[LUCENE-8268] MatchesIterator.term() should return an array

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Alan Woodward
• Reporter: Alan Woodward
• Created: 23/Apr/18 08:40
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:28
• Resolved: 23/Apr/18 14:24

Description

At the moment, we return a single BytesRef from MatchesIterator.term(), which works well for the queries that currently implement this. This won't be enough for queries that operate on more than one term, however, such as phrase or Span queries.

In preparation for LUCENE-8249, this issue will change the method to return an array of BytesRef