Michael wrote:
I originally had a request from developers to allow substr searches
on the
"drawId" integer attribute you see below. As you know, substr searches on
integers are not supported so I changed the schema and modified the
attribute type to a numeric string. This worked as expected but now they
are coming back to me asking why negative numbers are not being matched in
their search filters. After some reading I understand the numeric string
syntax is used to hold strings comprised of one or more ASCII numeric
digits digits and/or space characters. The hyphen is not allowed, so it is
not possible to represent negative values. Is there any alternative here?
Your analysis is correct and the developers have to choose the syntax based on
the matching they need. They cannot have everything at once.
Also SUBSTR matching for Integers are most times a nasty work-around for
interval checking. So they rather might need an ORDERING matching rule.
Ciao, Michael.