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Uwe Schindler edited comment on LUCENE-3687 at 1/13/12 10:38 AM:
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bq. Why? this is really confusing! I think setByte should take byte, setInt 
int, setLong, long etc.

I agree. That's also a problem in other DocValues use cases like sorting. The 
SortField name uses INT but sorts by long and so on. There is already an issue 
open: LUCENE-3192
                
      was (Author: thetaphi):
    Why? this is really confusing! I think setByte should take byte, setInt 
int, setLong, long etc.

I agree. That's also a problem in other DocValues use cases like sorting. The 
SortField name uses INT but sorts by long and so on. There is already an issue 
open: LUCENE-3192
                  
> Allow similarity to encode norms other than a single byte
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-3687
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3687
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: core/index, core/search
>    Affects Versions: 4.0
>            Reporter: Simon Willnauer
>             Fix For: 4.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-3687.patch, LUCENE-3687.patch, LUCENE-3687.patch
>
>
> LUCENE-3628 cut over norms to docvalues. This removes the long standing 
> limitation that norms are a single byte. Yet, we still need to expose this 
> functionality to Similarity to write / encode norms in a different format. 

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