IndexOutput writeVInt and others

[Grant Ingersoll]

I have been fiddling w/ some payload token filter helpers, such as the  
NumericPayloadTokenFilter.  I was in the process of adding a  
TokenOffsetPayloadTokenFilter (what a mouthful) that adds the start  
and end offset as payloads to the token.  Now, the easiest way to do  
this is to encode the first 4 bytes with the startOffset and another 4  
bytes as the endOffset.  Then it occurs to me that it might make sense  
to encode them as vInts to save some bits.  Naturally, there is no  
point in duplicating code, so I wonder if it makes sense to make these  
available for people wanting to encode payloads.  Any thoughts on this?

-Grant
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