[LUCENE-4391] Lucene40Codec methods should be final

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Adrien Grand
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 15/Sep/12 09:22
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:27
• Resolved: 18/Sep/12 16:10

Description

I think all methods but getPostingsFormatForField should be made final so that users can't create a Codec that redefines any of the formats of Lucene40 by subclassing (since the codec name can't be overriden by subclassing, Lucene will fail at loading segments that use such codecs).