Hi,
I just noticed that Ferret seems to convert every field to a string
[ruby code appended for those interested], which has thwarted my attempt
to format Dates (to “dd/mm/yyyy”) and Floats (to “n.nn”) for consumption
further down the line based on the class of the field stored.
I considered pre-formatting Dates and Floats prior to indexing, which
would store the field exactly as I need for presentation purposes,
however I would lose sorting and range searching.
I’m wondering what approaches people are using to manage formatting post
retrieve from Ferret.
Any pointers appreciated,
Kind Regards
Neville
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘ferret’
require ‘date’
p Ferret::VERSION
@dir = Ferret::Store::RAMDirectory.new
@index = Ferret::Index::Index.new(:dir => @dir)
invoice = {:invoice_date => Date.new(2006,9,20), :invoice_value =>
44.50, :invoice_no => 45656, :invoice_to => ‘Nev’}
@index << invoice
doc = @index[0].load
doc.fields.each do |f|
p f
p doc[f].class
p doc[f]
end
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ruby test_format.rb
“0.10.6”
:invoice_date
String
“2006-09-20”
:invoice_value
String
“44.5”
:invoice_no
String
“45656”
:invoice_to
String
“Nev”
