[LUCENE-4896] PostingsHighlighter should use a interface of PassageFormatter instead of a class

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.2
• Fix Version/s: 4.3, 6.0
• Component/s: modules/highlighter
• Labels: newdev

Environment

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• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sebastien Dionne
• Created: 02/Apr/13 00:53
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:43
• Resolved: 12/Apr/13 18:39

Description

In my project I need a custom PassageFormatter to use with PostingsHighlighter. I extended PassageFormatter to override format(...)

but if I do that, I don't have access to the private variables. So instead of changing the scope to protected, it should be more usefull to use a interface for PassageFormatter.

like public DefaultPassageFormatter implements PassageFormatter.