[12:26 PM] Yoann Rodière: What I was suggesting yesterday was, we could take advantage of that and, for Dates, use a bridge that converts them to an Instant. That would spare us all the (rather verbose) task of implementing support for Date in the backend, and we will have to implement support for Instant at some point anyway.
[12:28 PM] Yoann Rodière: essentially it works like that: entity ---[mapper]---> property value ----[bridge]---> value to index ----[indexManager]---> backend-specific value (Json or Lucene Field)
Yes. Instead of this:

entity ---[mapper]---> Date ----[bridge]---> Date ----[indexManager]---> backend-specific value (Json or Lucene Field)
entity ---[mapper]---> Instant ----[bridge]---> Instant ----[indexManager]---> backend-specific value (Json or Lucene Field)

We will have this:

entity ---[mapper]---> Date ----[bridge]---> Instant ----[indexManager]---> backend-specific value (Json or Lucene Field)
entity ---[mapper]---> Instant ----[bridge]---> Instant ----[indexManager]---> backend-specific value (Json or Lucene Field)