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Simon Willnauer commented on LUCENE-3464:
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just a couple of variants:

tryReopen()
reopenOnChange()


just and idea, we could also have a higherlevel api here on IR that refreshes 
the reader something like IR IR#refresh(IR prefious, boolean closePrevious)

> Rename IndexReader.reopen to make it clear that reopen may not happen
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-3464
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3464
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>             Fix For: 3.5, 4.0
>
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> Spinoff from LUCENE-3454 where Shai noted this inconsistency.
> IR.reopen sounds like an unconditional operation, which has trapped users in 
> the past into always closing the old reader instead of only closing it if the 
> returned reader is new.
> I think this hidden maybe-ness is trappy and we should rename it 
> (maybeReopen?  reopenIfNeeded?).
> In addition, instead of returning "this" when the reopen didn't happen, I 
> think we should return null to enforce proper usage of the maybe-ness of this 
> API.

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