_all(msg_seq).is_ok());
+        assert!(wrt.flush().is_ok());
+        let directory_copy = RamDirectory::create();
+        assert!(directory.persist(&directory_copy).is_ok());
+        assert_eq!(directory_copy.atomic_read(path_atomic).unwrap(), msg_atomic);
+        assert_eq!(directory_copy.atomic_read(path_seq).unwrap(), msg_seq);
+    }
+}

src/directory/read_only_source.rs

@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
-use crate::common::HasLen;
-use stable_deref_trait::{CloneStableDeref, StableDeref};
-use std::ops::Deref;
-use std::sync::Arc;
-
-pub type BoxedData = Box<dyn Deref<Target = [u8]> + Send + Sync + 'static>;
-
-/// Read object that represents files in tantivy.
-///
-/// These read objects are only in charge to deliver
-/// the data in the form of a constant read-only `&[u8]`.
-/// Whatever happens to the directory file, the data
-/// hold by this object should never be altered or destroyed.
-pub struct ReadOnlySource {
-    data: Arc<BoxedData>,
-    start: usize,
-    stop: usize,
-}
-
-unsafe impl StableDeref for ReadOnlySource {}
-unsafe impl CloneStableDeref for ReadOnlySource {}
-
-impl Deref for ReadOnlySource {
-    type Target = [u8];
-
-    fn deref(&self) -> &[u8] {
-        self.as_slice()
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<Arc<BoxedData>> for ReadOnlySource {
-    fn from(data: Arc<BoxedData>) -> Self {
-        let len = data.len();
-        ReadOnlySource {
-            data,
-            start: 0,
-            stop: len,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl ReadOnlySource {
-    pub(crate) fn new<D>(data: D) -> ReadOnlySource
-    where
-        D: Deref<Target = [u8]> + Send + Sync + 'static,
-    {
-        let len = data.len();
-        ReadOnlySource {
-            data: Arc::new(Box::new(data)),
-            start: 0,
-            stop: len,
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// Creates an empty ReadOnlySource
-    pub fn empty() -> ReadOnlySource {
-        ReadOnlySource::new(&[][..])
-    }
-
-    /// Returns the data underlying the ReadOnlySource object.
-    pub fn as_slice(&self) -> &[u8] {
-        &self.data[self.start..self.stop]
-    }
-
-    /// Splits into 2 `ReadOnlySource`, at the offset given
-    /// as an argument.
-    pub fn split(self, addr: usize) -> (ReadOnlySource, ReadOnlySource) {
-        let left = self.slice(0, addr);
-        let right = self.slice_from(addr);
-        (left, right)
-    }
-
-    /// Splits into 2 `ReadOnlySource`, at the offset `end - right_len`.
-    pub fn split_from_end(self, right_len: usize) -> (ReadOnlySource, ReadOnlySource) {
-        let left_len = self.len() - right_len;
-        self.split(left_len)
-    }
-
-    /// Creates a ReadOnlySource that is just a
-    /// view over a slice of the data.
-    ///
-    /// Keep in mind that any living slice extends
-    /// the lifetime of the original ReadOnlySource,
-    ///
-    /// For instance, if `ReadOnlySource` wraps 500MB
-    /// worth of data in anonymous memory, and only a
-    /// 1KB slice is remaining, the whole `500MBs`
-    /// are retained in memory.
-    pub fn slice(&self, start: usize, stop: usize) -> ReadOnlySource {
-        assert!(
-            start <= stop,
-            "Requested negative slice [{}..{}]",
-            start,
-            stop
-        );
-        assert!(stop <= self.len());
-        ReadOnlySource {
-            data: self.data.clone(),
-            start: self.start + start,
-            stop: self.start + stop,
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// Like `.slice(...)` but enforcing only the `from`
-    /// boundary.
-    ///
-    /// Equivalent to `.slice(from_offset, self.len())`
-    pub fn slice_from(&self, from_offset: usize) -> ReadOnlySource {
-        self.slice(from_offset, self.len())
-    }
-
-    /// Like `.slice(...)` but enforcing only the `to`
-    /// boundary.
-    ///
-    /// Equivalent to `.slice(0, to_offset)`
-    pub fn slice_to(&self, to_offset: usize) -> ReadOnlySource {
-        self.slice(0, to_offset)
-    }
-}
-
-impl HasLen for ReadOnlySource {
-    fn len(&self) -> usize {
-        self.stop - self.start
-    }
-}
-
-impl Clone for ReadOnlySource {
-    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
-        self.slice_from(0)
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<Vec<u8>> for ReadOnlySource {
-    fn from(data: Vec<u8>) -> ReadOnlySource {
-        ReadOnlySource::new(data)
-    }
-}

src/directory/tests.rs

@@ -20,97 +20,101 @@ mod mmap_directory_tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_simple() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_simple(&mut directory);
+    fn test_simple() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_simple(&directory)
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_write_create_the_file() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_write_create_the_file(&mut directory);
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_write_create_the_file(&directory);
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_rewrite_forbidden() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_rewrite_forbidden(&mut directory);
+    fn test_rewrite_forbidden() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_rewrite_forbidden(&directory)?;
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_directory_delete() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_directory_delete(&mut directory);
+    fn test_directory_delete() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_directory_delete(&directory)?;
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_lock_non_blocking() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_lock_non_blocking(&mut directory);
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_lock_non_blocking(&directory);
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_lock_blocking() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_lock_blocking(&mut directory);
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_lock_blocking(&directory);
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_watch() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_watch(&mut directory);
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_watch(&directory);
     }
 }
 
 mod ram_directory_tests {
-    use crate::directory::RAMDirectory;
+    use crate::directory::RamDirectory;
 
-    type DirectoryImpl = RAMDirectory;
+    type DirectoryImpl = RamDirectory;
 
     fn make_directory() -> DirectoryImpl {
-        RAMDirectory::default()
+        RamDirectory::default()
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_simple() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_simple(&mut directory);
+    fn test_simple() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_simple(&directory)
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_write_create_the_file() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_write_create_the_file(&mut directory);
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_write_create_the_file(&directory);
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_rewrite_forbidden() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_rewrite_forbidden(&mut directory);
+    fn test_rewrite_forbidden() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_rewrite_forbidden(&directory)?;
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_directory_delete() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_directory_delete(&mut directory);
+    fn test_directory_delete() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_directory_delete(&directory)?;
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_lock_non_blocking() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_lock_non_blocking(&mut directory);
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_lock_non_blocking(&directory);
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_lock_blocking() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_lock_blocking(&mut directory);
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_lock_blocking(&directory);
     }
 
     #[test]
     fn test_watch() {
-        let mut directory = make_directory();
-        super::test_watch(&mut directory);
+        let directory = make_directory();
+        super::test_watch(&directory);
     }
 }
 
@@ -118,115 +122,104 @@ mod ram_directory_tests {
 #[should_panic]
 fn ram_directory_panics_if_flush_forgotten() {
     let test_path: &'static Path = Path::new("some_path_for_test");
-    let mut ram_directory = RAMDirectory::create();
+    let ram_directory = RamDirectory::create();
     let mut write_file = ram_directory.open_write(test_path).unwrap();
     assert!(write_file.write_all(&[4]).is_ok());
 }
 
-fn test_simple(directory: &mut dyn Directory) {
+fn test_simple(directory: &dyn Directory) -> crate::Result<()> {
     let test_path: &'static Path = Path::new("some_path_for_test");
-    {
-        let mut write_file = directory.open_write(test_path).unwrap();
-        assert!(directory.exists(test_path));
-        write_file.write_all(&[4]).unwrap();
-        write_file.write_all(&[3]).unwrap();
-        write_file.write_all(&[7, 3, 5]).unwrap();
-        write_file.flush().unwrap();
-    }
-    {
-        let read_file = directory.open_read(test_path).unwrap();
-        let data: &[u8] = &*read_file;
-        assert_eq!(data, &[4u8, 3u8, 7u8, 3u8, 5u8]);
-    }
+    let mut write_file = directory.open_write(test_path)?;
+    assert!(directory.exists(test_path).unwrap());
+    write_file.write_all(&[4])?;
+    write_file.write_all(&[3])?;
+    write_file.write_all(&[7, 3, 5])?;
+    write_file.flush()?;
+    let read_file = directory.open_read(test_path)?.read_bytes()?;
+    assert_eq!(read_file.as_slice(), &[4u8, 3u8, 7u8, 3u8, 5u8]);
+    mem::drop(read_file);
     assert!(directory.delete(test_path).is_ok());
-    assert!(!directory.exists(test_path));
+    assert!(!directory.exists(test_path).unwrap());
+    Ok(())
 }
 
-fn test_rewrite_forbidden(directory: &mut dyn Directory) {
+fn test_rewrite_forbidden(directory: &dyn Directory) -> crate::Result<()> {
     let test_path: &'static Path = Path::new("some_path_for_test");
-    {
-        directory.open_write(test_path).unwrap();
-        assert!(directory.exists(test_path));
-    }
-    {
-        assert!(directory.open_write(test_path).is_err());
-    }
+    directory.open_write(test_path)?;
+    assert!(directory.exists(test_path).unwrap());
+    assert!(directory.open_write(test_path).is_err());
     assert!(directory.delete(test_path).is_ok());
+    Ok(())
 }
 
-fn test_write_create_the_file(directory: &mut dyn Directory) {
+fn test_write_create_the_file(directory: &dyn Directory) {
     let test_path: &'static Path = Path::new("some_path_for_test");
     {
         assert!(directory.open_read(test_path).is_err());
         let _w = directory.open_write(test_path).unwrap();
-        assert!(directory.exists(test_path));
+        assert!(directory.exists(test_path).unwrap());
         assert!(directory.open_read(test_path).is_ok());
         assert!(directory.delete(test_path).is_ok());
     }
 }
 
-fn test_directory_delete(directory: &mut dyn Directory) {
+fn test_directory_delete(directory: &dyn Directory) -> crate::Result<()> {
     let test_path: &'static Path = Path::new("some_path_for_test");
     assert!(directory.open_read(test_path).is_err());
-    let mut write_file = directory.open_write(&test_path).unwrap();
-    write_file.write_all(&[1, 2, 3, 4]).unwrap();
-    write_file.flush().unwrap();
+    let mut write_file = directory.open_write(test_path)?;
+    write_file.write_all(&[1, 2, 3, 4])?;
+    write_file.flush()?;
     {
-        let read_handle = directory.open_read(&test_path).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(&*read_handle, &[1u8, 2u8, 3u8, 4u8]);
+        let read_handle = directory.open_read(test_path)?.read_bytes()?;
+        assert_eq!(read_handle.as_slice(), &[1u8, 2u8, 3u8, 4u8]);
         // Mapped files can't be deleted on Windows
         if !cfg!(windows) {
-            assert!(directory.delete(&test_path).is_ok());
-            assert_eq!(&*read_handle, &[1u8, 2u8, 3u8, 4u8]);
+            assert!(directory.delete(test_path).is_ok());
+            assert_eq!(read_handle.as_slice(), &[1u8, 2u8, 3u8, 4u8]);
         }
-
         assert!(directory.delete(Path::new("SomeOtherPath")).is_err());
     }
 
     if cfg!(windows) {
-        assert!(directory.delete(&test_path).is_ok());
+        assert!(directory.delete(test_path).is_ok());
     }
 
-    assert!(directory.open_read(&test_path).is_err());
-    assert!(directory.delete(&test_path).is_err());
+    assert!(directory.open_read(test_path).is_err());
+    assert!(directory.delete(test_path).is_err());
+    Ok(())
 }
 
-fn test_watch(directory: &mut dyn Directory) {
-    let num_progress: Arc<AtomicUsize> = Default::default();
+fn test_watch(directory: &dyn Directory) {
     let counter: Arc<AtomicUsize> = Default::default();
-    let counter_clone = counter.clone();
-    let (sender, receiver) = crossbeam::channel::unbounded();
-    let watch_callback = Box::new(move || {
-        counter_clone.fetch_add(1, SeqCst);
-    });
-    // This callback is used to synchronize watching in our unit test.
-    // We bind it to a variable because the callback is removed when that
-    // handle is dropped.
-    let watch_handle = directory.watch(watch_callback).unwrap();
-    let _progress_listener = directory
-        .watch(Box::new(move || {
-            let val = num_progress.fetch_add(1, SeqCst);
-            let _ = sender.send(val);
+    let (tx, rx) = crossbeam::channel::unbounded();
+    let timeout = Duration::from_millis(500);
+
+    let handle = directory
+        .watch(WatchCallback::new(move || {
+            let val = counter.fetch_add(1, SeqCst);
+            tx.send(val + 1).unwrap();
         }))
         .unwrap();
 
