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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-2308:
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But if fieldtype is an interface with get-only methods, then someone could make 
a Freezable implementation right?
Maybe the interface is good, because I dislike 'forcing' freezable too, just 
not as much as a dislike builder. 

so, i think the interface sounds good, and would still personally prefer if our 
'default' core implementation did not use freezable, and used the simpler ctor 
instead.

also I think we should be gearing the API so that most people can use the 
simpler fieldtypes (StringField/TextField etc) for 90% of lucene uses instead: 
I think we want using FieldType directly to be more expert usage (e.g. i should 
be able to do a typical body+title+metadata fields with these 
StringField/TextField etc and never deal with this stuff).

> Separately specify a field's type
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2308
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2308
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/index
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>              Labels: gsoc2011, lucene-gsoc-11, mentor
>             Fix For: 4.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-2308-10.patch, LUCENE-2308-11.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308-12.patch, LUCENE-2308-13.patch, LUCENE-2308-14.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308-15.patch, LUCENE-2308-16.patch, LUCENE-2308-17.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308-18.patch, LUCENE-2308-19.patch, LUCENE-2308-2.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308-20.patch, LUCENE-2308-21.patch, LUCENE-2308-3.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308-4.patch, LUCENE-2308-5.patch, LUCENE-2308-6.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308-7.patch, LUCENE-2308-8.patch, LUCENE-2308-9.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308-branch.patch, LUCENE-2308-final.patch, LUCENE-2308-ltc.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308-merge-1.patch, LUCENE-2308-merge-2.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308-merge-3.patch, LUCENE-2308.branchdiffs, 
> LUCENE-2308.branchdiffs.moved, LUCENE-2308.patch, LUCENE-2308.patch, 
> LUCENE-2308.patch, LUCENE-2308.patch, LUCENE-2308.patch
>
>
> This came up from dicussions on IRC.  I'm summarizing here...
> Today when you make a Field to add to a document you can set things
> index or not, stored or not, analyzed or not, details like omitTfAP,
> omitNorms, index term vectors (separately controlling
> offsets/positions), etc.
> I think we should factor these out into a new class (FieldType?).
> Then you could re-use this FieldType instance across multiple fields.
> The Field instance would still hold the actual value.
> We could then do per-field analyzers by adding a setAnalyzer on the
> FieldType, instead of the separate PerFieldAnalzyerWrapper (likewise
> for per-field codecs (with flex), where we now have
> PerFieldCodecWrapper).
> This would NOT be a schema!  It's just refactoring what we already
> specify today.  EG it's not serialized into the index.
> This has been discussed before, and I know Michael Busch opened a more
> ambitious (I think?) issue.  I think this is a good first baby step.  We could
> consider a hierarchy of FIeldType (NumericFieldType, etc.) but maybe hold
> off on that for starters...

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