On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote:
> There is actually one way to check if a field was indexed numerically: > you can seek to the first term in the field, and attempt to parse it > as a long/float/etc., and if that throws a NumberFormatException, it > was indexed numerically. > > Ie, numeric fields are indexed using the formats from > oal.util.NumericUtils, which will not parse as "normal" numbers. > > This is what Lucene's FieldCache does to check how to decode numeric > values when uninverting ... Very good info. Thank you, Mike. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
