: What is the best way to get a float field value from docID? : I tried the following code but when it runs throws an exception For input : string: "` ??eI" at line float lat = Float.parseFloat(tlat);
the most most straight foward level of abstraction to use (if you want to leverage the field cache as you are trying to do here) is probably to get hte FieldType & SchemaField objects for your "latitude" field (from the IndexSchema) and then call FieldType.getValueSource. You can then ask the ValueSource for the value for any given doc in your DocIterator. that wa you don't have to worry about wether this is an IntField, or a TrieIntField, etc... -Hoss
