/*
* Hibernate Search, full-text search for your domain model
*
* License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later
* See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
*/
package org.hibernate.search.bridge.spi;
/**
* The type of an indexed field.
*
* @author Gunnar Morling
* @hsearch.experimental This contract is currently under active development and may be altered in future releases,
* breaking existing users.
*/
public enum FieldType {
/**
* A String field.
*/
STRING,
/**
* A boolean field, mapped to the String "true" or "false" in Lucene.
*/
BOOLEAN,
/**
* A date, mapped to a long in Lucene, corresponding to the number of milliseconds from Epoch.
*/
DATE,
/**
* An integer field.
*/
INTEGER,
/**
* A long field.
*/
LONG,
/**
* A float field.
*/
FLOAT,
/**
* A double field.
*/
DOUBLE,
/**
* A composite object that will benefit from using a different encoding on each indexing technology.
* <p>
* For example, it could identify a field that should be mapped in Elasticsearch as an inner object and in Lucene
* as multiple string fields (Lucene does not have inner objects).
*/
OBJECT
}