[LUCENE-7045] remove all encode/decode hooks from PointRangeQuery

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 23/Feb/16 18:27
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:50
• Resolved: 23/Feb/16 22:07

Description

In LUCENE-7043 we added several new point types and just gave them static methods to generate exact/range/prefix/whatever queries.

I think we should do the same in general, e.g. for IntPoint:

This field defines static factory methods for creating common queries:
<ul>
  <li>{@link #newExactQuery newExactQuery()} for matching an exact 1D point.
  <li>{@link #newRangeQuery newRangeQuery()} for matching a 1D range.
  <li>{@link #newMultiRangeQuery newMultiRangeQuery()} for matching points/ranges in n-dimensional space.
</ul>

Then each Point can have types that make sense for it: e.g. multi-dimensional range queries don't make sense at all for IP addresses, but prefix query does, and polygon/distance queries make sense for LatLonPoint and so on (that one is not refactored yet here, followup!)