[LUCENE-2691] Consolidate Near Real Time and Reopen API semantics

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.1, 4.0-ALPHA
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Grant Ingersoll
• Created: 09/Oct/10 14:27
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:33
• Resolved: 20/Jan/11 19:06

Description

We should consolidate the IndexWriter.getReader and the IndexReader.reopen semantics, since most people are already using the IR.reopen() method, we should simply add::

IR.reopen(IndexWriter)

Initially, it could just call the IW.getReader(), but it probably should switch to just using package private methods for sharing the internals