Hi Hamid, Can't you just extend Similarity instead?
Alan Woodward www.flax.co.uk On 24 Oct 2014, at 08:04, Hafiz Hamid wrote: > Hi - I wanted to check if folks would be okay with removing the "final" > modifier from 4 methods (i.e. computeNorm,computeWeight, exactSimScorer and > sloppySimScorer) in Lucene's TFIDFSimilarity class. It doesn't look like > allowing to override these methods would have any negative implications on > the function of this class. Yet it'd enable us tune the tf-idf scoring > provided by this class to better serve our needs. > > I've logged a Jira issue for this: LUCENE-6023. If folks don't have any > objection, I've a patch ready and can upload it. > > Thanks, > Hamid