[hibernate-dev] HSEARCH Java 8 Date Time

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 10 August 2015 at 12:16, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> With these new types,backwards compatibility is a non-issue. So unless
>> someone makes a strong case for needing these as String in the index,
>> what about we drop some complexity?
>
> ElasticSearch uses Strings for transferring dates in JSON structures
> (see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-date-format.html).
> So for that backend we'll need String-mapping field bridges (and we'd
> even have to ignore/override/flag as error the user's setting for
> numeric mapping).

Ok that sounds like another good reason to not provide a user option
to choose the encoding type, and we'll make appropriate choices.

Sanne