AbstractField

Returns length of byte[] segment that is used as value, if Field is not binary returned value is undefined

Returns offset into byte[] segment that is used as value, if Field is not binary returned value is undefined

Return the raw byte[] for the binary field. Note that you must also call getBinaryLength() and getBinaryOffset() to know which range of bytes in this returned array belong to the field.

About reuse: if you pass in the result byte[] and it is used, likely the underlying implementation will hold onto this byte[] and return it in future calls to getBinaryValue(). So if you subsequently re-use the same byte[] elsewhere it will alter this Fieldable's value.

Return the raw byte[] for the binary field. Note that you must also call getBinaryLength() and getBinaryOffset() to know which range of bytes in this returned array belong to the field.

Returns the boost factor for hits for this field.

The default value is 1.0.

Note: this value is not stored directly with the document in the index. Documents returned from document(int) and doc(int) may thus not have the same value present as when this field was indexed.

True if norms are omitted for this indexed field

True iff the value of the filed is stored as binary

True iff the value of the field is to be indexed, so that it may be searched on.

Indicates whether a Field is Lazy or not. The semantics of Lazy loading are such that if a Field is lazily loaded, retrieving it's values via stringValue() or getBinaryValue() is only valid as long as the IndexReader that retrieved the Document is still open.

True iff terms are stored as term vector together with their offsets (start and end position in source text).

True iff terms are stored as term vector together with their token positions.

True iff the value of the field is to be stored in the index for return with search hits. It is an error for this to be true if a field is Reader-valued.

True iff the term or terms used to index this field are stored as a term vector, available from getTermFreqVector(int, String). These methods do not provide access to the original content of the field, only to terms used to index it. If the original content must be preserved, use the stored attribute instead.

True iff the value of the field should be tokenized as text prior to indexing. Un-tokenized fields are indexed as a single word and may not be Reader-valued.

Returns the name of the field as an interned string. For example "date", "title", "body", ...

Sets the boost factor hits on this field. This value will be multiplied into the score of all hits on this this field of this document.

The boost is multiplied by getBoost() of the document containing this field. If a document has multiple fields with the same name, all such values are multiplied together. This product is then used to compute the norm factor for the field. By default, in the computeNorm(String, FieldInvertState) method, the boost value is multipled by the lengthNorm(String, int) and then rounded by encodeNorm(float) before it is stored in the index. One should attempt to ensure that this product does not overflow the range of that encoding.

Expert: If set, omit normalization factors associated with this indexed field. This effectively disables indexing boosts and length normalization for this field.

Expert: If set, omit term freq, positions and payloads from postings for this field.

NOTE: While this option reduces storage space required in the index, it also means any query requiring positional information, such as PhraseQuery or SpanQuery subclasses will silently fail to find results.

Prints a Field for human consumption.