On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 16:17, Dmitry Serebrennikov wrote: > > How about adding binary fields capability to Lucene stored fields? This > could be fun and useful, especially if there is a need for this for the > project you are directly working on. > > Myself and Doug have discussed this last week or so on this list, but I > haven't had time to do it and not sure when I might. It should be a > pretty well contained project. The proposed API can be > found in the messages from last week. I think we came up with a > pretty clean solution that would be relatively easy to add to Lucene, > and that will have little or no effect on the existing applications, and > could enable new types of applications, such as encryption and > compression of fields. At some point, perhaps even an index-wide > compression system, akin to a zip file. >
Dmitry, I send out a patch for this soon after the original discussion (see url below). Was this what you'd had in mind or did I miss the point entirely? I'd appreciate any suggestions for improving it. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lucene-dev&m=108465865425455&w=2 Thanks, Drew. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
