From fbfd147b23afb2b7ff5067f2e95d5064340ec56f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael McCandless <mikemccand@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:35:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] LUCENE-2108: add SpellChecker.close()

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/trunk@886911 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 contrib/CHANGES.txt                                       | 6 +++++-
 .../java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/SpellChecker.java | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/CHANGES.txt b/contrib/CHANGES.txt
index cc154879cdd..67cb8f96eff 100644
--- a/contrib/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/contrib/CHANGES.txt
@@ -10,13 +10,17 @@ Bug fixes
    now reverses supplementary characters correctly if used with Version > 3.0.
    (Simon Willnauer, Robert Muir)
    
+API Changes
+
+ * LUCENE-2108: Add SpellChecker.close, to close the underlying
+   reader.  (Eirik Bjørsnøs via Mike McCandless)
+
 New features
 
  * LUCENE-2067: Add a Czech light stemmer. CzechAnalyzer will now stem words
    when Version is set to 3.1 or higher.  (Robert Muir)
    
  * LUCENE-2062: Add a Bulgarian analyzer.  (Robert Muir, Simon Willnauer)
-   
 
 ======================= Release 3.0.0 2009-11-25 =======================
 
diff --git a/contrib/spellchecker/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/SpellChecker.java b/contrib/spellchecker/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/SpellChecker.java
index d974ee06932..af229a92730 100755
--- a/contrib/spellchecker/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/SpellChecker.java
+++ b/contrib/spellchecker/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/SpellChecker.java
@@ -409,4 +409,12 @@ public class SpellChecker {
       }
     }
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Close the IndexSearcher used by this SpellChecker.
+   */
+  public void close() throws IOException {
+    searcher.close();
+    searcher = null;
+  }
 }