You'll note that the "name" of the field in schema.xml is "string" and the class is solr.StrField.
Easy to get confused when you're writing something up quickly... in a sense the "string" field IS a solr.StrField ... but I could be wrong of course. <fieldType name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true" /> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:14 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > I'm assuming it's another "class" or data type that someone built - but > I'm afraid I don't know any more than that. > > An alternative possibility (supported by at least one of the links on that > page you linked) is that it's just a typo -- people typing quickly and > forgetting the exact (truncated) spelling of the field. > > In that case, it's talking about using it for faceting and IIRC, you want > a non-analyzed field for that - preserve it exactly as it is for facet > queries -- that suggests to me that the author actually meant StrField > > <begin quote> > > I might want to index the same data differently in three different fields > (perhaps using the Solr copyField > <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml#Copy_Fields> directive): > > - For searching: Tokenized, case-folded, punctuation-stripped: > - schildt / herbert / wolpert / lewis / davies / p > - For sorting: Untokenized, case-folded, punctuation-stripped: > - schildt herbert wolpert lewis davies p > - > > For faceting: Primary author only, using a solr.StringField: > - Schildt, Herbert > > Then when the user drills down on the "Schildt, Herbert" string I would > reissue the query with an added fq=author:"Schild, Herbert" parameter. > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Steven White <swhite4...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks John. >> >> Yes, the out-of-the-box schema.xml does not have solr.StringField. >> However, a number of Solr pages on the web mention solr.StringField [1] >> and >> thus I'm not sure if that's a typo, a real thing and such it is missing >> from the official Solr wiki's. >> >> Steve >> >> [1] https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrFacetingOverview, >> >> http://grokbase.com/t/lucene/solr-commits/06cw5038rk/solr-wiki-update-of-solrfacetingoverview-by-jjlarrea >> , >> >> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:35 PM, John Bickerstaff < >> j...@johnbickerstaff.com> >> wrote: >> >> > My default schema.xml does not have an entry for solr.StringField so I >> > can't tell you what that one does. >> > >> > If you look for solr.StrField in the schema.xml file, you'll get some >> idea >> > of how it's defined. The default setting is for it not to be analyzed. >> > >> > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Steven White <swhite4...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Hi Everyone, >> > > >> > > Is solr.StrField and solr.StringField the same thing? >> > > >> > > Thanks in advanced! >> > > >> > > Steve >> > > >> > >> > >
