Shai, was that irony or I am missing something big time?
I would like to spare BytesRef -> String conversion, not to introduce another
one back to BytesRef
Simply, for sorting, you do not need to do this byte[]->String conversion, byte
representation of the String is perfectly sortable…
On Mar 17, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Shai Erera <ser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can do new BytesRef(d1.get("fieldName")).
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> Shai
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> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:43 PM, eksdev <eks...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> is there any way to get ByteRef from a field originally stored as String?
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> I am playing with Sorter to implement StoredDocSorter, analogous to
> NumericDocValuesSorter. But realised I do not need ByteRef - > String
> conversion just to compare fields (byte order would be as good for sorting)
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> StoredDocument d1 = reader.document(docID1, fieldNamesSet);
> String value1 = d1.get("fieldName")
> String value1 = d1.getStringAsBytesValue("fieldName")// would love to have it
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> I need String type in other places, so indexing as byte[] would be too much
> hassle.
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> String is internally stored as byte[], no reason not to expose it for
> StoredField (or any other type)?
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