[LUCENE-1064] Make TopDocs constructor public

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2
• Component/s: core/search

Environment

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• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael Busch
• Reporter: Shai Erera
• Created: 22/Nov/07 12:51
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 11:42
• Resolved: 06/Dec/07 09:07

Description

TopDocs constructor is package visible. This prevents instantiating it from outside this package. For example, I wrote a HitColletor that couldn't extend directly from TopDocCollector. I need to create a new TopDocs instance, however since the c'tor is package visible, I can't do that.
For now, I completely duplicated the code, but I hope you'll fix it soon.