Question

I’m storing json docs in riak search, for example:

{
  boolean: true,
  number: 1.234,
  string: "Gretchen"
} 

However, when querying for them (riak search), I notice the fields returned by the query are all strings:

{
  boolean: "true",
  number: "1.234",
  string: "Gretchen"
}

This makes the query results useless for binding to objects, unless I then sequentially retrieve each doc again via their key. Is this possible to get the correctly typed fields returned? E.g. Couch+lucene does this correctly and makes it very useful for querying + binding.

Answer 1

Sounds it’s not possible, you need to use map reduce for this. From Sean at Basho:

“What a search query returns to you is the “index document”, or the
result of transforming the input before adding it to the search
indexes; this also means that deeply nested fields will be flattened.
If you want the original, you can use MapReduce to retrieve the
documents resulting from a search query.”