Hello! Is it possible to serialize Lucene's Automata? I see that the javadoc for the original BRICS package indicates that instances of Automaton implement Serialzable, but this is not the case with the Automaton class in Lucene 5+.
I assume it is possible, considering that a FSA is basically just a set of states and transitions, but how would I go about (1) extracting that data from an instance of automaton and (2) recreating the original automaton given a set of transitions and states as it would be possible to obtain them from a live instance? Alternatively, maybe there is some other place where this is implemented? How can I persist lucene's automata? thanks, jta -- entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
