Separately specify a field's type
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Key: LUCENE-2308
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2308
Project: Lucene - Java
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Index
Reporter: Michael McCandless
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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