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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-3001:
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The problem with the binary encoding in Lucene is/was: Lucene lacks a schema,
so you cannot use the Document.get() methods on the search results to "easy"
get the field. This is why the NumericField (which is *not* returned on
retrieving search results) was simply encoded as String values. The stored
field contents are not really relevant to search, the toString() was only added
to NumericField to support an easy to use encoding.
The problem is again compatibility: Lucene must still support the old encoding
and lots of software relies on it (because you can simply use Document.get() on
search results). So I propose to extend NumericField to have it's own
Field.Store enum (that provides both stored field encodings). The default
precisionStep should not be changed (and solr should also switch to 4 as
default).
Then somebody can use: new NumericField(precisionStep,
NumericField.Store.STRING / NumericField.Store.BINARY,...). Solr can then also
return NumericField instances in it getFieldable() method. For decoding search
results some wrapper must be provided to Lucene (until we have a schema).
This is just a starting point for discussion.
> Add TrieFieldHelper lucene so we can write solr compatible Trie* fields w/o
> solr dependency
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> Key: LUCENE-3001
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3001
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Ryan McKinley
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: LUCENE-3001-TrieFieldHelper.patch
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> The solr support for numeric fields writes the stored value as binary vs the
> lucene NumericField
> We should move this logic to a helper class in lucene core so that libraries
> that do not depend on solr can write TrieFields that solr can read.
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