FilterPolicy接口 # 1 2class LEVELDB_EXPORT FilterPolicy { 3 public: 4 virtual ~FilterPolicy(); 5 6 // Return the name of this policy. Note that if the filter encoding 7 // changes in an incompatible way, the name returned by this method 8 // must be changed. Otherwise, old incompatible filters may be 9 // passed to methods of this type. 10 virtual const char* Name() const = 0; 11 12 // keys[0,n-1] contains a list of keys (potentially with duplicates) 13 // that are ordered according to the user supplied comparator. 14 // Append a filter that summarizes keys[0,n-1] to *dst. 15 // 16 // Warning: do not change the initial contents of *dst. Instead, 17 // append the newly constructed filter to *dst. 18 virtual void CreateFilter(const Slice* keys, int n, 19 std::string* dst) const = 0; 20 21 // "filter" contains the data appended by a preceding call to 22 // CreateFilter() on this class. This method must return true if 23 // the key was in the list of keys passed to CreateFilter(). 24 // This method may return true or false if the key was not on the 25 // list, but it should aim to return false with a high probability. 26 virtual bool KeyMayMatch(const Slice& key, const Slice& filter) const = 0; 27}; 其中CreateFilter的含义是从n个key生成一个 std::string. 生成的std::string可以包含n个key的信息(类似于生成了一个全集) 从而后续判断某个key是否在其中。