[LUCENE-2908] clean up serialization in the codebase

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Robert Muir
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 06/Feb/11 16:05
• Updated: 10/May/13 10:44
• Resolved: 08/Feb/11 19:06

Description

We removed contrib/remote, but forgot to cleanup serialization hell everywhere.

this is no longer needed, never really worked (e.g. across versions), and slows
development (e.g. i wasted a long time debugging stupid serialization of
Similarity.idfExplain when trying to make a patch for the scoring system).

Issue Links

• supercedes: LUCENE-2707 NumericField throws a NotSerializableException when it is serialized, even though it implements Serializable