[LUCENE-4440] FilterCodec should take a delegate Codec in its ctor

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0-BETA
• Fix Version/s: 4.0, 4.1, 6.0
• Component/s: core/codecs
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Uwe Schindler
• Reporter: Shai Erera
• Created: 27/Sep/12 13:19
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:34
• Resolved: 27/Sep/12 17:52

Description

FilterCodec has a delegate() method through which an extension can return its delegate Codec. This method is called on every Codec method. Adrien, on LUCENE-4391, failed to pass a Codec in the ctor, since he couldn't called Codec.forName().

Instead, we should just pass e.g. new Lucene40Codec(). I'll post a patch shortly.

Issue Links

• relates to: LUCENE-6482 Class loading deadlock relating to Codec initialization, default codec and SPI discovery