apache/lucene

Deprecate MergeSpecification#segString method in MergePolicy

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#14899 opened on Jul 5, 2025

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good first issue

Description

Following up from an old TODO, we can deprecate MergePolicy.MergeSpecification#segString. The places it's used (only 1?) doesn't need the directory param, and can simply use the toString() method.

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refactor
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Research direction
Deprecate the segString method in MergePolicy.MergeSpecification. The method currently has a TODO comment at line 497 of MergePolicy.java. There is one usage in the codebase that can be replaced with toString(). Check if there are other usages. The issue has an assignee, but no linked PR yet.