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

Packages that use PostingsFormat
org.apache.lucene.codecs: Codecs API: API for customization of the encoding and structure of the index.
org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene84: Components from the Lucene 8.4 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 PostingsFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs

Fields in org.apache.lucene.codecs declared as PostingsFormat
`static PostingsFormat[]` PostingsFormat.`EMPTY` Zero-length `PostingsFormat` array.

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

### Uses of PostingsFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene84

Subclasses of PostingsFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene84
`class` `Lucene84PostingsFormat` Lucene 5.0 postings format, which encodes postings in packed integer blocks for fast decode.

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

Methods in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene86 that return PostingsFormat
`PostingsFormat` Lucene86Codec.`getPostingsFormatForField(String field)` Returns the postings format that should be used for writing new segments of `field`.
`PostingsFormat` Lucene86Codec.`postingsFormat()`

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

Subclasses of PostingsFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.perfield
`class` `PerFieldPostingsFormat` Enables per field postings support.

Methods in org.apache.lucene.codecs.perfield that return PostingsFormat
`abstract PostingsFormat` PerFieldPostingsFormat.`getPostingsFormatForField(String field)` Returns the postings format that should be used for writing new segments of `field`.