LUCENE-8242: Remove IndexSearcher.createNormalizedWeight

lucene/CHANGES.txt

@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ API Changes
 * LUCENE-8113: TermContext has been renamed to TermStates, and can now be
   constructed lazily if term statistics are not required (Alan Woodward)
 
+* LUCENE-8242: Deprecated method IndexSearcher#createNormalizedWeight() has
+  been removed (Alan Woodward)
+
 Changes in Runtime Behavior
 
 * LUCENE-7837: Indices that were created before the previous major version

lucene/MIGRATE.txt

@@ -37,3 +37,9 @@ Changing index options on the fly is now going to result into an
 IllegalArgumentException. If a field is indexed
 (FieldType.indexOptions() != IndexOptions.NONE) then all documents must have
 the same index options for that field.
+
+
+## IndexSearcher.createNormalizedWeight() removed (LUCENE-8242) ##
+
+Instead use IndexSearcher.createWeight(), rewriting the query first, and using
+a boost of 1f.

lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java

@@ -679,22 +679,6 @@ public class IndexSearcher {
     return weight.explain(ctx, deBasedDoc);
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Creates a normalized weight for a top-level {@link Query}.
-   * The query is rewritten by this method and {@link Query#createWeight} called,
-   * afterwards the {@link Weight} is normalized. The returned {@code Weight}
-   * can then directly be used to get a {@link Scorer}.
-   * @lucene.internal
-   *
-   * @deprecated Clients should rewrite the query and then call {@link #createWeight(Query, ScoreMode, float)}
-   *             with a boost value of 1f
-   */
-  @Deprecated
-  public Weight createNormalizedWeight(Query query, ScoreMode scoreMode) throws IOException {
-    query = rewrite(query);
-    return createWeight(query, scoreMode, 1f);
-  }
-
   /**
    * Creates a {@link Weight} for the given query, potentially adding caching
    * if possible and configured.