[LUCENE-3061] Open IndexWriter API to allow custom MergeScheduler implementation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.2, 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: core/index
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Shai Erera
• Reporter: Shai Erera
• Created: 02/May/11 10:38
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:45
• Resolved: 02/May/11 14:00

Description

IndexWriter's getNextMerge() and merge(OneMerge) are package-private, which makes it impossible for someone to implement his own MergeScheduler. We should open up these API, as well as any other that can be useful for custom MS implementations.