[LUCENE-5739] Add zig-zag encoding support to DataInput/DataOutput

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.10, 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Adrien Grand
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 05/Jun/14 17:42
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:09
• Resolved: 31/Jul/14 12:52

Description

It would be convenient to have support for zig-zag-encoded integers in DataInput/DataOutput. There are not many places that use that feature today but I think it's quite common to need to read/write small signed values.