-    for i in 0..10 {
-        assert_eq!(i, counter.load(SeqCst));
-        assert!(directory
-            .atomic_write(Path::new("meta.json"), b"random_test_data_2")
-            .is_ok());
-        assert_eq!(receiver.recv_timeout(Duration::from_millis(500)), Ok(i));
-        assert_eq!(i + 1, counter.load(SeqCst));
-    }
-    mem::drop(watch_handle);
     assert!(directory
-        .atomic_write(Path::new("meta.json"), b"random_test_data")
+        .atomic_write(Path::new("meta.json"), b"foo")
         .is_ok());
-    assert!(receiver.recv_timeout(Duration::from_millis(500)).is_ok());
-    assert_eq!(10, counter.load(SeqCst));
+    assert_eq!(rx.recv_timeout(timeout), Ok(1));
+
+    assert!(directory
+        .atomic_write(Path::new("meta.json"), b"bar")
+        .is_ok());
+    assert_eq!(rx.recv_timeout(timeout), Ok(2));
+
+    mem::drop(handle);
+
+    assert!(directory
+        .atomic_write(Path::new("meta.json"), b"qux")
+        .is_ok());
+    assert!(rx.recv_timeout(timeout).is_err());
 }
 
-fn test_lock_non_blocking(directory: &mut dyn Directory) {
+fn test_lock_non_blocking(directory: &dyn Directory) {
     {
         let lock_a_res = directory.acquire_lock(&Lock {
             filepath: PathBuf::from("a.lock"),
@@ -251,7 +244,7 @@ fn test_lock_non_blocking(directory: &mut dyn Directory) {
     assert!(lock_a_res.is_ok());
 }
 
-fn test_lock_blocking(directory: &mut dyn Directory) {
+fn test_lock_blocking(directory: &dyn Directory) {
     let lock_a_res = directory.acquire_lock(&Lock {
         filepath: PathBuf::from("a.lock"),
         is_blocking: true,

src/directory/watch_event_router.rs

@@ -4,8 +4,20 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::sync::RwLock;
 use std::sync::Weak;
 
-/// Type alias for callbacks registered when watching files of a `Directory`.
-pub type WatchCallback = Box<dyn Fn() -> () + Sync + Send>;
+/// Cloneable wrapper for callbacks registered when watching files of a `Directory`.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct WatchCallback(Arc<dyn Fn() + Sync + Send>);
+
+impl WatchCallback {
+    /// Wraps a `Fn()` to create a WatchCallback.
+    pub fn new<F: Fn() + Sync + Send + 'static>(op: F) -> Self {
+        WatchCallback(Arc::new(op))
+    }
+
+    fn call(&self) {
+        self.0()
+    }
+}
 
 /// Helper struct to implement the watch method in `Directory` implementations.
 ///
@@ -29,10 +41,17 @@ impl WatchHandle {
     pub fn new(watch_callback: Arc<WatchCallback>) -> WatchHandle {
         WatchHandle(watch_callback)
     }
+
+    /// Returns an empty watch handle.
+    ///
+    /// This function is only useful when implementing a readonly directory.
+    pub fn empty() -> WatchHandle {
+        WatchHandle::new(Arc::new(WatchCallback::new(|| {})))
+    }
 }
 
 impl WatchCallbackList {
-    /// Suscribes a new callback and returns a handle that controls the lifetime of the callback.
+    /// Subscribes a new callback and returns a handle that controls the lifetime of the callback.
     pub fn subscribe(&self, watch_callback: WatchCallback) -> WatchHandle {
         let watch_callback_arc = Arc::new(watch_callback);
         let watch_callback_weak = Arc::downgrade(&watch_callback_arc);
@@ -40,13 +59,13 @@ impl WatchCallbackList {
         WatchHandle::new(watch_callback_arc)
     }
 
-    fn list_callback(&self) -> Vec<Arc<WatchCallback>> {
-        let mut callbacks = vec![];
+    fn list_callback(&self) -> Vec<WatchCallback> {
+        let mut callbacks: Vec<WatchCallback> = vec![];
         let mut router_wlock = self.router.write().unwrap();
         let mut i = 0;
         while i < router_wlock.len() {
             if let Some(watch) = router_wlock[i].upgrade() {
-                callbacks.push(watch);
+                callbacks.push(watch.as_ref().clone());
                 i += 1;
             } else {
                 router_wlock.swap_remove(i);
@@ -68,7 +87,7 @@ impl WatchCallbackList {
             .name("watch-callbacks".to_string())
             .spawn(move || {
                 for callback in callbacks {
-                    callback();
+                    callback.call();
                 }
                 let _ = sender.send(());
             });
@@ -84,7 +103,7 @@ impl WatchCallbackList {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use crate::directory::WatchCallbackList;
+    use crate::directory::{WatchCallback, WatchCallbackList};
     use futures::executor::block_on;
     use std::mem;
     use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
@@ -95,7 +114,7 @@ mod tests {
         let watch_event_router = WatchCallbackList::default();
         let counter: Arc<AtomicUsize> = Default::default();
         let counter_clone = counter.clone();
-        let inc_callback = Box::new(move || {
+        let inc_callback = WatchCallback::new(move || {
             counter_clone.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
         });
         block_on(watch_event_router.broadcast());
@@ -123,7 +142,7 @@ mod tests {
         let counter: Arc<AtomicUsize> = Default::default();
         let inc_callback = |inc: usize| {
             let counter_clone = counter.clone();
-            Box::new(move || {
+            WatchCallback::new(move || {
                 counter_clone.fetch_add(inc, Ordering::SeqCst);
             })
         };
@@ -151,7 +170,7 @@ mod tests {
         let watch_event_router = WatchCallbackList::default();
         let counter: Arc<AtomicUsize> = Default::default();
         let counter_clone = counter.clone();
-        let inc_callback = Box::new(move || {
+        let inc_callback = WatchCallback::new(move || {
             counter_clone.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
         });
         let handle_a = watch_event_router.subscribe(inc_callback);

src/docset.rs

@@ -1,58 +1,48 @@
-use crate::common::BitSet;
-use crate::fastfield::DeleteBitSet;
+use crate::fastfield::AliveBitSet;
 use crate::DocId;
 use std::borrow::Borrow;
 use std::borrow::BorrowMut;
-use std::cmp::Ordering;
 
-/// Expresses the outcome of a call to `DocSet`'s `.skip_next(...)`.
-#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
-pub enum SkipResult {
-    /// target was in the docset
-    Reached,
-    /// target was not in the docset, skipping stopped as a greater element was found
-    OverStep,
-    /// the docset was entirely consumed without finding the target, nor any
-    /// element greater than the target.
-    End,
-}
+/// Sentinel value returned when a DocSet has been entirely consumed.
+///
+/// This is not u32::MAX as one would have expected, due to the lack of SSE2 instructions
+/// to compare [u32; 4].
+pub const TERMINATED: DocId = std::i32::MAX as u32;
 
 /// Represents an iterable set of sorted doc ids.
-pub trait DocSet {
+pub trait DocSet: Send {
     /// Goes to the next element.
-    /// `.advance(...)` needs to be called a first time to point to the correct
-    /// element.
-    fn advance(&mut self) -> bool;
+    ///
+    /// The DocId of the next element is returned.
+    /// In other words we should always have :
+    /// ```ignore
+    /// let doc = docset.advance();
+    /// assert_eq!(doc, docset.doc());
+    /// ```
+    ///
+    /// If we reached the end of the DocSet, TERMINATED should be returned.
+    ///
+    /// Calling `.advance()` on a terminated DocSet should be supported, and TERMINATED should
+    /// be returned.
+    /// TODO Test existing docsets.
+    fn advance(&mut self) -> DocId;
 
-    /// After skipping, position the iterator in such a way that `.doc()`
-    /// will return a value greater than or equal to target.
+    /// Advances the DocSet forward until reaching the target, or going to the
+    /// lowest DocId greater than the target.
     ///
-    /// SkipResult expresses whether the `target value` was reached, overstepped,
-    /// or if the `DocSet` was entirely consumed without finding any value
-    /// greater or equal to the `target`.
+    /// If the end of the DocSet is reached, TERMINATED is returned.
     ///
-    /// WARNING: Calling skip always advances the docset.
-    /// More specifically, if the docset is already positionned on the target
-    /// skipping will advance to the next position and return SkipResult::Overstep.
+    /// Calling `.seek(target)` on a terminated DocSet is legal. Implementation
+    /// of DocSet should support it.
     ///
-    /// If `.skip_next()` oversteps, then the docset must be positionned correctly
-    /// on an existing document. In other words, `.doc()` should return the first document
-    /// greater than `DocId`.
-    fn skip_next(&mut self, target: DocId) -> SkipResult {
-        if !self.advance() {
-            return SkipResult::End;
-        }
-        loop {
-            match self.doc().cmp(&target) {
-                Ordering::Less => {
-                    if !self.advance() {
-                        return SkipResult::End;
-                    }
-                }
-                Ordering::Equal => return SkipResult::Reached,
-                Ordering::Greater => return SkipResult::OverStep,
-            }
+    /// Calling `seek(TERMINATED)` is also legal and is the normal way to consume a DocSet.
+    fn seek(&mut self, target: DocId) -> DocId {
+        let mut doc = self.doc();
+        debug_assert!(doc <= target);
+        while doc < target {
+            doc = self.advance();
         }
+        doc
     }
 
     /// Fills a given mutable buffer with the next doc ids from the
@@ -71,38 +61,38 @@ pub trait DocSet {
     /// use case where batching. The normal way to
     /// go through the `DocId`'s is to call `.advance()`.
     fn fill_buffer(&mut self, buffer: &mut [DocId]) -> usize {
+        if self.doc() == TERMINATED {
+            return 0;
+        }
         for (i, buffer_val) in buffer.iter_mut().enumerate() {
-            if self.advance() {
-                *buffer_val = self.doc();
-            } else {
-                return i;
+            *buffer_val = self.doc();
+            if self.advance() == TERMINATED {
+                return i + 1;
             }
         }
         buffer.len()
     }
 
     /// Returns the current document
+    /// Right after creating a new DocSet, the docset points to the first document.
+    ///
+    /// If the DocSet is empty, .doc() should return `TERMINATED`.
     fn doc(&self) -> DocId;
 
     /// Returns a best-effort hint of the
     /// length of the docset.
     fn size_hint(&self) -> u32;
 
-    /// Appends all docs to a `bitset`.
-    fn append_to_bitset(&mut self, bitset: &mut BitSet) {
-        while self.advance() {
-            bitset.insert(self.doc());
-        }
-    }
-
     /// Returns the number documents matching.
     /// Calling this method consumes the `DocSet`.
-    fn count(&mut self, delete_bitset: &DeleteBitSet) -> u32 {
+    fn count(&mut self, alive_bitset: &AliveBitSet) -> u32 {
         let mut count = 0u32;
-        while self.advance() {
-            if !delete_bitset.is_deleted(self.doc()) {
+        let mut doc = self.doc();
+        while doc != TERMINATED {
+            if alive_bitset.is_alive(doc) {
                 count += 1u32;
             }
+            doc = self.advance();
         }
         count
     }
@@ -114,22 +104,50 @@ pub trait DocSet {
     /// given by `count()`.
     fn count_including_deleted(&mut self) -> u32 {
         let mut count = 0u32;
-        while self.advance() {
+        let mut doc = self.doc();
+        while doc != TERMINATED {
             count += 1u32;
+            doc = self.advance();
         }
         count
     }
 }
 
+impl<'a> DocSet for &'a mut dyn DocSet {
+    fn advance(&mut self) -> u32 {
+        (**self).advance()
+    }
+
+    fn seek(&mut self, target: DocId) -> DocId {
+        (**self).seek(target)
+    }
+
+    fn doc(&self) -> u32 {
+        (**self).doc()
+    }
+
+    fn size_hint(&self) -> u32 {
+        (**self).size_hint()
+    }
+
+    fn count(&mut self, alive_bitset: &AliveBitSet) -> u32 {
+        (**self).count(alive_bitset)
+    }
+
+    fn count_including_deleted(&mut self) -> u32 {
+        (**self).count_including_deleted()
+    }
+}
+
 impl<TDocSet: DocSet + ?Sized> DocSet for Box<TDocSet> {
-    fn advance(&mut self) -> bool {
+    fn advance(&mut self) -> DocId {
         let unboxed: &mut TDocSet = self.borrow_mut();
         unboxed.advance()
     }
 
