I'm still likely to take a shot at this myself, assuming someone from GSOC doesn't whip up something first.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Michael McCandless (JIRA) <j...@apache.org>wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2308?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel] > > Michael McCandless updated LUCENE-2308: > --------------------------------------- > > Labels: gsoc2011 lucene-gsoc-11 (was: ) > > > Separately specify a field's type > > --------------------------------- > > > > Key: LUCENE-2308 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2308 > > Project: Lucene - Java > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Components: Index > > Reporter: Michael McCandless > > Labels: gsoc2011, lucene-gsoc-11 > > Fix For: 4.0 > > > > > > 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... > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Chris Male | Software Developer | JTeam BV.| www.jteam.nl
