Re: Indexing a binary field

2015-08-31 Thread Dan Smith
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 wrote: > What's the best way to index binary data in Lucene? I'm adding a Lucene > index to a

Indexing a binary field

2015-08-31 Thread Dan Smith
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