Re: How to extend IndexSchema and SchemaField

[Renaud Delbru <re...@deri.org>]

  Hi Chris,

I have opened an issue (SOLR-2146 [1]) following that discussion.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2146

cheers
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Renaud Delbru

On 14/09/10 01:06, Chris Hostetter wrote:
> : Yes, I have thought of that, or even extending field type. But this does not
> : work for my use case, since I can have multiple fields of a same type
> : (therefore with the same field type, and same analyzer), but each one of them
> : needs specific information. Therefore, I think the only "nice" way to achieve
> : this is to have the possibility to add attributes to any field definition.
>
> Right, at the moment custom FieldType classes can specify whatever
> attributes they want to use in the<fieldType />  declaration -- but it's
> not possible to specify arbitrary attributes that can be used in the
> <field />  declaration.
>
> By all means, pelase open an issue requesting this as a feature.
>
> I don't know that anyone explicitly set out to impose this limitation, but
> one of the reasons it likely exists is because SchemaField is not
> something that is intended to be customized -- while FieldType
> objects are constructed once at startup, SchemaField obejcts are
> frequently created on the fly when dealing with dynamicFields, so
> initialization complexity is kept to a minimum.
>
> That said -- this definitely seems like that type of usecase that we
> should try to find *some* solution for -- even if it just means having
> Solr automaticly create hidden FieldType instances for you on startup
> based on attributes specified in the<field />  that the corrisponding
> FieldType class understands.
>
>
> -Hoss
>
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