[jira] [Commented] (LUCENE-7043) add BigIntegerPoint and InetAddressPoint to sandbox

["Michael McCandless (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-7043:
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+1, this looks wonderful!

> add BigIntegerPoint and InetAddressPoint to sandbox
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-7043
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7043
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>         Attachments: LUCENE-7043.patch, LUCENE-7043.patch
>
>
> We can now index 128-bit quantities, but still, making Fields for these is a bit of work: you have to do some numericutils sign-extension/sign-flipping magic for BigInteger quantities, deal with ipv4-mapped ipv6 addresses, etc.
> We can just provide some simple field types that also have static factory methods for exact match/ranges.
> The BigIntegerPoint is N-dimensional, so acts just like any other primitive, except its bigger (e.g. long long).
> InetAddressPoint is 1-dimensional by nature: of course you can have multiple values per field, thats different. Since we prefix-compress values, we can just map IPv4 addresses to IPv6 space and it works for both types. This is consistent with what InetAddress does itself anyway.



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