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package org.apache.lucene.document;



Syntactic sugar for encoding floats as NumericDocValues via Float.floatToRawIntBits(float). 
 Per-document floating point values can be retrieved via LeafReader.getNumericDocValues(String). 

NOTE: In most all cases this will be rather inefficient,
requiring four bytes per document. Consider encoding floating
point values yourself with only as much precision as you require.

/**
 * Syntactic sugar for encoding floats as NumericDocValues
 * via {@link Float#floatToRawIntBits(float)}.
 * <p>
 * Per-document floating point values can be retrieved via
 * {@link org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReader#getNumericDocValues(String)}.
 * <p>
 * <b>NOTE</b>: In most all cases this will be rather inefficient,
 * requiring four bytes per document. Consider encoding floating
 * point values yourself with only as much precision as you require.
 */
public class FloatDocValuesField extends NumericDocValuesField {

  
Creates a new DocValues field with the specified 32-bit float value 

Params:
  • name – field name
  • value – 32-bit float value
Throws:
/** 
   * Creates a new DocValues field with the specified 32-bit float value 
   * @param name field name
   * @param value 32-bit float value
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the field name is null
   */
  public FloatDocValuesField(String name, float value) {
    super(name, Float.floatToRawIntBits(value));
  }

  @Override
  public void setFloatValue(float value) {
    super.setLongValue(Float.floatToRawIntBits(value));
  }
  
  @Override
  public void setLongValue(long value) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("cannot change value type from Float to Long");
  }
}