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Jack Krupansky commented on LUCENE-4369:
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I would suggest "RawTextField". Or, "ExactTextField". Or,
"UnanalyzedTextField". I mean, text is text to an average user. Generally,
people should use TextField for text, but use StringField when they need the
"exact", "raw" text "as is" and without being tokenized or otherwise changed.
"KeywordTokenizer" is confusing since it really is "NoTokenizer" or
"ExactTextTokenizer" or "RawTextTokenizer".
Is there currently a wiki page that describes the distinction between "match"
and "search"? I would not expect an average user to know the distinction.
> StringFields name is unintuitive and not helpful
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> Key: LUCENE-4369
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4369
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Attachments: LUCENE-4369.patch
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> There's a huge difference between TextField and StringField, StringField
> screws up scoring and bypasses your Analyzer.
> (see java-user thread "Custom Analyzer Not Called When Indexing" as an
> example.)
> The name we use here is vital, otherwise people will get bad results.
> I think we should rename StringField to MatchOnlyField.
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