-    fn skip_next(&mut self, target: DocId) -> SkipResult {
+    fn seek(&mut self, target: DocId) -> DocId {
         let unboxed: &mut TDocSet = self.borrow_mut();
-        unboxed.skip_next(target)
+        unboxed.seek(target)
     }
 
     fn doc(&self) -> DocId {
@@ -142,18 +160,13 @@ impl<TDocSet: DocSet + ?Sized> DocSet for Box<TDocSet> {
         unboxed.size_hint()
     }
 
-    fn count(&mut self, delete_bitset: &DeleteBitSet) -> u32 {
+    fn count(&mut self, alive_bitset: &AliveBitSet) -> u32 {
         let unboxed: &mut TDocSet = self.borrow_mut();
-        unboxed.count(delete_bitset)
+        unboxed.count(alive_bitset)
     }
 
     fn count_including_deleted(&mut self) -> u32 {
         let unboxed: &mut TDocSet = self.borrow_mut();
         unboxed.count_including_deleted()
     }
-
-    fn append_to_bitset(&mut self, bitset: &mut BitSet) {
-        let unboxed: &mut TDocSet = self.borrow_mut();
-        unboxed.append_to_bitset(bitset);
-    }
 }

src/error.rs

@@ -2,22 +2,27 @@
 
 use std::io;
 
-use crate::directory::error::{IOError, OpenDirectoryError, OpenReadError, OpenWriteError};
 use crate::directory::error::{Incompatibility, LockError};
 use crate::fastfield::FastFieldNotAvailableError;
 use crate::query;
-use crate::schema;
-use serde_json;
+use crate::{
+    directory::error::{OpenDirectoryError, OpenReadError, OpenWriteError},
+    schema,
+};
 use std::fmt;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::sync::PoisonError;
 
+/// Represents a `DataCorruption` error.
+///
+/// When facing data corruption, tantivy  actually panic or return this error.
 pub struct DataCorruption {
     filepath: Option<PathBuf>,
     comment: String,
 }
 
 impl DataCorruption {
+    /// Creates a `DataCorruption` Error.
     pub fn new(filepath: PathBuf, comment: String) -> DataCorruption {
         DataCorruption {
             filepath: Some(filepath),
@@ -25,10 +30,11 @@ impl DataCorruption {
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn comment_only(comment: String) -> DataCorruption {
+    /// Creates a `DataCorruption` Error, when the filepath is irrelevant.
+    pub fn comment_only<TStr: ToString>(comment: TStr) -> DataCorruption {
         DataCorruption {
             filepath: None,
-            comment,
+            comment: comment.to_string(),
         }
     }
 }
@@ -44,44 +50,50 @@ impl fmt::Debug for DataCorruption {
     }
 }
 
-/// The library's failure based error enum
-#[derive(Debug, Fail)]
+/// The library's error enum
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
 pub enum TantivyError {
-    /// Path does not exist.
-    #[fail(display = "Path does not exist: '{:?}'", _0)]
-    PathDoesNotExist(PathBuf),
-    /// File already exists, this is a problem when we try to write into a new file.
-    #[fail(display = "File already exists: '{:?}'", _0)]
-    FileAlreadyExists(PathBuf),
+    /// Failed to open the directory.
+    #[error("Failed to open the directory: '{0:?}'")]
+    OpenDirectoryError(#[from] OpenDirectoryError),
+    /// Failed to open a file for read.
+    #[error("Failed to open file for read: '{0:?}'")]
+    OpenReadError(#[from] OpenReadError),
+    /// Failed to open a file for write.
+    #[error("Failed to open file for write: '{0:?}'")]
+    OpenWriteError(#[from] OpenWriteError),
     /// Index already exists in this directory
-    #[fail(display = "Index already exists")]
+    #[error("Index already exists")]
     IndexAlreadyExists,
     /// Failed to acquire file lock
-    #[fail(display = "Failed to acquire Lockfile: {:?}. {:?}", _0, _1)]
+    #[error("Failed to acquire Lockfile: {0:?}. {1:?}")]
     LockFailure(LockError, Option<String>),
     /// IO Error.
-    #[fail(display = "An IO error occurred: '{}'", _0)]
-    IOError(#[cause] IOError),
+    #[error("An IO error occurred: '{0}'")]
+    IoError(#[from] io::Error),
     /// Data corruption.
-    #[fail(display = "{:?}", _0)]
+    #[error("Data corrupted: '{0:?}'")]
     DataCorruption(DataCorruption),
     /// A thread holding the locked panicked and poisoned the lock.
-    #[fail(display = "A thread holding the locked panicked and poisoned the lock")]
+    #[error("A thread holding the locked panicked and poisoned the lock")]
     Poisoned,
     /// Invalid argument was passed by the user.
-    #[fail(display = "An invalid argument was passed: '{}'", _0)]
+    #[error("An invalid argument was passed: '{0}'")]
     InvalidArgument(String),
     /// An Error happened in one of the thread.
-    #[fail(display = "An error occurred in a thread: '{}'", _0)]
+    #[error("An error occurred in a thread: '{0}'")]
     ErrorInThread(String),
+    /// An Error appeared related to opening or creating a index.
+    #[error("Missing required index builder argument when open/create index: '{0}'")]
+    IndexBuilderMissingArgument(&'static str),
     /// An Error appeared related to the schema.
-    #[fail(display = "Schema error: '{}'", _0)]
+    #[error("Schema error: '{0}'")]
     SchemaError(String),
     /// System error. (e.g.: We failed spawning a new thread)
-    #[fail(display = "System error.'{}'", _0)]
+    #[error("System error.'{0}'")]
     SystemError(String),
     /// Index incompatible with current version of tantivy
-    #[fail(display = "{:?}", _0)]
+    #[error("{0:?}")]
     IncompatibleIndex(Incompatibility),
 }
 
@@ -90,31 +102,17 @@ impl From<DataCorruption> for TantivyError {
         TantivyError::DataCorruption(data_corruption)
     }
 }
-
 impl From<FastFieldNotAvailableError> for TantivyError {
     fn from(fastfield_error: FastFieldNotAvailableError) -> TantivyError {
         TantivyError::SchemaError(format!("{}", fastfield_error))
     }
 }
-
 impl From<LockError> for TantivyError {
     fn from(lock_error: LockError) -> TantivyError {
         TantivyError::LockFailure(lock_error, None)
     }
 }
 
-impl From<IOError> for TantivyError {
-    fn from(io_error: IOError) -> TantivyError {
-        TantivyError::IOError(io_error)
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<io::Error> for TantivyError {
-    fn from(io_error: io::Error) -> TantivyError {
-        TantivyError::IOError(io_error.into())
-    }
-}
-
 impl From<query::QueryParserError> for TantivyError {
     fn from(parsing_error: query::QueryParserError) -> TantivyError {
         TantivyError::InvalidArgument(format!("Query is invalid. {:?}", parsing_error))
@@ -127,15 +125,9 @@ impl<Guard> From<PoisonError<Guard>> for TantivyError {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<OpenReadError> for TantivyError {
-    fn from(error: OpenReadError) -> TantivyError {
-        match error {
-            OpenReadError::FileDoesNotExist(filepath) => TantivyError::PathDoesNotExist(filepath),
-            OpenReadError::IOError(io_error) => TantivyError::IOError(io_error),
-            OpenReadError::IncompatibleIndex(incompatibility) => {
-                TantivyError::IncompatibleIndex(incompatibility)
-            }
-        }
+impl From<chrono::ParseError> for TantivyError {
+    fn from(err: chrono::ParseError) -> TantivyError {
+        TantivyError::InvalidArgument(err.to_string())
     }
 }
 
@@ -145,35 +137,9 @@ impl From<schema::DocParsingError> for TantivyError {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<OpenWriteError> for TantivyError {
-    fn from(error: OpenWriteError) -> TantivyError {
-        match error {
-            OpenWriteError::FileAlreadyExists(filepath) => {
-                TantivyError::FileAlreadyExists(filepath)
-            }
-            OpenWriteError::IOError(io_error) => TantivyError::IOError(io_error),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl From<OpenDirectoryError> for TantivyError {
-    fn from(error: OpenDirectoryError) -> TantivyError {
-        match error {
-            OpenDirectoryError::DoesNotExist(directory_path) => {
-                TantivyError::PathDoesNotExist(directory_path)
-            }
-            OpenDirectoryError::NotADirectory(directory_path) => {
-                TantivyError::InvalidArgument(format!("{:?} is not a directory", directory_path))
-            }
-            OpenDirectoryError::IoError(err) => TantivyError::IOError(IOError::from(err)),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 impl From<serde_json::Error> for TantivyError {
     fn from(error: serde_json::Error) -> TantivyError {
-        let io_err = io::Error::from(error);
-        TantivyError::IOError(io_err.into())
+        TantivyError::IoError(error.into())
     }
 }
 

