[LUCENE-3836] Most Codec.*Format().*Reader() methods should use SegmentReadState

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: core/codecs
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Andrzej Bialecki
• Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
• Created: 01/Mar/12 11:56
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:09
• Resolved: 01/Mar/12 16:44

Description

Codec formats API for opening readers is inconsistent - sometimes it uses SegmentReadState, in other cases it uses individual arguments that are already available via SegmentReadState. This complicates extending the API, e.g. if additional per-segment state would need to be passed to the readers.