I mainly want to avoid having to deploy a new solr .war where a schema change would have been sufficient. Do you look up the field type name and trigger on that or do you use the field name directly? I guess I could trigger on suffix in the field type name...
Karsten Mike Klaas wrote: > > On 3-Mar-08, at 4:59 PM, Karsten Sperling wrote: > >> Is there any work going on or planned on a Similarity sub-class that >> allows the lenghtNorm() behaviour to be changed via schema.xml on a >> field-by-field basis? >> >> At the moment I'm really only after omitting length norms for certain >> fields, but using a custom similarity that checks for hard coded field >> names seems like a rather inflexible kludge. >> >> Ideally the lengthNorm() call would be delegated to the FieldType >> instance of the field in question where a specific behaviour could be >> plugged in by specifying the class to use (similar to analyzer and >> tokenizer). >> >> Any comments on what others have done in this direction would be >> appreciated. > > I'm using this "kludge". I only have 3-4 distinct field type classes, > so it doesn't feel too bad. > > -Mike
