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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-5989:
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Maybe we could baby step here, and just change StoredFieldVisitor.stringField 
to take byte[]? I know this doesn't help all the stupid work we do during 
default merge to decode/encode but at least it's a start ...
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Thanks for looking into it. Maybe we can remove the smooshing in a separate 
issue. I think its really bad that our default merge impl creates so many 
strings.

> Add BinaryField, to index a single binary token
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 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
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-5989.patch, LUCENE-5989.patch
>
>
> 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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