[LUCENE-3590] minimize bytesref to be a ref to a byte[]

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA, 3.6.1
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 24/Nov/11 14:20
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:02
• Resolved: 29/May/12 16:10

Description

Setting this as blocker for 4.0, as this class is used in every API there.

Currently this API is a little of a everything, sometimes its like a stringbuffer, it
does numeric conversions, all kinds of stuff.

We need this to be a ref to a byte[], nothing else. This other stuff can go somewhere else.

Sub-Tasks

• Make BytesRef.copy[Int,Short,Long] package private for DocValues: Closed
• Make BytesRef#startsWith & BytesRef#endsWith static: Closed