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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-5989:
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bq. Why jump to the conclusion that a user would have a byte[] already for an
IP address? Thats a horrible representation Why wouldn't they pass
java.net.Inet6Address?
I agree: taking Inet6Address would be great, but under the hood it should be
indexed as a byte[] (which this issue is trying to enable), right? I'll go
reopen LUCENE-5596...
bq. I'm just saying that if they then go do the following in queryparser, why
can't it please work? (ranges too)
+1, but that's really out of scope here? I mean I don't think we can solve all
of Lucene's "schema" issues here. Seems like LUCENE-5596 should make it easy
to do IP address range querying...
> Add BinaryField, to index a single binary token
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> Key: LUCENE-5989
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5989
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Assignee: Michael McCandless
> Fix For: 5.0, Trunk
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> Attachments: LUCENE-5989.patch
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> 5 years ago (LUCENE-1458) we "enabled" fully binary terms in the
> lowest levels of Lucene (the codec APIs) yet today, actually adding an
> arbitrary byte[] binary term during indexing is far from simple: you
> must make a custom Field with a custom TokenStream and a custom
> TermToBytesRefAttribute, as far as I know.
> This is supremely expert, I wonder if anyone out there has succeeded
> in doing so?
> I think we should make indexing a single byte[] as simple as indexing
> a single String.
> This is a pre-cursor for issues like LUCENE-5596 (encoding IPv6
> address as byte[16]) and LUCENE-5879 (encoding native numeric values
> in their simple binary form).
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