SOLR-11603: Remove unused (public) LTRScoringModel.hasParams() method.

solr/CHANGES.txt

@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ Other Changes
 
 * SOLR-11380: SolrJ must stream docs to server instead of writing to a buffer first (noble)
 
+* SOLR-11603: Remove unused (public) LTRScoringModel.hasParams() method. (Christine Poerschke)
+
 ==================  7.1.0 ==================
 
 Consult the LUCENE_CHANGES.txt file for additional, low level, changes in this release.

solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/model/LTRScoringModel.java

@@ -229,10 +229,6 @@ public abstract class LTRScoringModel {
     return true;
   }
 
-  public boolean hasParams() {
-    return !((params == null) || params.isEmpty());
-  }
-
   public Collection<Feature> getAllFeatures() {
     return allFeatures;
   }