: There is a PayloadHelper class in Lucene that has decode/encode float and : int methods. Any ideas on how Payloads might be uniformly decoded into : something readable/debugable from the gui? I think bytes to String will give : enough of a clue to be helpful.
I've never really looked at PayloadHelper, but if i were tasked with trying to find a way to display in HTML an arbitrary byte[] that may or may not be a String, i would start by attempting a String conversion, if that succeds *and* all chars in the resulting String are "printable" ( ie: Character.isDefined(c) && ! Character.isISOCOntrol(c)) then display the first N chars (where N is some reasonable max size to display) ... if not, then just display the first N characters of the hex string representing the byte[]. It might be overkill, but the other possibility would be to add <payloadInspector> config option to <fieldType> ... it could be a class used solely for debugging purposes, and could be declared at arbitrary points in the <tokenfilter> chain (indicating that from this point on, this is how to display the payload) or completely outside of the <analyzer> when using standalone Analyzers (or when the payload structure is identicle for hte entire <tokenfilter> chain) -Hoss
