Index time sorting was always an experimental feature ... it's free to change, be removed, be restricted, etc.
We should probably just keep it simple and require users to compile their sort needs into an indexed (as doc values) sort key. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le mar. 16 août 2016 à 22:21, Andres de la Peña <adelap...@stratio.com> a > écrit : > >> I think that autoserializable SortFields should be considerably easier to >> use, keeping the purpose of LUCENE-6766: to ease the usage of index >> sorting, thus not being an expert feature. >> > > I don't think a feature can be non-expert and allow to serialize custom > data in the index at the same time. Those are conflicting requirements. >