Re: Indexing a binary field

[Mark Hanfland <ma...@yahoo.com.INVALID>]

You are correct that Lucene only works with text (no binary or primitives), Base64 would be the way I would suggest. 


     On Monday, August 31, 2015 11:19 AM, Dan Smith <ds...@pivotal.io> wrote:
   

 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 better way?

-Dan


   

Re: Indexing a binary field

[Michael McCandless <lu...@mikemccandless.com>]

Actually Lucene terms can be arbitrary/fully binary tokens in the
low-level postings APIs.

It's just that our analysis APIs are geared towards analyzing text,
but using StringField you can easily index an arbitrary single-token
byte[].

Mike McCandless

http://blog.mikemccandless.com


On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Mark Hanfland
<ma...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> You are correct that Lucene only works with text (no binary or primitives), Base64 would be the way I would suggest.
>
>
>      On Monday, August 31, 2015 11:19 AM, Dan Smith <ds...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>
>
>  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 better way?
>
> -Dan
>
>
>

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