[LUCENE-2514] Change Term to use bytes

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: core/search
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Robert Muir
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 24/Jun/10 16:28
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:28
• Resolved: 28/Feb/11 05:16

Description

in LUCENE-2426, the sort order was changed to codepoint order.

unfortunately, Term is still using string internally, and more importantly its compareTo() uses the wrong order [utf-16].
So MultiTermQuery, etc (especially its priority queues) are currently wrong.

By changing Term to use bytes, we can also support terms encoded as bytes such as numerics, instead of using
strange string encodings.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: LUCENE-2364 Add support for terms in BytesRef format to Term, TermQuery, TermRangeQuery & Co.
• is depended upon by: LUCENE-2551 change jdk & icu collation to use byte[]