LUCENE-10431: Remove MultiTermQuery.setRewriteMethod() (apache#726)

lucene/CHANGES.txt

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ API Changes
 * LUCENE-10440: TaxonomyFacets and FloatTaxonomyFacets have been made pkg-private and only serve
   as internal implementation details of taxonomy-faceting. (Greg Miller)
 
+* LUCENE-10431: MultiTermQuery.setRewriteMethod() has been removed. (Alan Woodward)
+
 New Features
 ---------------------
 

lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/MultiTermQuery.java

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
  */
 public abstract class MultiTermQuery extends Query {
   protected final String field;
-  protected RewriteMethod rewriteMethod; // TODO make this final
+  protected final RewriteMethod rewriteMethod;
 
   /** Abstract class that defines how the query is rewritten. */
   public abstract static class RewriteMethod {
@@ -283,21 +283,11 @@ public final Query rewrite(IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
     return rewriteMethod.rewrite(reader, this);
   }
 
+  /** @return the rewrite method used to build the final query */
   public RewriteMethod getRewriteMethod() {
     return rewriteMethod;
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Sets the rewrite method to be used when executing the query. You can use one of the four core
-   * methods, or implement your own subclass of {@link RewriteMethod}.
-   *
-   * @deprecated set this using a constructor instead
-   */
-  @Deprecated
-  public void setRewriteMethod(RewriteMethod method) {
-    rewriteMethod = method;
-  }
-
   @Override
   public int hashCode() {
     final int prime = 31;