src/fastfield/alive_bitset.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+use crate::space_usage::ByteCount;
+use crate::DocId;
+use common::BitSet;
+use common::ReadSerializedBitSet;
+use ownedbytes::OwnedBytes;
+use std::io;
+use std::io::Write;
+
+/// Write a alive `BitSet`
+///
+/// where `alive_bitset` is the set of alive `DocId`.
+/// Warning: this function does not call terminate. The caller is in charge of
+/// closing the writer properly.
+pub fn write_alive_bitset<T: Write>(alive_bitset: &BitSet, writer: &mut T) -> io::Result<()> {
+    alive_bitset.serialize(writer)?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// Set of alive `DocId`s.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct AliveBitSet {
+    num_alive_docs: usize,
+    bitset: ReadSerializedBitSet,
+    num_bytes: ByteCount,
+}
+
+impl AliveBitSet {
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    pub(crate) fn for_test_from_deleted_docs(deleted_docs: &[DocId], max_doc: u32) -> AliveBitSet {
+        assert!(deleted_docs.iter().all(|&doc| doc < max_doc));
+        let mut bitset = BitSet::with_max_value_and_full(max_doc);
+        for &doc in deleted_docs {
+            bitset.remove(doc);
+        }
+        let mut alive_bitset_buffer = Vec::new();
+        write_alive_bitset(&bitset, &mut alive_bitset_buffer).unwrap();
+        let alive_bitset_bytes = OwnedBytes::new(alive_bitset_buffer);
+        Self::open(alive_bitset_bytes)
+    }
+
+    /// Opens a delete bitset given its file.
+    pub fn open(bytes: OwnedBytes) -> AliveBitSet {
+        let num_bytes = bytes.len();
+        let bitset = ReadSerializedBitSet::open(bytes);
+        AliveBitSet {
+            num_alive_docs: bitset.len(),
+            bitset,
+            num_bytes,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Returns true iff the document is still "alive". In other words, if it has not been deleted.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn is_alive(&self, doc: DocId) -> bool {
+        self.bitset.contains(doc)
+    }
+
+    /// Returns true iff the document has been marked as deleted.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn is_deleted(&self, doc: DocId) -> bool {
+        !self.is_alive(doc)
+    }
+
+    /// Iterate over the alive docids.
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn iter_alive(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = DocId> + '_ {
+        self.bitset.iter()
+    }
+
+    /// Get underlying bitset
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn bitset(&self) -> &ReadSerializedBitSet {
+        &self.bitset
+    }
+
+    /// The number of deleted docs
+    pub fn num_alive_docs(&self) -> usize {
+        self.num_alive_docs
+    }
+
+    /// Summarize total space usage of this bitset.
+    pub fn space_usage(&self) -> ByteCount {
+        self.num_bytes
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+
+    use super::AliveBitSet;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_alive_bitset_empty() {
+        let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::for_test_from_deleted_docs(&[], 10);
+        for doc in 0..10 {
+            assert_eq!(alive_bitset.is_deleted(doc), !alive_bitset.is_alive(doc));
+            assert!(!alive_bitset.is_deleted(doc));
+        }
+        assert_eq!(alive_bitset.num_alive_docs(), 10);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_alive_bitset() {
+        let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::for_test_from_deleted_docs(&[1, 9], 10);
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_alive(0));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_deleted(1));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_alive(2));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_alive(3));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_alive(4));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_alive(5));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_alive(6));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_alive(6));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_alive(7));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_alive(8));
+        assert!(alive_bitset.is_deleted(9));
+        for doc in 0..10 {
+            assert_eq!(alive_bitset.is_deleted(doc), !alive_bitset.is_alive(doc));
+        }
+        assert_eq!(alive_bitset.num_alive_docs(), 8);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_alive_bitset_iter_minimal() {
+        let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::for_test_from_deleted_docs(&[7], 8);
+
+        let data: Vec<_> = alive_bitset.iter_alive().collect();
+        assert_eq!(data, vec![0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_alive_bitset_iter_small() {
+        let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::for_test_from_deleted_docs(&[0, 2, 3, 6], 7);
+
+        let data: Vec<_> = alive_bitset.iter_alive().collect();
+        assert_eq!(data, vec![1, 4, 5]);
+    }
+    #[test]
+    fn test_alive_bitset_iter() {
+        let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::for_test_from_deleted_docs(&[0, 1, 1000], 1001);
+
+        let data: Vec<_> = alive_bitset.iter_alive().collect();
+        assert_eq!(data, (2..=999).collect::<Vec<_>>());
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(test, feature = "unstable"))]
+mod bench {
+
+    use super::AliveBitSet;
+    use rand::prelude::IteratorRandom;
+    use rand::thread_rng;
+    use test::Bencher;
+
+    fn get_alive() -> Vec<u32> {
+        let mut data = (0..1_000_000_u32).collect::<Vec<u32>>();
+        for _ in 0..(1_000_000) * 1 / 8 {
+            remove_rand(&mut data);
+        }
+        data
+    }
+
+    fn remove_rand(raw: &mut Vec<u32>) {
+        let i = (0..raw.len()).choose(&mut thread_rng()).unwrap();
+        raw.remove(i);
+    }
+
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_deletebitset_iter_deser_on_fly(bench: &mut Bencher) {
+        let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::for_test_from_deleted_docs(&[0, 1, 1000, 10000], 1_000_000);
+
+        bench.iter(|| alive_bitset.iter_alive().collect::<Vec<_>>());
+    }
+
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_deletebitset_access(bench: &mut Bencher) {
+        let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::for_test_from_deleted_docs(&[0, 1, 1000, 10000], 1_000_000);
+
+        bench.iter(|| {
+            (0..1_000_000_u32)
+                .filter(|doc| alive_bitset.is_alive(*doc))
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+        });
+    }
+
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_deletebitset_iter_deser_on_fly_1_8_alive(bench: &mut Bencher) {
+        let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::for_test_from_deleted_docs(&get_alive(), 1_000_000);
+
+        bench.iter(|| alive_bitset.iter_alive().collect::<Vec<_>>());
+    }
+
+    #[bench]
+    fn bench_deletebitset_access_1_8_alive(bench: &mut Bencher) {
+        let alive_bitset = AliveBitSet::for_test_from_deleted_docs(&get_alive(), 1_000_000);
+
+        bench.iter(|| {
+            (0..1_000_000_u32)
+                .filter(|doc| alive_bitset.is_alive(*doc))
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+        });
+    }
+}

src/fastfield/bytes/mod.rs

@@ -6,31 +6,114 @@ pub use self::writer::BytesFastFieldWriter;
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use crate::schema::Schema;
-    use crate::Index;
+    use crate::schema::{BytesOptions, IndexRecordOption, Schema, Value};
+    use crate::{query::TermQuery, schema::FAST, schema::INDEXED, schema::STORED};
+    use crate::{DocAddress, DocSet, Index, Searcher, Term};
+    use std::ops::Deref;
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_bytes() {
+    fn test_bytes() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
-        let field = schema_builder.add_bytes_field("bytesfield");
+        let bytes_field = schema_builder.add_bytes_field("bytesfield", FAST);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
-        index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=>vec![0u8, 1, 2, 3]));
-        index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=>vec![]));
-        index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=>vec![255u8]));
-        index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=>vec![1u8, 3, 5, 7, 9]));
-        index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=>vec![0u8; 1000]));
-        assert!(index_writer.commit().is_ok());
-        let searcher = index.reader().unwrap().searcher();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(bytes_field=>vec![0u8, 1, 2, 3]));
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(bytes_field=>vec![]));
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(bytes_field=>vec![255u8]));
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(bytes_field=>vec![1u8, 3, 5, 7, 9]));
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(bytes_field=>vec![0u8; 1000]));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
         let segment_reader = searcher.segment_reader(0);
-        let bytes_reader = segment_reader.fast_fields().bytes(field).unwrap();
-
+        let bytes_reader = segment_reader.fast_fields().bytes(bytes_field).unwrap();
         assert_eq!(bytes_reader.get_bytes(0), &[0u8, 1, 2, 3]);
         assert!(bytes_reader.get_bytes(1).is_empty());
         assert_eq!(bytes_reader.get_bytes(2), &[255u8]);
         assert_eq!(bytes_reader.get_bytes(3), &[1u8, 3, 5, 7, 9]);
         let long = vec![0u8; 1000];
         assert_eq!(bytes_reader.get_bytes(4), long.as_slice());
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn create_index_for_test<T: Into<BytesOptions>>(
+        byte_options: T,
+    ) -> crate::Result<impl Deref<Target = Searcher>> {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let field = schema_builder.add_bytes_field("string_bytes", byte_options.into());
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+                field => b"tantivy".as_ref(),
+                field => b"lucene".as_ref()
+        ));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        Ok(index.reader()?.searcher())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_stored_bytes() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let searcher = create_index_for_test(STORED)?;
+        assert_eq!(searcher.num_docs(), 1);
+        let retrieved_doc = searcher.doc(DocAddress::new(0u32, 0u32))?;
+        let field = searcher.schema().get_field("string_bytes").unwrap();
+        let values: Vec<&Value> = retrieved_doc.get_all(field).collect();
+        assert_eq!(values.len(), 2);
+        let values_bytes: Vec<&[u8]> = values
+            .into_iter()
+            .flat_map(|value| value.bytes_value())
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(values_bytes, &[&b"tantivy"[..], &b"lucene"[..]]);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_non_stored_bytes() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let searcher = create_index_for_test(INDEXED)?;
+        assert_eq!(searcher.num_docs(), 1);
+        let retrieved_doc = searcher.doc(DocAddress::new(0u32, 0u32))?;
+        let field = searcher.schema().get_field("string_bytes").unwrap();
+        assert!(retrieved_doc.get_first(field).is_none());
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_index_bytes() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let searcher = create_index_for_test(INDEXED)?;
+        assert_eq!(searcher.num_docs(), 1);
+        let field = searcher.schema().get_field("string_bytes").unwrap();
+        let term = Term::from_field_bytes(field, b"lucene".as_ref());
+        let term_query = TermQuery::new(term, IndexRecordOption::Basic);
+        let term_weight = term_query.specialized_weight(&searcher, true)?;
+        let term_scorer = term_weight.specialized_scorer(searcher.segment_reader(0), 1.0)?;
+        assert_eq!(term_scorer.doc(), 0u32);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_non_index_bytes() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let searcher = create_index_for_test(STORED)?;
+        assert_eq!(searcher.num_docs(), 1);
+        let field = searcher.schema().get_field("string_bytes").unwrap();
+        let term = Term::from_field_bytes(field, b"lucene".as_ref());
+        let term_query = TermQuery::new(term, IndexRecordOption::Basic);
+        let term_weight_err = term_query.specialized_weight(&searcher, false);
+        assert!(matches!(
+            term_weight_err,
+            Err(crate::TantivyError::SchemaError(_))
+        ));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_fast_bytes_multivalue_value() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let searcher = create_index_for_test(FAST)?;
+        assert_eq!(searcher.num_docs(), 1);
+        let fast_fields = searcher.segment_reader(0u32).fast_fields();
+        let field = searcher.schema().get_field("string_bytes").unwrap();
+        let fast_field_reader = fast_fields.bytes(field).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get_bytes(0u32), b"tantivy");
+        Ok(())
     }
 }

src/fastfield/bytes/reader.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-use owning_ref::OwningRef;
-
-use crate::directory::ReadOnlySource;
-use crate::fastfield::FastFieldReader;
+use crate::directory::FileSlice;
+use crate::directory::OwnedBytes;
+use crate::fastfield::{BitpackedFastFieldReader, FastFieldReader, MultiValueLength};
 use crate::DocId;
 
 /// Reader for byte array fast fields
@@ -16,17 +15,17 @@ use crate::DocId;
 /// and the start index for the next document, and keeping the bytes in between.
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct BytesFastFieldReader {
-    idx_reader: FastFieldReader<u64>,
-    values: OwningRef<ReadOnlySource, [u8]>,
+    idx_reader: BitpackedFastFieldReader<u64>,
+    values: OwnedBytes,
 }
 
 impl BytesFastFieldReader {
     pub(crate) fn open(
-        idx_reader: FastFieldReader<u64>,
-        values_source: ReadOnlySource,
-    ) -> BytesFastFieldReader {
-        let values = OwningRef::new(values_source).map(|source| &source[..]);
-        BytesFastFieldReader { idx_reader, values }
+        idx_reader: BitpackedFastFieldReader<u64>,
+        values_file: FileSlice,
+    ) -> crate::Result<BytesFastFieldReader> {
+        let values = values_file.read_bytes()?;
+        Ok(BytesFastFieldReader { idx_reader, values })
     }
 
     fn range(&self, doc: DocId) -> (usize, usize) {
@@ -38,7 +37,13 @@ impl BytesFastFieldReader {
     /// Returns the bytes associated to the given `doc`
     pub fn get_bytes(&self, doc: DocId) -> &[u8] {
         let (start, stop) = self.range(doc);
-        &self.values[start..stop]
+        &self.values.as_slice()[start..stop]
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the length of the bytes associated to the given `doc`
+    pub fn num_bytes(&self, doc: DocId) -> usize {
+        let (start, stop) = self.range(doc);
+        stop - start
     }
 
     /// Returns the overall number of bytes in this bytes fast field.
@@ -46,3 +51,12 @@ impl BytesFastFieldReader {
         self.values.len()
     }
 }
+
+impl MultiValueLength for BytesFastFieldReader {
+    fn get_len(&self, doc_id: DocId) -> u64 {
+        self.num_bytes(doc_id) as u64
+    }
+    fn get_total_len(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.total_num_bytes() as u64
+    }
+}

src/fastfield/bytes/writer.rs

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 use std::io;
 
-use crate::fastfield::serializer::FastFieldSerializer;
 use crate::schema::{Document, Field, Value};
 use crate::DocId;
+use crate::{
+    fastfield::serializer::CompositeFastFieldSerializer, indexer::doc_id_mapping::DocIdMapping,
+};
 
 /// Writer for byte array (as in, any number of bytes per document) fast fields
 ///
@@ -35,6 +37,10 @@ impl BytesFastFieldWriter {
         }
     }
 
+    /// The memory used (inclusive childs)
+    pub fn mem_usage(&self) -> usize {
+        self.vals.capacity() + self.doc_index.capacity() * std::mem::size_of::<u64>()
+    }
     /// Access the field associated to the `BytesFastFieldWriter`
     pub fn field(&self) -> Field {
         self.field
@@ -49,16 +55,10 @@ impl BytesFastFieldWriter {
     /// matching field values present in the document.
     pub fn add_document(&mut self, doc: &Document) {
         self.next_doc();
-        for field_value in doc.field_values() {
-            if field_value.field() == self.field {
-                if let Value::Bytes(ref bytes) = *field_value.value() {
-                    self.vals.extend_from_slice(bytes);
-                } else {
-                    panic!(
-                        "Bytes field contained non-Bytes Value!. Field {:?} = {:?}",
-                        self.field, field_value
-                    );
-                }
+        for field_value in doc.get_all(self.field) {
+            if let Value::Bytes(ref bytes) = field_value {
+                self.vals.extend_from_slice(bytes);
+                return;
             }
         }
     }
@@ -74,21 +74,60 @@ impl BytesFastFieldWriter {
         doc
     }
 
