: Field-Type: org.apache.solr.schema.TextField
        ...
: 
DocTermsIndexDocValues<http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.apache.lucene/lucene-queries/4.3.0/org/apache/lucene/queries/function/docvalues/DocTermsIndexDocValues.java#DocTermsIndexDocValues>.
: Calling "getVal()" on a DocTermsIndexDocValues does some really weird stuff
: that I really don't understand.

Your TextField is being analyzed in some way you haven't clarified, and 
the DocTermsIndexDocValues you get contains the details of each term in 
that TextField

: Its possible I'm going about this wrong and need to re-do my approach. I'm
: just currently at a loss for what that approach is.

Based on your initial goal, you are most certainly going about this in a 
much more complicated way then you need to...

: > > > My goal is to be able to implement a custom sorting technique.

: > > > Example: <str name="resname">/some
: > > > example/data/here/2013/09/12/testing.text</str>
: > > >
: > > > I would like to do a custom sort based on this resname field.
: > > > Basically, I would like to parse out that date there (2013/09/12) and
: > > sort
: > > > on that date.

You are going to be *MUCH* happier (both in terms of effort, and in terms 
of performance) if instead of writing a custom function to parse strings 
at query time when sorting, you implement the parsing logic when indexing 
the doc and index it up front as a date field that you can sort on.

I would suggest something like CloneFieldUpdateProcessorFactory + 
RegexReplaceProcessorFactory could save you the work of needing to 
implement any custom logic -- but as Jack pointed out in SOLR-4864 it 
doesn't currently allow you to do capture group replacements (but maybe 
you could contribute a patch to fix that instead of needing to write 
completely custom code for yourself)

Of maybe, as is, you could use RegexReplaceProcessorFactory to throw away 
non digits - and then use ParseDateFieldUpdateProcessorFactory to get what 
you want?  (I'm not certain - i haven't played with 
ParseDateFieldUpdateProcessorFactory much)

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4864
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_5_0/solr-core/org/apache/solr/update/processor/RegexReplaceProcessorFactory.html
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_5_0/solr-core/org/apache/solr/update/processor/CloneFieldUpdateProcessorFactory.html
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_5_0/solr-core/org/apache/solr/update/processor/ParseDateFieldUpdateProcessorFactory.html



-Hoss

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