I have a copy of the book. It tells you how to index as I noted, but not how to retrieve the date from search results. document.get("date") only returns Strings. How do I get it to return the Date object?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Clark, Senior Consultant Sybase Federal Professional Services 6550 Rock Spring Drive, Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20817 Office - (301) 896-1103 Office Fax - (301) 896-1604 Mobile - (703) 403-0340 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED] utions.com> To java-user@lucene.apache.org 11/17/2005 07:00 cc AM Subject Re: Date Indexing Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] apache.org On 17 Nov 2005, at 05:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I indexed dates using Field.Keyword(String,Date). The values seem > to be > encoded when I retrieve them via document.get("date"). Luke > confirmed it. > How do I decode the Date when retrieving from Document object? Or > does it > not work in version 1.4.3? Also, does Lucene only sort String values? What ya need is a brand new copy of Lucene in Action :) <http://www.lucenebook.com/search?query=date+convert> Look at the DateField utilities. Erik > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Daniel Clark, Senior Consultant > Sybase Federal Professional Services > 6550 Rock Spring Drive, Suite 800 > Bethesda, MD 20817 > Office - (301) 896-1103 > Office Fax - (301) 896-1604 > Mobile - (703) 403-0340 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]