+    /// Returns an iterator over values per doc_id in ascending doc_id order.
+    ///
+    /// Normally the order is simply iterating self.doc_id_index.
+    /// With doc_id_map it accounts for the new mapping, returning values in the order of the
+    /// new doc_ids.
+    fn get_ordered_values<'a: 'b, 'b>(
+        &'a self,
+        doc_id_map: Option<&'b DocIdMapping>,
+    ) -> impl Iterator<Item = &'b [u8]> {
+        let doc_id_iter: Box<dyn Iterator<Item = u32>> = if let Some(doc_id_map) = doc_id_map {
+            Box::new(doc_id_map.iter_old_doc_ids())
+        } else {
+            let max_doc = self.doc_index.len() as u32;
+            Box::new(0..max_doc)
+        };
+        doc_id_iter.map(move |doc_id| self.get_values_for_doc_id(doc_id))
+    }
+
+    /// returns all values for a doc_ids
+    fn get_values_for_doc_id(&self, doc_id: u32) -> &[u8] {
+        let start_pos = self.doc_index[doc_id as usize] as usize;
+        let end_pos = self
+            .doc_index
+            .get(doc_id as usize + 1)
+            .cloned()
+            .unwrap_or(self.vals.len() as u64) as usize; // special case, last doc_id has no offset information
+        &self.vals[start_pos..end_pos]
+    }
+
     /// Serializes the fast field values by pushing them to the `FastFieldSerializer`.
-    pub fn serialize(&self, serializer: &mut FastFieldSerializer) -> io::Result<()> {
-        {
-            // writing the offset index
-            let mut doc_index_serializer =
-                serializer.new_u64_fast_field_with_idx(self.field, 0, self.vals.len() as u64, 0)?;
-            for &offset in &self.doc_index {
-                doc_index_serializer.add_val(offset)?;
-            }
-            doc_index_serializer.add_val(self.vals.len() as u64)?;
-            doc_index_serializer.close_field()?;
+    pub fn serialize(
+        &self,
+        serializer: &mut CompositeFastFieldSerializer,
+        doc_id_map: Option<&DocIdMapping>,
+    ) -> io::Result<()> {
+        // writing the offset index
+        let mut doc_index_serializer =
+            serializer.new_u64_fast_field_with_idx(self.field, 0, self.vals.len() as u64, 0)?;
+        let mut offset = 0;
+        for vals in self.get_ordered_values(doc_id_map) {
+            doc_index_serializer.add_val(offset)?;
+            offset += vals.len() as u64;
         }
-        {
-            // writing the values themselves
-            let mut value_serializer = serializer.new_bytes_fast_field_with_idx(self.field, 1)?;
+        doc_index_serializer.add_val(self.vals.len() as u64)?;
+        doc_index_serializer.close_field()?;
+        // writing the values themselves
+        let mut value_serializer = serializer.new_bytes_fast_field_with_idx(self.field, 1);
+        // the else could be removed, but this is faster (difference not benchmarked)
+        if let Some(doc_id_map) = doc_id_map {
+            for vals in self.get_ordered_values(Some(doc_id_map)) {
+                // sort values in case of remapped doc_ids?
+                value_serializer.write_all(vals)?;
+            }
+        } else {
             value_serializer.write_all(&self.vals)?;
         }
         Ok(())

src/fastfield/delete.rs

@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-use crate::common::{BitSet, HasLen};
-use crate::directory::ReadOnlySource;
-use crate::directory::WritePtr;
-use crate::space_usage::ByteCount;
-use crate::DocId;
-use std::io;
-use std::io::Write;
-
-/// Write a delete `BitSet`
-///
-/// where `delete_bitset` is the set of deleted `DocId`.
-pub fn write_delete_bitset(
-    delete_bitset: &BitSet,
-    max_doc: u32,
-    writer: &mut WritePtr,
-) -> io::Result<()> {
-    let mut byte = 0u8;
-    let mut shift = 0u8;
-    for doc in 0..max_doc {
-        if delete_bitset.contains(doc) {
-            byte |= 1 << shift;
-        }
-        if shift == 7 {
-            writer.write_all(&[byte])?;
-            shift = 0;
-            byte = 0;
-        } else {
-            shift += 1;
-        }
-    }
-    if max_doc % 8 > 0 {
-        writer.write_all(&[byte])?;
-    }
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-/// Set of deleted `DocId`s.
-#[derive(Clone)]
-pub struct DeleteBitSet {
-    data: ReadOnlySource,
-    len: usize,
-}
-
-impl DeleteBitSet {
-    /// Opens a delete bitset given its data source.
-    pub fn open(data: ReadOnlySource) -> DeleteBitSet {
-        let num_deleted: usize = data
-            .as_slice()
-            .iter()
-            .map(|b| b.count_ones() as usize)
-            .sum();
-        DeleteBitSet {
-            data,
-            len: num_deleted,
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// Returns true iff the document is still "alive". In other words, if it has not been deleted.
-    pub fn is_alive(&self, doc: DocId) -> bool {
-        !self.is_deleted(doc)
-    }
-
-    /// Returns true iff the document has been marked as deleted.
-    #[inline(always)]
-    pub fn is_deleted(&self, doc: DocId) -> bool {
-        let byte_offset = doc / 8u32;
-        let b: u8 = (*self.data)[byte_offset as usize];
-        let shift = (doc & 7u32) as u8;
-        b & (1u8 << shift) != 0
-    }
-
-    /// Summarize total space usage of this bitset.
-    pub fn space_usage(&self) -> ByteCount {
-        self.data.len()
-    }
-}
-
-impl HasLen for DeleteBitSet {
-    fn len(&self) -> usize {
-        self.len
-    }
-}
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-mod tests {
-    use super::*;
-    use crate::directory::*;
-    use std::path::PathBuf;
-
-    fn test_delete_bitset_helper(bitset: &BitSet, max_doc: u32) {
-        let test_path = PathBuf::from("test");
-        let mut directory = RAMDirectory::create();
-        {
-            let mut writer = directory.open_write(&*test_path).unwrap();
-            write_delete_bitset(bitset, max_doc, &mut writer).unwrap();
-            writer.terminate().unwrap();
-        }
-        let source = directory.open_read(&test_path).unwrap();
-        let delete_bitset = DeleteBitSet::open(source);
-        for doc in 0..max_doc {
-            assert_eq!(bitset.contains(doc), delete_bitset.is_deleted(doc as DocId));
-        }
-        assert_eq!(delete_bitset.len(), bitset.len());
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_delete_bitset() {
-        {
-            let mut bitset = BitSet::with_max_value(10);
-            bitset.insert(1);
-            bitset.insert(9);
-            test_delete_bitset_helper(&bitset, 10);
-        }
-        {
-            let mut bitset = BitSet::with_max_value(8);
-            bitset.insert(1);
-            bitset.insert(2);
-            bitset.insert(3);
-            bitset.insert(5);
-            bitset.insert(7);
-            test_delete_bitset_helper(&bitset, 8);
-        }
-    }
-}

src/fastfield/error.rs

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ use std::result;
 /// `FastFieldNotAvailableError` is returned when the
 /// user requested for a fast field reader, and the field was not
 /// defined in the schema as a fast field.
-#[derive(Debug, Fail)]
-#[fail(display = "Fast field not available: '{:?}'", field_name)]
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
+#[error("Fast field not available: '{field_name:?}'")]
 pub struct FastFieldNotAvailableError {
     field_name: String,
 }

src/fastfield/facet_reader.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use super::MultiValueIntFastFieldReader;
+use super::MultiValuedFastFieldReader;
+use crate::error::DataCorruption;
 use crate::schema::Facet;
 use crate::termdict::TermDictionary;
 use crate::termdict::TermOrdinal;
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ use std::str;
 /// list of facets. This ordinal is segment local and
 /// only makes sense for a given segment.
 pub struct FacetReader {
-    term_ords: MultiValueIntFastFieldReader<u64>,
+    term_ords: MultiValuedFastFieldReader<u64>,
     term_dict: TermDictionary,
     buffer: Vec<u8>,
 }
@@ -28,12 +29,12 @@ impl FacetReader {
     /// Creates a new `FacetReader`.
     ///
     /// A facet reader just wraps :
-    /// - a `MultiValueIntFastFieldReader` that makes it possible to
+    /// - a `MultiValuedFastFieldReader` that makes it possible to
     /// access the list of facet ords for a given document.
     /// - a `TermDictionary` that helps associating a facet to
     /// an ordinal and vice versa.
     pub fn new(
-        term_ords: MultiValueIntFastFieldReader<u64>,
+        term_ords: MultiValuedFastFieldReader<u64>,
         term_dict: TermDictionary,
     ) -> FacetReader {
         FacetReader {
@@ -62,18 +63,166 @@ impl FacetReader {
         &mut self,
         facet_ord: TermOrdinal,
         output: &mut Facet,
-    ) -> Result<(), str::Utf8Error> {
+    ) -> crate::Result<()> {
         let found_term = self
             .term_dict
-            .ord_to_term(facet_ord as u64, &mut self.buffer);
+            .ord_to_term(facet_ord as u64, &mut self.buffer)?;
         assert!(found_term, "Term ordinal {} no found.", facet_ord);
-        let facet_str = str::from_utf8(&self.buffer[..])?;
+        let facet_str = str::from_utf8(&self.buffer[..])
+            .map_err(|utf8_err| DataCorruption::comment_only(utf8_err.to_string()))?;
         output.set_facet_str(facet_str);
         Ok(())
     }
 
     /// Return the list of facet ordinals associated to a document.
-    pub fn facet_ords(&mut self, doc: DocId, output: &mut Vec<u64>) {
+    pub fn facet_ords(&self, doc: DocId, output: &mut Vec<u64>) {
         self.term_ords.get_vals(doc, output);
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use crate::Index;
+    use crate::{
+        schema::{Facet, FacetOptions, SchemaBuilder, Value, INDEXED, STORED},
+        DocAddress, Document,
+    };
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_facet_only_indexed() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = SchemaBuilder::default();
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", INDEXED);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(facet_field=>Facet::from_text("/a/b").unwrap()));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let facet_reader = searcher
+            .segment_reader(0u32)
+            .facet_reader(facet_field)
+            .unwrap();
+        let mut facet_ords = Vec::new();
+        facet_reader.facet_ords(0u32, &mut facet_ords);
+        assert_eq!(&facet_ords, &[2u64]);
+        let doc = searcher.doc(DocAddress::new(0u32, 0u32))?;
+        let value = doc.get_first(facet_field).and_then(Value::path);
+        assert_eq!(value, None);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_facet_only_stored() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = SchemaBuilder::default();
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", STORED);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(facet_field=>Facet::from_text("/a/b").unwrap()));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let facet_reader = searcher
+            .segment_reader(0u32)
+            .facet_reader(facet_field)
+            .unwrap();
+        let mut facet_ords = Vec::new();
+        facet_reader.facet_ords(0u32, &mut facet_ords);
+        assert!(facet_ords.is_empty());
+        let doc = searcher.doc(DocAddress::new(0u32, 0u32))?;
+        let value = doc.get_first(facet_field).and_then(Value::path);
+        assert_eq!(value, Some("/a/b".to_string()));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_facet_stored_and_indexed() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = SchemaBuilder::default();
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", STORED | INDEXED);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(facet_field=>Facet::from_text("/a/b").unwrap()));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let facet_reader = searcher
+            .segment_reader(0u32)
+            .facet_reader(facet_field)
+            .unwrap();
+        let mut facet_ords = Vec::new();
+        facet_reader.facet_ords(0u32, &mut facet_ords);
+        assert_eq!(&facet_ords, &[2u64]);
+        let doc = searcher.doc(DocAddress::new(0u32, 0u32))?;
+        let value = doc.get_first(facet_field).and_then(Value::path);
+        assert_eq!(value, Some("/a/b".to_string()));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_facet_neither_stored_and_indexed() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = SchemaBuilder::default();
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", FacetOptions::default());
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(facet_field=>Facet::from_text("/a/b").unwrap()));
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let facet_reader = searcher
+            .segment_reader(0u32)
+            .facet_reader(facet_field)
+            .unwrap();
+        let mut facet_ords = Vec::new();
+        facet_reader.facet_ords(0u32, &mut facet_ords);
+        assert!(facet_ords.is_empty());
+        let doc = searcher.doc(DocAddress::new(0u32, 0u32))?;
+        let value = doc.get_first(facet_field).and_then(Value::path);
+        assert_eq!(value, None);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_facet_not_populated_for_all_docs() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = SchemaBuilder::default();
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", INDEXED);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(facet_field=>Facet::from_text("/a/b").unwrap()));
+        index_writer.add_document(Document::default());
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let facet_reader = searcher
+            .segment_reader(0u32)
+            .facet_reader(facet_field)
+            .unwrap();
+        let mut facet_ords = Vec::new();
+        facet_reader.facet_ords(0u32, &mut facet_ords);
+        assert_eq!(&facet_ords, &[2u64]);
+        facet_reader.facet_ords(1u32, &mut facet_ords);
+        assert!(facet_ords.is_empty());
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_facet_not_populated_for_any_docs() -> crate::Result<()> {
+        let mut schema_builder = SchemaBuilder::default();
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facet", INDEXED);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests()?;
+        index_writer.add_document(Document::default());
+        index_writer.add_document(Document::default());
+        index_writer.commit()?;
+        let searcher = index.reader()?.searcher();
+        let facet_reader = searcher
+            .segment_reader(0u32)
+            .facet_reader(facet_field)
+            .unwrap();
+        let mut facet_ords = Vec::new();
+        facet_reader.facet_ords(0u32, &mut facet_ords);
+        assert!(facet_ords.is_empty());
+        facet_reader.facet_ords(1u32, &mut facet_ords);
+        assert!(facet_ords.is_empty());
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}

src/fastfield/mod.rs

@@ -23,24 +23,31 @@ values stored.
 Read access performance is comparable to that of an array lookup.
 */
 
