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 My version of Lucene was out of date.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

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