[LUCENE-811] Public API inconsistency

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.2
• Component/s: core/index

Environment

2.1.0 release

• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
• Created: 22/Feb/07 09:11
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 11:35
• Resolved: 27/Feb/07 13:29

Description

org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos is public, and contains public methods (which is good for expert-level index manipulation tools such as Luke). However, SegmentInfo class has package visibility. This leads to a strange result that it's possible to read SegmentInfos, but it's not possible to access its details (SegmentInfos.info(int)) from a user application.

The solution is to make SegmentInfo class public.