+pub use self::alive_bitset::write_alive_bitset;
+pub use self::alive_bitset::AliveBitSet;
 pub use self::bytes::{BytesFastFieldReader, BytesFastFieldWriter};
-pub use self::delete::write_delete_bitset;
-pub use self::delete::DeleteBitSet;
 pub use self::error::{FastFieldNotAvailableError, Result};
 pub use self::facet_reader::FacetReader;
-pub use self::multivalued::{MultiValueIntFastFieldReader, MultiValueIntFastFieldWriter};
+pub use self::multivalued::{MultiValuedFastFieldReader, MultiValuedFastFieldWriter};
+pub(crate) use self::reader::BitpackedFastFieldReader;
+pub use self::reader::DynamicFastFieldReader;
 pub use self::reader::FastFieldReader;
 pub use self::readers::FastFieldReaders;
-pub use self::serializer::FastFieldSerializer;
+pub use self::serializer::CompositeFastFieldSerializer;
+pub use self::serializer::FastFieldDataAccess;
+pub use self::serializer::FastFieldStats;
 pub use self::writer::{FastFieldsWriter, IntFastFieldWriter};
-use crate::chrono::{NaiveDateTime, Utc};
-use crate::common;
 use crate::schema::Cardinality;
 use crate::schema::FieldType;
 use crate::schema::Value;
+use crate::DocId;
+use crate::{
+    chrono::{NaiveDateTime, Utc},
+    schema::Type,
+};
 
+mod alive_bitset;
 mod bytes;
-mod delete;
 mod error;
 mod facet_reader;
 mod multivalued;
@@ -49,8 +56,17 @@ mod readers;
 mod serializer;
 mod writer;
 
+/// Trait for `BytesFastFieldReader` and `MultiValuedFastFieldReader` to return the length of data
+/// for a doc_id
+pub trait MultiValueLength {
+    /// returns the num of values associated to a doc_id
+    fn get_len(&self, doc_id: DocId) -> u64;
+    /// returns the sum of num values for all doc_ids
+    fn get_total_len(&self) -> u64;
+}
+
 /// Trait for types that are allowed for fast fields: (u64, i64 and f64).
-pub trait FastValue: Clone + Copy + Send + Sync + PartialOrd {
+pub trait FastValue: Clone + Copy + Send + Sync + PartialOrd + 'static {
     /// Converts a value from u64
     ///
     /// Internally all fast field values are encoded as u64.
@@ -76,6 +92,9 @@ pub trait FastValue: Clone + Copy + Send + Sync + PartialOrd {
     fn make_zero() -> Self {
         Self::from_u64(0i64.to_u64())
     }
+
+    /// Returns the `schema::Type` for this FastValue.
+    fn to_type() -> Type;
 }
 
 impl FastValue for u64 {
@@ -90,7 +109,7 @@ impl FastValue for u64 {
     fn fast_field_cardinality(field_type: &FieldType) -> Option<Cardinality> {
         match *field_type {
             FieldType::U64(ref integer_options) => integer_options.get_fastfield_cardinality(),
-            FieldType::HierarchicalFacet => Some(Cardinality::MultiValues),
+            FieldType::HierarchicalFacet(_) => Some(Cardinality::MultiValues),
             _ => None,
         }
     }
@@ -98,6 +117,10 @@ impl FastValue for u64 {
     fn as_u64(&self) -> u64 {
         *self
     }
+
+    fn to_type() -> Type {
+        Type::U64
+    }
 }
 
 impl FastValue for i64 {
@@ -119,6 +142,10 @@ impl FastValue for i64 {
     fn as_u64(&self) -> u64 {
         *self as u64
     }
+
+    fn to_type() -> Type {
+        Type::I64
+    }
 }
 
 impl FastValue for f64 {
@@ -140,6 +167,10 @@ impl FastValue for f64 {
     fn as_u64(&self) -> u64 {
         self.to_bits()
     }
+
+    fn to_type() -> Type {
+        Type::F64
+    }
 }
 
 impl FastValue for crate::DateTime {
@@ -162,6 +193,10 @@ impl FastValue for crate::DateTime {
     fn as_u64(&self) -> u64 {
         self.timestamp().as_u64()
     }
+
+    fn to_type() -> Type {
+        Type::Date
+    }
 }
 
 fn value_to_u64(value: &Value) -> u64 {
@@ -178,15 +213,15 @@ fn value_to_u64(value: &Value) -> u64 {
 mod tests {
 
     use super::*;
-    use crate::common::CompositeFile;
-    use crate::directory::{Directory, RAMDirectory, WritePtr};
-    use crate::fastfield::FastFieldReader;
+    use crate::directory::CompositeFile;
+    use crate::directory::{Directory, RamDirectory, WritePtr};
     use crate::merge_policy::NoMergePolicy;
     use crate::schema::Field;
     use crate::schema::Schema;
     use crate::schema::FAST;
     use crate::schema::{Document, IntOptions};
     use crate::{Index, SegmentId, SegmentReader};
+    use common::HasLen;
     use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
     use rand::prelude::SliceRandom;
     use rand::rngs::StdRng;
@@ -204,7 +239,7 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     pub fn test_fastfield() {
-        let test_fastfield = FastFieldReader::<u64>::from(vec![100, 200, 300]);
+        let test_fastfield = DynamicFastFieldReader::<u64>::from(vec![100, 200, 300]);
         assert_eq!(test_fastfield.get(0), 100);
         assert_eq!(test_fastfield.get(1), 200);
         assert_eq!(test_fastfield.get(2), 300);
@@ -217,42 +252,39 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_intfastfield_small() {
+    fn test_intfastfield_small() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let path = Path::new("test");
-        let mut directory: RAMDirectory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory: RamDirectory = RamDirectory::create();
         {
             let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test")).unwrap();
-            let mut serializer = FastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
+            let mut serializer = CompositeFastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
             let mut fast_field_writers = FastFieldsWriter::from_schema(&SCHEMA);
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>13u64));
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>14u64));
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>2u64));
             fast_field_writers
-                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new())
+                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new(), None)
                 .unwrap();
             serializer.close().unwrap();
         }
-        let source = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
-        {
-            assert_eq!(source.len(), 36 as usize);
-        }
-        {
-            let composite_file = CompositeFile::open(&source).unwrap();
-            let field_source = composite_file.open_read(*FIELD).unwrap();
-            let fast_field_reader = FastFieldReader::<u64>::open(field_source);
-            assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(0), 13u64);
-            assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(1), 14u64);
-            assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(2), 2u64);
-        }
+        let file = directory.open_read(path).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(file.len(), 37);
+        let composite_file = CompositeFile::open(&file)?;
+        let file = composite_file.open_read(*FIELD).unwrap();
+        let fast_field_reader = DynamicFastFieldReader::<u64>::open(file)?;
+        assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(0), 13u64);
+        assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(1), 14u64);
+        assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(2), 2u64);
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_intfastfield_large() {
+    fn test_intfastfield_large() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let path = Path::new("test");
-        let mut directory: RAMDirectory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory: RamDirectory = RamDirectory::create();
         {
-            let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test")).unwrap();
-            let mut serializer = FastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
+            let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test"))?;
+            let mut serializer = CompositeFastFieldSerializer::from_write(write)?;
             let mut fast_field_writers = FastFieldsWriter::from_schema(&SCHEMA);
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>4u64));
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>14_082_001u64));
@@ -263,19 +295,15 @@ mod tests {
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>1_002u64));
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>1_501u64));
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>215u64));
-            fast_field_writers
-                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new())
-                .unwrap();
-            serializer.close().unwrap();
+            fast_field_writers.serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new(), None)?;
+            serializer.close()?;
         }
-        let source = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
+        let file = directory.open_read(path)?;
+        assert_eq!(file.len(), 62);
         {
-            assert_eq!(source.len(), 61 as usize);
-        }
-        {
-            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&source).unwrap();
+            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&file)?;
             let data = fast_fields_composite.open_read(*FIELD).unwrap();
-            let fast_field_reader = FastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data);
+            let fast_field_reader = DynamicFastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data)?;
             assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(0), 4u64);
             assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(1), 14_082_001u64);
             assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(2), 3_052u64);
@@ -286,47 +314,47 @@ mod tests {
             assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(7), 1_501u64);
             assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(8), 215u64);
         }
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_intfastfield_null_amplitude() {
+    fn test_intfastfield_null_amplitude() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let path = Path::new("test");
-        let mut directory: RAMDirectory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory: RamDirectory = RamDirectory::create();
 
         {
             let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test")).unwrap();
-            let mut serializer = FastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
+            let mut serializer = CompositeFastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
             let mut fast_field_writers = FastFieldsWriter::from_schema(&SCHEMA);
             for _ in 0..10_000 {
                 fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>100_000u64));
             }
             fast_field_writers
-                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new())
+                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new(), None)
                 .unwrap();
             serializer.close().unwrap();
         }
-        let source = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
+        let file = directory.open_read(path).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(file.len(), 35);
         {
-            assert_eq!(source.len(), 34 as usize);
-        }
-        {
-            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&source).unwrap();
+            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&file).unwrap();
             let data = fast_fields_composite.open_read(*FIELD).unwrap();
-            let fast_field_reader = FastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data);
+            let fast_field_reader = DynamicFastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data)?;
             for doc in 0..10_000 {
                 assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(doc), 100_000u64);
             }
         }
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_intfastfield_large_numbers() {
+    fn test_intfastfield_large_numbers() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let path = Path::new("test");
-        let mut directory: RAMDirectory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory: RamDirectory = RamDirectory::create();
 
