zardoz/vendor/github.com/blevesearch/bleve/document/field.go

//  Copyright (c) 2014 Couchbase, Inc.
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package document

import (
	"github.com/blevesearch/bleve/analysis"
)

type Field interface {
	// Name returns the path of the field from the root DocumentMapping.
	// A root field path is "field", a subdocument field is "parent.field".
	Name() string
	// ArrayPositions returns the intermediate document and field indices
	// required to resolve the field value in the document. For example, if the
	// field path is "doc1.doc2.field" where doc1 and doc2 are slices or
	// arrays, ArrayPositions returns 2 indices used to resolve "doc2" value in
	// "doc1", then "field" in "doc2".
	ArrayPositions() []uint64
	Options() IndexingOptions
	Analyze() (int, analysis.TokenFrequencies)
	Value() []byte

	// NumPlainTextBytes should return the number of plain text bytes
	// that this field represents - this is a common metric for tracking
	// the rate of indexing
	NumPlainTextBytes() uint64

	Size() int
}