[LUCENE-4231] Lucene-test-framework has META-INF for Codec for PreFlexRWCodec but not instantiatable

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-BETA
• Component/s: general/test
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Smiley
• Created: 17/Jul/12 20:14
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:22
• Resolved: 17/Jul/12 21:02

Description

The Lucene-test-framework for 4.0-ALPHA contains /META-INF/services/org.apache.lucene.codecs.Codec which I didn't expect; shouldn't that only be in Lucene-core ? Well its there, and it contains org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene3x.PreFlexRWCodec which is actually a class embedded in the test framework jar file (again, unexpected). However, this class depends on the existence of Lucene3xCodec which is not part of this jar file.

I discovered this because I accidentally had the lucene-test-framework 4.0-ALPHA on my classpath along with the lucene-core 5.0 but Codec would fail at class initialization time because the services failed to resolve.