Solr provides semantics on Lucene fields for handling other data types, and there are some tools (DateTools, NumberTools) for converting some types to Strings for searching. But yeah, Strings are pretty much the only thing Lucene cares about when it comes to searching.

-Grant

On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:24 AM, Heba Farouk wrote:

Hello,



I would like to ask how lucene handles different datatypes, or "String"
is the only available datatype.



Best regards,



Heba Farouk

Software Engineer

Bibliotheca Alexandrina



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