[LUCENE-3687] Allow similarity to encode norms other than a single byte

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: core/index, core/search
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Simon Willnauer
• Reporter: Simon Willnauer
• Created: 11/Jan/12 11:29
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:05
• Resolved: 16/Jan/12 14:57

Description

LUCENE-3628 cut over norms to docvalues. This removes the long standing limitation that norms are a single byte. Yet, we still need to expose this functionality to Similarity to write / encode norms in a different format.

Issue Links

• requires: LUCENE-3694 DocValuesField should not overload setInt/setFloat etc