         {
             let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test")).unwrap();
-            let mut serializer = FastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
+            let mut serializer = CompositeFastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
             let mut fast_field_writers = FastFieldsWriter::from_schema(&SCHEMA);
             // forcing the amplitude to be high
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>0u64));
@@ -334,18 +362,16 @@ mod tests {
                 fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>5_000_000_000_000_000_000u64 + i));
             }
             fast_field_writers
-                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new())
+                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new(), None)
                 .unwrap();
             serializer.close().unwrap();
         }
-        let source = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
+        let file = directory.open_read(path).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(file.len(), 80043);
         {
-            assert_eq!(source.len(), 80042 as usize);
-        }
-        {
-            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&source).unwrap();
+            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&file)?;
             let data = fast_fields_composite.open_read(*FIELD).unwrap();
-            let fast_field_reader = FastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data);
+            let fast_field_reader = DynamicFastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data)?;
             assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(0), 0u64);
             for doc in 1..10_001 {
                 assert_eq!(
@@ -354,19 +380,20 @@ mod tests {
                 );
             }
         }
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_signed_intfastfield() {
+    fn test_signed_intfastfield() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let path = Path::new("test");
-        let mut directory: RAMDirectory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory: RamDirectory = RamDirectory::create();
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
 
         let i64_field = schema_builder.add_i64_field("field", FAST);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         {
             let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test")).unwrap();
-            let mut serializer = FastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
+            let mut serializer = CompositeFastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
             let mut fast_field_writers = FastFieldsWriter::from_schema(&schema);
             for i in -100i64..10_000i64 {
                 let mut doc = Document::default();
@@ -374,18 +401,17 @@ mod tests {
                 fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc);
             }
             fast_field_writers
-                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new())
+                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new(), None)
                 .unwrap();
             serializer.close().unwrap();
         }
-        let source = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
+        let file = directory.open_read(path).unwrap();
+        //assert_eq!(file.len(), 17710 as usize); //bitpacked size
+        assert_eq!(file.len(), 10175_usize); // linear interpol size
         {
-            assert_eq!(source.len(), 17709 as usize);
-        }
-        {
-            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&source).unwrap();
+            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&file)?;
             let data = fast_fields_composite.open_read(i64_field).unwrap();
-            let fast_field_reader = FastFieldReader::<i64>::open(data);
+            let fast_field_reader = DynamicFastFieldReader::<i64>::open(data)?;
 
             assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.min_value(), -100i64);
             assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.max_value(), 9_999i64);
@@ -398,35 +424,37 @@ mod tests {
                 assert_eq!(buffer[i], -100i64 + 53i64 + i as i64);
             }
         }
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_signed_intfastfield_default_val() {
+    fn test_signed_intfastfield_default_val() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let path = Path::new("test");
-        let mut directory: RAMDirectory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory: RamDirectory = RamDirectory::create();
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
         let i64_field = schema_builder.add_i64_field("field", FAST);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
 
         {
             let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test")).unwrap();
-            let mut serializer = FastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
+            let mut serializer = CompositeFastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
             let mut fast_field_writers = FastFieldsWriter::from_schema(&schema);
             let doc = Document::default();
             fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc);
             fast_field_writers
-                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new())
+                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new(), None)
                 .unwrap();
             serializer.close().unwrap();
         }
 
-        let source = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
+        let file = directory.open_read(path).unwrap();
         {
-            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&source).unwrap();
+            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&file).unwrap();
             let data = fast_fields_composite.open_read(i64_field).unwrap();
-            let fast_field_reader = FastFieldReader::<i64>::open(data);
+            let fast_field_reader = DynamicFastFieldReader::<i64>::open(data)?;
             assert_eq!(fast_field_reader.get(0u32), 0i64);
         }
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     // Warning: this generates the same permutation at each call
@@ -437,28 +465,26 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_intfastfield_permutation() {
+    fn test_intfastfield_permutation() -> crate::Result<()> {
         let path = Path::new("test");
         let permutation = generate_permutation();
         let n = permutation.len();
-        let mut directory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory = RamDirectory::create();
         {
-            let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test")).unwrap();
-            let mut serializer = FastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
+            let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test"))?;
+            let mut serializer = CompositeFastFieldSerializer::from_write(write)?;
             let mut fast_field_writers = FastFieldsWriter::from_schema(&SCHEMA);
             for &x in &permutation {
                 fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>x));
             }
-            fast_field_writers
-                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new())
-                .unwrap();
-            serializer.close().unwrap();
+            fast_field_writers.serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new(), None)?;
+            serializer.close()?;
         }
-        let source = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
+        let file = directory.open_read(path)?;
         {
-            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&source).unwrap();
+            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&file)?;
             let data = fast_fields_composite.open_read(*FIELD).unwrap();
-            let fast_field_reader = FastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data);
+            let fast_field_reader = DynamicFastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data)?;
 
             let mut a = 0u64;
             for _ in 0..n {
@@ -466,6 +492,7 @@ mod tests {
                 a = fast_field_reader.get(a as u32);
             }
         }
+        Ok(())
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -474,7 +501,7 @@ mod tests {
         let date_field = schema_builder.add_date_field("date", FAST);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         index_writer.set_merge_policy(Box::new(NoMergePolicy));
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(date_field =>crate::chrono::prelude::Utc::now()));
         index_writer.commit().unwrap();
@@ -511,7 +538,7 @@ mod tests {
         );
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         index_writer.set_merge_policy(Box::new(NoMergePolicy));
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(
             date_field => crate::DateTime::from_u64(1i64.to_u64()),
@@ -561,8 +588,8 @@ mod bench {
     use super::tests::FIELD;
     use super::tests::{generate_permutation, SCHEMA};
     use super::*;
-    use crate::common::CompositeFile;
-    use crate::directory::{Directory, RAMDirectory, WritePtr};
+    use crate::directory::CompositeFile;
+    use crate::directory::{Directory, RamDirectory, WritePtr};
     use crate::fastfield::FastFieldReader;
     use std::collections::HashMap;
     use std::path::Path;
@@ -598,24 +625,24 @@ mod bench {
     fn bench_intfastfield_linear_fflookup(b: &mut Bencher) {
         let path = Path::new("test");
         let permutation = generate_permutation();
-        let mut directory: RAMDirectory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory: RamDirectory = RamDirectory::create();
         {
             let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test")).unwrap();
-            let mut serializer = FastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
+            let mut serializer = CompositeFastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
             let mut fast_field_writers = FastFieldsWriter::from_schema(&SCHEMA);
             for &x in &permutation {
                 fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>x));
             }
             fast_field_writers
-                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new())
+                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new(), None)
                 .unwrap();
             serializer.close().unwrap();
         }
-        let source = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
+        let file = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
         {
-            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&source).unwrap();
+            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&file).unwrap();
             let data = fast_fields_composite.open_read(*FIELD).unwrap();
-            let fast_field_reader = FastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data);
+            let fast_field_reader = DynamicFastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data).unwrap();
 
             b.iter(|| {
                 let n = test::black_box(7000u32);
@@ -632,24 +659,24 @@ mod bench {
     fn bench_intfastfield_fflookup(b: &mut Bencher) {
         let path = Path::new("test");
         let permutation = generate_permutation();
-        let mut directory: RAMDirectory = RAMDirectory::create();
+        let directory: RamDirectory = RamDirectory::create();
         {
             let write: WritePtr = directory.open_write(Path::new("test")).unwrap();
-            let mut serializer = FastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
+            let mut serializer = CompositeFastFieldSerializer::from_write(write).unwrap();
             let mut fast_field_writers = FastFieldsWriter::from_schema(&SCHEMA);
             for &x in &permutation {
                 fast_field_writers.add_document(&doc!(*FIELD=>x));
             }
             fast_field_writers
-                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new())
+                .serialize(&mut serializer, &HashMap::new(), None)
                 .unwrap();
             serializer.close().unwrap();
         }
-        let source = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
+        let file = directory.open_read(&path).unwrap();
         {
-            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&source).unwrap();
+            let fast_fields_composite = CompositeFile::open(&file).unwrap();
             let data = fast_fields_composite.open_read(*FIELD).unwrap();
-            let fast_field_reader = FastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data);
+            let fast_field_reader = DynamicFastFieldReader::<u64>::open(data).unwrap();
 
             b.iter(|| {
                 let n = test::black_box(1000u32);

src/fastfield/multivalued/mod.rs

@@ -1,22 +1,29 @@
 mod reader;
 mod writer;
 
-pub use self::reader::MultiValueIntFastFieldReader;
-pub use self::writer::MultiValueIntFastFieldWriter;
+pub use self::reader::MultiValuedFastFieldReader;
+pub use self::writer::MultiValuedFastFieldWriter;
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
 
-    use time;
-
-    use self::time::Duration;
     use crate::collector::TopDocs;
+    use crate::indexer::NoMergePolicy;
     use crate::query::QueryParser;
     use crate::schema::Cardinality;
     use crate::schema::Facet;
     use crate::schema::IntOptions;
     use crate::schema::Schema;
+    use crate::schema::INDEXED;
+    use crate::Document;
     use crate::Index;
+    use crate::Term;
+    use chrono::Duration;
+    use futures::executor::block_on;
+    use proptest::prop_oneof;
+    use proptest::proptest;
+    use proptest::strategy::Strategy;
+    use test_env_log::test;
 
     #[test]
     fn test_multivalued_u64() {
@@ -27,7 +34,7 @@ mod tests {
         );
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=>1u64, field=>3u64));
         index_writer.add_document(doc!());
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=>4u64));
@@ -66,7 +73,7 @@ mod tests {
             schema_builder.add_i64_field("time_stamp_i", IntOptions::default().set_stored());
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         let first_time_stamp = chrono::Utc::now();
         index_writer.add_document(
             doc!(date_field=>first_time_stamp, date_field=>first_time_stamp, time_i=>1i64),
@@ -78,17 +85,20 @@ mod tests {
         // add another second
         let two_secs_ahead = first_time_stamp + Duration::seconds(2);
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(date_field=>two_secs_ahead, date_field=>two_secs_ahead,date_field=>two_secs_ahead, time_i=>3i64));
+        // add three seconds
+        index_writer
+            .add_document(doc!(date_field=>first_time_stamp + Duration::seconds(3), time_i=>4i64));
         assert!(index_writer.commit().is_ok());
 
         let reader = index.reader().unwrap();
         let searcher = reader.searcher();
         let reader = searcher.segment_reader(0);
-        assert_eq!(reader.num_docs(), 4);
+        assert_eq!(reader.num_docs(), 5);
 
         {
             let parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![date_field]);
             let query = parser
-                .parse_query(&format!("\"{}\"", first_time_stamp.to_rfc3339()).to_string())
+                .parse_query(&format!("\"{}\"", first_time_stamp.to_rfc3339()))
                 .expect("could not parse query");
             let results = searcher
                 .search(&query, &TopDocs::with_limit(5))
@@ -102,6 +112,7 @@ mod tests {
                         .get_first(date_field)
                         .expect("cannot find value")
                         .date_value()
+                        .unwrap()
                         .timestamp(),
                     first_time_stamp.timestamp()
                 );
@@ -110,7 +121,7 @@ mod tests {
                         .get_first(time_i)
                         .expect("cannot find value")
                         .i64_value(),
-                    1i64
+                    Some(1i64)
                 );
             }
         }
@@ -118,7 +129,7 @@ mod tests {
         {
             let parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![date_field]);
             let query = parser
-                .parse_query(&format!("\"{}\"", two_secs_ahead.to_rfc3339()).to_string())
+                .parse_query(&format!("\"{}\"", two_secs_ahead.to_rfc3339()))
                 .expect("could not parse query");
             let results = searcher
                 .search(&query, &TopDocs::with_limit(5))
@@ -133,6 +144,7 @@ mod tests {
                         .get_first(date_field)
                         .expect("cannot find value")
                         .date_value()
+                        .unwrap()
                         .timestamp(),
                     two_secs_ahead.timestamp()
                 );
@@ -141,42 +153,55 @@ mod tests {
                         .get_first(time_i)
                         .expect("cannot find value")
                         .i64_value(),
-                    3i64
+                    Some(3i64)
                 );
             }
         }
 
