# Payload support in ferret

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payload-support-in-ferret/123673>\
**Category:** Ferret\
**Created:** [December 19, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payload-support-in-ferret/123673 "2007-12-19T17:11:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anand\_Rajaram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anand\_Rajaram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Anand_Rajaram)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payload-support-in-ferret/123673/1 "2007-12-19T17:11:28Z")

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Hello All:  
This is potentially a ferret and ruby newbie question. I RTFM-ed (the  
oreilly shortcut anyway) and didnt find anything obvious.

Are there plans for Ferret to support the notion of “payloads”  
introduced in  
Lucene 2.2. Payloads are basically arbitrary metadata that can be stored  
for  
each term. For example, for each term I can store, say, font information  
for  
the term. ( [[LUCENE-755] Payloads - ASF JIRA](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-755) ).

Does ferret already support something like this? Are there plans in the  
pipeline?

Thanks so much!

Anand

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**Author:** ![Anand\_Rajaram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anand\_Rajaram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Anand_Rajaram)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/payload-support-in-ferret/123673/2 "2007-12-27T23:38:00Z")

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Hey …

On 2007-12-19, at 17:10, Anand Rajaram wrote:

> Does ferret already support something like this? Are there plans in  
> the pipeline?

don’t count on any new feature for ferret in the next month … so no,  
i don’t think so.

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Benjamin K.

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