## Uses of Class
org.apache.lucene.codecs.DocValuesFormat

Packages that use DocValuesFormat
org.apache.lucene.codecs: Codecs API: API for customization of the encoding and structure of the index.
org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene80: Components from the Lucene 8.0 index format See `org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene84` for an overview of the index format.
org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene86: Lucene 8.6 file format.
org.apache.lucene.codecs.perfield: Postings format that can delegate to different formats per-field.

### Uses of DocValuesFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs

Methods in org.apache.lucene.codecs that return DocValuesFormat
`DocValuesFormat` FilterCodec.`docValuesFormat()`
`abstract DocValuesFormat` Codec.`docValuesFormat()` Encodes/decodes docvalues
`static DocValuesFormat` DocValuesFormat.`forName(String name)` looks up a format by name

### Uses of DocValuesFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene80

Subclasses of DocValuesFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene80
`class` `Lucene80DocValuesFormat` Lucene 8.0 DocValues format.

### Uses of DocValuesFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene86

Methods in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene86 that return DocValuesFormat
`DocValuesFormat` Lucene86Codec.`docValuesFormat()`
`DocValuesFormat` Lucene86Codec.`getDocValuesFormatForField(String field)` Returns the docvalues format that should be used for writing new segments of `field`.

### Uses of DocValuesFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.perfield

Subclasses of DocValuesFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.perfield
`class` `PerFieldDocValuesFormat` Enables per field docvalues support.

Methods in org.apache.lucene.codecs.perfield that return DocValuesFormat
`abstract DocValuesFormat` PerFieldDocValuesFormat.`getDocValuesFormatForField(String field)` Returns the doc values format that should be used for writing new segments of `field`.