On 6/28/07, Jérôme Etévé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I have an index which I generated with clucene where there is a float field.
This float field is stored as a simple verbatim character string.
Then you should be able to use FloatField (normally of type "float" in
the schema).
The solr schema doc states that for such float fields:
<!-- numeric field types that store and index the text
value verbatim (and hence don't support range queries, since the
lexicographic ordering isn't equal to the numeric ordering) -->
And for sortable float fields:
<!-- Numeric field types that manipulate the value into
a string value that isn't human-readable in its internal form,
but with a lexicographic ordering the same as the numeric ordering,
so that range queries work correctly. -->
What does exactly means 'a string value that isn't human-readable in
its internal form' ?
Does that mean that such a field as to be indexed as a binary
representation of the number to allow the use of the sfloat type ?
It's munged binary into a string such that the lucene term ordering
(lexicographic) will match the numeric ordering.
-Yonik
