Hi Luc, I'm OK with you backporting this to 6.0. I think its important for shoring up the API.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Le jeu. 3 mars 2016 à 15:13, Vanlerberghe, Luc < > luc.vanlerber...@bvdinfo.com> a écrit : > >> - I didn’t leave any public MultiPhraseQuery constructors like >> you did for PhraseQuery. Adding a few afterwards shouldn’t break anything >> though. >> > > I think it's good this way: I added them for PhraseQuer because I thought > it should be easy to create simple phrase queries but maybe it was a > mistake. MultiPhraseQuery on the other hand is an expert query so I'm > totally fine with not having convenience constructors. > > >> - The private termArrays and positions members could become >> fixed arrays like you did for PhraseQuery. This would change the signature >> of getTermArrays() and getPositions(), so perhaps it should happen now… >> > Actually I think returning a list is better: with arrays you need to > perform a deep copy if you want to make sure that the user cannot change > the internal state of the query. We could keep arrays internally and call > Collections.unmodifiableList(Arrays.asList(termArrays)) when returning the > terms to the user? > >