Tests using Version.LUCENE_CURRENT will produce problems in backwards branch,
wen development for 3.2 starts
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Key: LUCENE-2248
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2248
Project: Lucene - Java
Issue Type: Test
Components: Analysis, contrib/*, contrib/analyzers,
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Store, Term Vectors
Reporter: Uwe Schindler
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 3.1
A lot of tests for the most-recent functionality in Lucene use
Version.LUCENE_CURRENT, which is fine in trunk, as we use the most recent
version without hassle and changing this in later versions.
The problem is, if we copy these tests to backwards branch after 3.1 is out and
then start to improve analyzers, we then will have the maintenance hell for
backwards tests. And we loose backward compatibility testing for older
versions. If we would specify a specific version like LUCENE_31 in our tests,
after moving to backwards they must work without any changes!
To not always modify all tests after a new version comes out (e.g. after
switching to 3.2 dev), I propse to do the following:
- declare a static final Version TEST_VERSION = Version.LUCENE_CURRENT (or
better) Version.LUCENE_31 in LuceneTestCase(4J).
- change all tests that use Version.LUCENE_CURRENT using eclipse refactor to
use this constant and remove unneeded import statements.
When we then move the tests to backward we must only change one line, depending
on how we define this constant:
- If in trunk LuceneTestCase it's Version.LUCENE_CURRENT, we just change the
backwards branch to use the version numer of the released thing.
- If trunk already uses the LUCENE_31 constant (I prefer this), we do not need
to change backwards, but instead when switching version numbers we just move
trunk forward to the next major version (after added to Version enum).
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