This was done under LUCENE-1333, in moving Token to the "reuse" API.
The general idea is to deprecate the String based APIs (whose
performance got worse because of the switch to char[]), in favor of
the char[] APIs.
That said, I do agree it's still useful to have String based variants,
at the ex
Hi
I moved to use Lucene 2.4 and noticed that some of the Token constructors
were marked deprecated. Specifically, I'm talking about the Token(String,
int, int), where the String is the word to populate the token with, and the
two ints are startOffset and endOffset respectively.
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