-        // TODO: support Date range queries
-        //        {
-        //            let parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![date_field]);
-        //            let range_q = format!("\"{}\"..\"{}\"",
-        //                                  (first_time_stamp + Duration::seconds(1)).to_rfc3339(),
-        //                                  (first_time_stamp + Duration::seconds(3)).to_rfc3339()
-        //            );
-        //            let query = parser.parse_query(&range_q)
-        //                .expect("could not parse query");
-        //            let results = searcher.search(&query, &TopDocs::with_limit(5))
-        //                .expect("could not query index");
-        //
-        //
-        //            assert_eq!(results.len(), 2);
-        //            for (i, doc_pair) in results.iter().enumerate() {
-        //                let retrieved_doc = searcher.doc(doc_pair.1).expect("cannot fetch doc");
-        //                let offset_sec = match i {
-        //                    0 => 1,
-        //                    1 => 3,
-        //                    _ => panic!("should not have more than 2 docs")
-        //                };
-        //                let time_i_val = match i {
-        //                    0 => 2,
-        //                    1 => 3,
-        //                    _ => panic!("should not have more than 2 docs")
-        //                };
-        //                assert_eq!(retrieved_doc.get_first(date_field).expect("cannot find value").date_value().timestamp(),
-        //                           (first_time_stamp + Duration::seconds(offset_sec)).timestamp());
-        //                assert_eq!(retrieved_doc.get_first(time_i).expect("cannot find value").i64_value(), time_i_val);
-        //            }
-        //        }
+        {
+            let parser = QueryParser::for_index(&index, vec![date_field]);
+            let range_q = format!(
+                "[{} TO {}}}",
+                (first_time_stamp + Duration::seconds(1)).to_rfc3339(),
+                (first_time_stamp + Duration::seconds(3)).to_rfc3339()
+            );
+            let query = parser.parse_query(&range_q).expect("could not parse query");
+            let results = searcher
+                .search(&query, &TopDocs::with_limit(5))
+                .expect("could not query index");
+
+            assert_eq!(results.len(), 2);
+            for (i, doc_pair) in results.iter().enumerate() {
+                let retrieved_doc = searcher.doc(doc_pair.1).expect("cannot fetch doc");
+                let offset_sec = match i {
+                    0 => 1,
+                    1 => 2,
+                    _ => panic!("should not have more than 2 docs"),
+                };
+                let time_i_val = match i {
+                    0 => 2,
+                    1 => 3,
+                    _ => panic!("should not have more than 2 docs"),
+                };
+                assert_eq!(
+                    retrieved_doc
+                        .get_first(date_field)
+                        .expect("cannot find value")
+                        .date_value()
+                        .expect("value not of Date type")
+                        .timestamp(),
+                    (first_time_stamp + Duration::seconds(offset_sec)).timestamp()
+                );
+                assert_eq!(
+                    retrieved_doc
+                        .get_first(time_i)
+                        .expect("cannot find value")
+                        .i64_value()
+                        .expect("value not of i64 type"),
+                    time_i_val
+                );
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -188,7 +213,7 @@ mod tests {
         );
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=> 1i64, field => 3i64));
         index_writer.add_document(doc!());
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=> -4i64));
@@ -199,31 +224,128 @@ mod tests {
         let segment_reader = searcher.segment_reader(0);
         let mut vals = Vec::new();
         let multi_value_reader = segment_reader.fast_fields().i64s(field).unwrap();
-        {
-            multi_value_reader.get_vals(2, &mut vals);
-            assert_eq!(&vals, &[-4i64]);
+        multi_value_reader.get_vals(2, &mut vals);
+        assert_eq!(&vals, &[-4i64]);
+        multi_value_reader.get_vals(0, &mut vals);
+        assert_eq!(&vals, &[1i64, 3i64]);
+        multi_value_reader.get_vals(1, &mut vals);
+        assert!(vals.is_empty());
+        multi_value_reader.get_vals(3, &mut vals);
+        assert_eq!(&vals, &[-5i64, -20i64, 1i64]);
+    }
+
+    fn test_multivalued_no_panic(ops: &[IndexingOp]) {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let field = schema_builder.add_u64_field(
+            "multifield",
+            IntOptions::default()
+                .set_fast(Cardinality::MultiValues)
+                .set_indexed(),
+        );
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
+        index_writer.set_merge_policy(Box::new(NoMergePolicy));
+
+        for &op in ops {
+            match op {
+                IndexingOp::AddDoc { id } => {
+                    match id % 3 {
+                        0 => {
+                            index_writer.add_document(doc!());
+                        }
+                        1 => {
+                            let mut doc = Document::new();
+                            for _ in 0..5001 {
+                                doc.add_u64(field, id as u64);
+                            }
+                            index_writer.add_document(doc);
+                        }
+                        _ => {
+                            let mut doc = Document::new();
+                            doc.add_u64(field, id as u64);
+                            index_writer.add_document(doc);
+                        }
+                    };
+                }
+                IndexingOp::DeleteDoc { id } => {
+                    index_writer.delete_term(Term::from_field_u64(field, id as u64));
+                }
+                IndexingOp::Commit => {
+                    index_writer.commit().unwrap();
+                }
+                IndexingOp::Merge => {
+                    let segment_ids = index
+                        .searchable_segment_ids()
+                        .expect("Searchable segments failed.");
+                    if segment_ids.len() >= 2 {
+                        block_on(index_writer.merge(&segment_ids)).unwrap();
+                        assert!(index_writer.segment_updater().wait_merging_thread().is_ok());
+                    }
+                }
+            }
         }
+
+        assert!(index_writer.commit().is_ok());
+
+        // Merging the segments
         {
-            multi_value_reader.get_vals(0, &mut vals);
-            assert_eq!(&vals, &[1i64, 3i64]);
-        }
-        {
-            multi_value_reader.get_vals(1, &mut vals);
-            assert!(vals.is_empty());
-        }
-        {
-            multi_value_reader.get_vals(3, &mut vals);
-            assert_eq!(&vals, &[-5i64, -20i64, 1i64]);
+            let segment_ids = index
+                .searchable_segment_ids()
+                .expect("Searchable segments failed.");
+            if !segment_ids.is_empty() {
+                block_on(index_writer.merge(&segment_ids)).unwrap();
+                assert!(index_writer.wait_merging_threads().is_ok());
+            }
         }
     }
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
+    enum IndexingOp {
+        AddDoc { id: u32 },
+        DeleteDoc { id: u32 },
+        Commit,
+        Merge,
+    }
+
+    fn operation_strategy() -> impl Strategy<Value = IndexingOp> {
+        prop_oneof![
+            (0u32..10u32).prop_map(|id| IndexingOp::DeleteDoc { id }),
+            (0u32..10u32).prop_map(|id| IndexingOp::AddDoc { id }),
+            (0u32..2u32).prop_map(|_| IndexingOp::Commit),
+            (0u32..1u32).prop_map(|_| IndexingOp::Merge),
+        ]
+    }
+
+    proptest! {
+        #[test]
+        fn test_multivalued_proptest(ops in proptest::collection::vec(operation_strategy(), 1..10)) {
+            test_multivalued_no_panic(&ops[..]);
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_multivalued_proptest_off_by_one_bug_1151() {
+        use IndexingOp::*;
+        let ops = [
+            AddDoc { id: 3 },
+            AddDoc { id: 1 },
+            AddDoc { id: 3 },
+            Commit,
+            Merge,
+        ];
+
+        test_multivalued_no_panic(&ops[..]);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     #[ignore]
     fn test_many_facets() {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
-        let field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facetfield");
+        let field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facetfield", INDEXED);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
-        let mut index_writer = index.writer_with_num_threads(1, 3_000_000).unwrap();
+        let mut index_writer = index.writer_for_tests().unwrap();
         for i in 0..100_000 {
             index_writer.add_document(doc!(field=> Facet::from(format!("/lang/{}", i).as_str())));
         }

src/fastfield/multivalued/reader.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-use crate::fastfield::{FastFieldReader, FastValue};
+use std::ops::Range;
+
+use crate::fastfield::{DynamicFastFieldReader, FastFieldReader, FastValue, MultiValueLength};
 use crate::DocId;
 
 /// Reader for a multivalued `u64` fast field.
@@ -10,71 +12,95 @@ use crate::DocId;
 /// The `idx_reader` associated, for each document, the index of its first value.
 ///
 #[derive(Clone)]
-pub struct MultiValueIntFastFieldReader<Item: FastValue> {
-    idx_reader: FastFieldReader<u64>,
-    vals_reader: FastFieldReader<Item>,
+pub struct MultiValuedFastFieldReader<Item: FastValue> {
+    idx_reader: DynamicFastFieldReader<u64>,
+    vals_reader: DynamicFastFieldReader<Item>,
 }
 
-impl<Item: FastValue> MultiValueIntFastFieldReader<Item> {
+impl<Item: FastValue> MultiValuedFastFieldReader<Item> {
     pub(crate) fn open(
-        idx_reader: FastFieldReader<u64>,
-        vals_reader: FastFieldReader<Item>,
-    ) -> MultiValueIntFastFieldReader<Item> {
-        MultiValueIntFastFieldReader {
+        idx_reader: DynamicFastFieldReader<u64>,
+        vals_reader: DynamicFastFieldReader<Item>,
+    ) -> MultiValuedFastFieldReader<Item> {
+        MultiValuedFastFieldReader {
             idx_reader,
             vals_reader,
         }
     }
 
-    pub(crate) fn into_u64s_reader(self) -> MultiValueIntFastFieldReader<u64> {
-        MultiValueIntFastFieldReader {
-            idx_reader: self.idx_reader,
-            vals_reader: self.vals_reader.into_u64_reader(),
-        }
-    }
-
     /// Returns `(start, stop)`, such that the values associated
     /// to the given document are `start..stop`.
-    fn range(&self, doc: DocId) -> (u64, u64) {
+    #[inline]
+    fn range(&self, doc: DocId) -> Range<u64> {
         let start = self.idx_reader.get(doc);
         let stop = self.idx_reader.get(doc + 1);
-        (start, stop)
+        start..stop
     }
 
     /// Returns the array of values associated to the given `doc`.
+    #[inline]
     pub fn get_vals(&self, doc: DocId, vals: &mut Vec<Item>) {
-        let (start, stop) = self.range(doc);
-        let len = (stop - start) as usize;
+        let range = self.range(doc);
+        let len = (range.end - range.start) as usize;
         vals.resize(len, Item::make_zero());
-        self.vals_reader.get_range_u64(start, &mut vals[..]);
+        self.vals_reader.get_range(range.start, &mut vals[..]);
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the minimum value for this fast field.
+    ///
+    /// The min value does not take in account of possible
+    /// deleted document, and should be considered as a lower bound
+    /// of the actual mimimum value.
+    pub fn min_value(&self) -> Item {
+        self.vals_reader.min_value()
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the maximum value for this fast field.
+    ///
+    /// The max value does not take in account of possible
+    /// deleted document, and should be considered as an upper bound
+    /// of the actual maximum value.
+    pub fn max_value(&self) -> Item {
+        self.vals_reader.max_value()
     }
 
     /// Returns the number of values associated with the document `DocId`.
+    #[inline]
     pub fn num_vals(&self, doc: DocId) -> usize {
-        let (start, stop) = self.range(doc);
-        (stop - start) as usize
+        let range = self.range(doc);
+        (range.end - range.start) as usize
     }
 
     /// Returns the overall number of values in this field  .
+    #[inline]
     pub fn total_num_vals(&self) -> u64 {
         self.idx_reader.max_value()
     }
 }
 
+impl<Item: FastValue> MultiValueLength for MultiValuedFastFieldReader<Item> {
+    fn get_len(&self, doc_id: DocId) -> u64 {
+        self.num_vals(doc_id) as u64
+    }
+
+    fn get_total_len(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.total_num_vals() as u64
+    }
+}
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
 
     use crate::core::Index;
-    use crate::schema::{Facet, Schema};
+    use crate::schema::{Cardinality, Facet, IntOptions, Schema, INDEXED};
 
     #[test]
     fn test_multifastfield_reader() {
         let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
-        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facets");
+        let facet_field = schema_builder.add_facet_field("facets", INDEXED);
         let schema = schema_builder.build();
         let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
         let mut index_writer = index
-            .writer_with_num_threads(1, 30_000_000)
+            .writer_for_tests()
             .expect("Failed to create index writer.");
         index_writer.add_document(doc!(
             facet_field => Facet::from("/category/cat2"),
@@ -120,4 +146,32 @@ mod tests {
             assert_eq!(&vals[..], &[4]);
         }
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_multifastfield_reader_min_max() {
+        let mut schema_builder = Schema::builder();
+        let field_options = IntOptions::default()
+            .set_indexed()
+            .set_fast(Cardinality::MultiValues);
+        let item_field = schema_builder.add_i64_field("items", field_options);
+        let schema = schema_builder.build();
+        let index = Index::create_in_ram(schema);
+        let mut index_writer = index
+            .writer_for_tests()
+            .expect("Failed to create index writer.");
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(
+            item_field => 2i64,
+            item_field => 3i64,
+            item_field => -2i64,
+        ));
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(item_field => 6i64, item_field => 3i64));
+        index_writer.add_document(doc!(item_field => 4i64));
+        index_writer.commit().expect("Commit failed");
+        let searcher = index.reader().unwrap().searcher();
+        let segment_reader = searcher.segment_reader(0);
+        let field_reader = segment_reader.fast_fields().i64s(item_field).unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(field_reader.min_value(), -2);
+        assert_eq!(field_reader.max_value(), 6);
+    }
 }