[LUCENE-4122] Replace Payload with BytesRef

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA, 6.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA, 6.0
• Component/s: core/index
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Andrzej Bialecki
• Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
• Created: 08/Jun/12 16:32
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:33
• Resolved: 08/Jun/12 20:19

Description

The Payload class offers a very similar functionality to BytesRef. The code internally uses BytesRef-s to represent payloads, and on indexing and on retrieval this data is repackaged from/to Payload.

This seems wasteful. I propose to remove the Payload class and use BytesRef instead, thus avoid this re-wrapping and reducing the API footprint.