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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:25:05 +0100
From: sergiu gordea <gsergiu@ifit.uni-klu.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: How do Lucene applications deal with API changes?
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Bill Janssen wrote:

>Thanks to Bill Tschumy, who points out that Lucene 1.4.21 *breaks* the
>API exported by 1.4 by removing a parameter from
>QueryParser.getFieldQuery().  That means that my
>NewMultiFieldQueryParser also breaks, since it overrides that method.
>To fix, just remove the Analyzer parameter from the getFieldQuery()
>method in NewMultiFieldQueryParser.
>
>More generally, how is an application developer that wants to use
>Lucene supposed to deal with these kinds of things?  It's a micro
>release, the change isn't noted in the CHANGES.txt file, and as far as
>I can see, there are no version numbers in the jar file you could look
>at during an application "configure".
>
>Does anyone have any successful ways of dealing with these kinds of
>things?  The only thing I can think of is to put a specific Lucene jar
>in my app source code.
>  
>
what about writing a JUnit test?
It can show when the code is broken. It's not too much improvement but 
it can be an improvement.
I have a testcase ... for my parser .. maybe I can adapt it share the code.

Sergiu

>Bill
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