[LUCENE-9047] Directory APIs should be little endian

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Ignacio Vera
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 13/Nov/19 21:36
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:53
• Resolved: 03/May/21 05:50

Description

We started discussing this on LUCENE-9027. It's a shame that we need to keep reversing the order of bytes all the time because our APIs are big endian while the vast majority of architectures are little endian.

Issue Links

• is related to: SOLR-15405 Make HDFS handle little endian LUCENE-9047
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #98
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #102
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #107
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #123
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2094
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2100