Hi Akira, It was intentionally moved from DataInput in https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/13830
There's a whole story about it here: https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/13825 Hope that helps, Froh On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM Akira Lonske <akiralon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! My name is Akira Lonske, and this summer I’ll be working as a SWE > intern for Amazon's Lucene Search Team. I’m very grateful and excited for > this opportunity to dive into the world of open source! > > For my first project, I have been assigned the implementation and testing > of GroupVarInt encoding for HNSW Graphs. > > I had finished making edits to the Lucene99HnswVectorsWriter file, but > when I started editing the Lucene99HnswVectorsReader file, I realized that > I could not call the readGroupVInts method on IndexInput instances because > that method is not written in DataInput, even though the writeGroupVInts > methods are written in DataOutput. > > Is this asymmetry intentional, or simply an oversight? It seemed easy > enough to write equivalent methods for DataInput that simply call the > method in GroupVIntUtil, but perhaps I am missing something. Any > clarification would be much appreciated. > > Thank you! > Akira > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
