Aha! My version of Lucene was out of date. That should work perfectly. Thanks, -Dan
-------- Original message -------- From: Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> Date:08/31/2015 12:57 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Lucene Users <java-user@lucene.apache.org>, dsm...@pivotal.io Cc: Subject: Re: Indexing a binary field StringField now also takes a BytesRef value to index, so you can index a single binary token that way. Does that work? Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Dan Smith <dsm...@pivotal.io> wrote: > What's the best way to index binary data in Lucene? I'm adding a Lucene > index to a key value store, and I want to be able to delete documents based > on a binary key. > > As far as I can tell the Lucene API does not support indexing binary data, > and I was looking into Base64 encoding the key. Is there a better way? > > -Dan