I'm trying to sort a query's results by a field that contains a date value, but I'm getting OverflowExceptions. Here's an example stack trace
System.OverflowException : Value was either too large or too small for an Int32. at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info) at System.Int32.Parse(String s) at Lucene.Net.Search.FieldCacheImpl.AnonymousClassIntParser.ParseInt(String value_Renamed) at Lucene.Net.Search.FieldCacheImpl.GetInts(IndexReader reader, String field, IntParser parser) at Lucene.Net.Search.FieldCacheImpl.GetInts(IndexReader reader, String field) at Lucene.Net.Search.FieldCacheImpl.GetAuto (IndexReader reader, String field) at Lucene.Net.Search.FieldSortedHitQueue.ComparatorAuto(IndexReader reader, String fieldname) at Lucene.Net.Search.FieldSortedHitQueue.GetCachedComparator(IndexReader reader, String fieldname, Int32 type, CultureInfo locale, SortComparatorSource factory) at Lucene.Net.Search.FieldSortedHitQueue..ctor(IndexReader reader, SortField[] fields, Int32 size) at Lucene.Net.Search.IndexSearcher.Search(Weight weight, Filter filter, Int32 nDocs, Sort sort) at Lucene.Net.Search.Hits.GetMoreDocs (Int32 min) at Lucene.Net.Search.Hits..ctor(Searcher s, Query q, Filter f, Sort o) at Lucene.Net.Search.Searcher.Search(Query query, Sort sort) The date field is stored as a string and is constructed using: DateTools.DateToString(time, DateTools.Resolution.SECOND);, where time is a System.DateTime. Am I doing something wrong, or is a workaround for this aside from sorting myself? thanks, bill
