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Posted to java-user@lucene.apache.org by Alan Chandler <al...@chandlerfamily.org.uk> on 2005/12/06 10:35:41 UTC

Getting Dates Back out of lucene

I added a date field to a document with 

doc.add(Field.keyword("A Date",myDate));

How do I get it back out again as a date?

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Re: Getting Dates Back out of lucene

Posted by Alan Chandler <al...@chandlerfamily.org.uk>.
On Tuesday 06 Dec 2005 10:10, Miles Barr wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:35 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > I added a date field to a document with
> >
> > doc.add(Field.keyword("A Date",myDate));
> >
> > How do I get it back out again as a date?
>
> You should be able to use the
> org.apache.lucene.document.DateField#stringToDate(String) method.

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.  

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Re: Getting Dates Back out of lucene

Posted by Miles Barr <mi...@runtime-collective.com>.
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:35 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I added a date field to a document with 
> 
> doc.add(Field.keyword("A Date",myDate));
> 
> How do I get it back out again as a date?

You should be able to use the
org.apache.lucene.document.DateField#stringToDate(String) method.



Miles




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