The data-config.xml file that I have for indexing database contents has nested
entity nodes within a document node, and each of the entities contains field
nodes. Lucene indexes consist of documents that contain fields. What about
entities? If you change the way entities are structured in a data-config.xml
file, in what way (if any) does it change how the contents are stored in the
index. When I created the entities I am using, and defined the fields in one of
the inner entities to be multivalued, I thought that the fields of that entity
type would be grouped logically somehow in the index, but then I remembered
that Lucene doesn't have a concept of sub-documents (that I know of), so each
of the field values will be added to a list, and the extent of the logical
grouping would be that the field values that were indexed together would be at
the same position in their respective lists. Am I understanding this right, or
do entities as defined in data-config.xml have some kind of representation in
the index like document and field do?
Thanks,
Mike
