On 10 August 2015 at 12:16, Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> wrote: >> With these new types,backwards compatibility is a non-issue. So unless >> someone makes a strong case for needing these as String in the index, >> what about we drop some complexity? > > ElasticSearch uses Strings for transferring dates in JSON structures > (see > https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-date-format.html). > So for that backend we'll need String-mapping field bridges (and we'd > even have to ignore/override/flag as error the user's setting for > numeric mapping).
Ok that sounds like another good reason to not provide a user option to choose the encoding type, and we'll make appropriate choices. Sanne _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
