diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 84494cfd39a..df2bb933acb 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ Bug fixes
   this is IndexWriter.deleteAll, or opening an IndexWriter with
   OpenMode.CREATE)  (Mike McCandless)
 
+* LUCENE-5704: Fix compilation error with Java 8u20.  (Uwe Schindler)
+
 Test Framework
 
 * LUCENE-5622: Fail tests if they print over the given limit of bytes to 
diff --git a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/DirectDocValuesProducer.java b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/DirectDocValuesProducer.java
index 32cd3b93cbe..7ca86b64cff 100644
--- a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/DirectDocValuesProducer.java
+++ b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/DirectDocValuesProducer.java
@@ -105,10 +105,10 @@ class DirectDocValuesProducer extends DocValuesProducer {
       }
     }
 
+    String dataName = IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(state.segmentInfo.name, state.segmentSuffix, dataExtension);
+    this.data = state.directory.openInput(dataName, state.context);
     success = false;
     try {
-      String dataName = IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(state.segmentInfo.name, state.segmentSuffix, dataExtension);
-      data = state.directory.openInput(dataName, state.context);
       final int version2 = CodecUtil.checkHeader(data, dataCodec, 
                                                  VERSION_START,
                                                  VERSION_CURRENT);
diff --git a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/MemoryDocValuesProducer.java b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/MemoryDocValuesProducer.java
index 815bad5ca30..2f4dfb3b4e1 100644
--- a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/MemoryDocValuesProducer.java
+++ b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/MemoryDocValuesProducer.java
@@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ class MemoryDocValuesProducer extends DocValuesProducer {
       }
     }
 
+    String dataName = IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(state.segmentInfo.name, state.segmentSuffix, dataExtension);
+    this.data = state.directory.openInput(dataName, state.context);
     success = false;
     try {
-      String dataName = IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(state.segmentInfo.name, state.segmentSuffix, dataExtension);
-      data = state.directory.openInput(dataName, state.context);
       final int version2 = CodecUtil.checkHeader(data, dataCodec, 
                                                  VERSION_START,
                                                  VERSION_CURRENT);
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene42/Lucene42DocValuesProducer.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene42/Lucene42DocValuesProducer.java
index d38fff0ac0b..d8fb280ce4a 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene42/Lucene42DocValuesProducer.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene42/Lucene42DocValuesProducer.java
@@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ class Lucene42DocValuesProducer extends DocValuesProducer {
       }
     }
 
+    String dataName = IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(state.segmentInfo.name, state.segmentSuffix, dataExtension);
+    this.data = state.directory.openInput(dataName, state.context);
     success = false;
     try {
-      String dataName = IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(state.segmentInfo.name, state.segmentSuffix, dataExtension);
-      data = state.directory.openInput(dataName, state.context);
       final int version2 = CodecUtil.checkHeader(data, dataCodec, 
                                                  VERSION_START,
                                                  VERSION_CURRENT);
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene45/Lucene45DocValuesProducer.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene45/Lucene45DocValuesProducer.java
index 54a75d5668d..f0a8456bfc6 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene45/Lucene45DocValuesProducer.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene45/Lucene45DocValuesProducer.java
@@ -127,10 +127,10 @@ public class Lucene45DocValuesProducer extends DocValuesProducer implements Clos
       }
     }
 
+    String dataName = IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(state.segmentInfo.name, state.segmentSuffix, dataExtension);
+    this.data = state.directory.openInput(dataName, state.context);
     success = false;
     try {
-      String dataName = IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(state.segmentInfo.name, state.segmentSuffix, dataExtension);
-      data = state.directory.openInput(dataName, state.context);
       final int version2 = CodecUtil.checkHeader(data, dataCodec, 
                                                  Lucene45DocValuesFormat.VERSION_START,
                                                  Lucene45DocValuesFormat.VERSION_CURRENT);