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

- Packages that use PointsFormat
  Package | Description
  --- | ---
  org.apache.lucene.codecs | Codecs API: API for customization of the encoding and structure of the index.
  org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene90 | Lucene 9.0 file format.
  org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene92 | Lucene 9.2 file format.

- - ### Uses of PointsFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs

    Fields in org.apache.lucene.codecs declared as PointsFormat
    Modifier and Type | Field | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `static PointsFormat` | PointsFormat.`EMPTY` | A `PointsFormat` that has nothing indexed

    Methods in org.apache.lucene.codecs that return PointsFormat
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `abstract PointsFormat` | Codec.`pointsFormat()` | Encodes/decodes points index
    `PointsFormat` | FilterCodec.`pointsFormat()` |

  - ### Uses of PointsFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene90

    Subclasses of PointsFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene90
    Modifier and Type | Class | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `class` | `Lucene90PointsFormat` | Lucene 9.0 point format, which encodes dimensional values in a block KD-tree structure for fast 1D range and N dimensional shape intersection filtering.

  - ### Uses of PointsFormat in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene92

    Methods in org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene92 that return PointsFormat
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `PointsFormat` | Lucene92Codec.`pointsFormat()` |