[LUCENE-6884] Analyzer.tokenStream() shouldn't throw IOException

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.4
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Alan Woodward
• Reporter: Alan Woodward
• Created: 04/Nov/15 14:15
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:45
• Resolved: 05/Nov/15 10:28

Description

I'm guessing that in the past, calling Analyzer.tokenStream() would call TokenStream.reset() somewhere downstream, meaning that we had to deal with IOExceptions. However, tokenstreams are created entirely lazily now, so this is unnecessary.