: is it possible to store (text) payload to numeric fields (class : solr.TrieDoubleField)? My goal is to store measure units to numeric : features - e.g. '1.5 cm' - and to use faceted search with these fields. : But the field type doesn't allow analyzers to add the payload data. I : want to avoid database access to load the units. I'm using Solr 4.2 .
I'm not sure if it's possible to add payloads to Trie fields, but even if there is i don't think you really want that for your usecase -- i think it would make a lot more sense to normalize your units so you do consistent sorting, range queries, and faceting on the values regardless of wether it's 100cm or 1000mm or 1m. -Hoss
