[LUCENE-4033] Sort api problems

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Fix Version/s: 4.2, 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 05/May/12 20:49
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:16
• Resolved: 08/Feb/13 03:29

Description

I tried to sort on some various docvalues fields (just byte arrays), a few problems:

• Sort.TYPE.BYTES always throws an exception (its not in the switch?)
• only Sort.TYPE String,Float,Int actually honor 'useDocValues'. This is pretty screwy,
  why don't the others? at least we should throw an exception and don't try to uninvert something.

In general i dont like the useDocValues: I think this should be done another way...

Issue Links

• is part of: LUCENE-4547 DocValues field broken on large indexes
• is related to: LUCENE-3862 DocValues getInt() returns long, getFloat() returns double
• is related to: LUCENE-3192 SortField.INT / SortField.FLOAT inconsistency with DocValues