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Simon Willnauer commented on LUCENE-3862:
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I should have been more specific. The reason why I did it that way is that you
always have to explicitly downcast if you are sure you are not loosing any
precision. If you offer a getShort somebody could accidentally downcast its 64
bit values into a 16 bit values without realizing. However, if it allows us to
make similarities generic we need to rething that maybe.
I kind of like the semantics we have right now ie. you get full 64 bit values
no matter what you have encoded.
> DocValues getInt() returns long, getFloat() returns double
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> Key: LUCENE-3862
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3862
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 4.0
> Reporter: Robert Muir
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> I think this is a bit confusing: especially for the case of something like
> norms
> where its really an 8 bit byte, a long is confusing.
> i think we should have the usual getFloat/getDouble/getInt/getShort/getByte
> instead?
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