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Hoss Man commented on SOLR-2724:
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David: looking back at the mailing list ~ 28/Mar/12 it's not clear what exactly
was the problem that required reverting at the time ... where the test failures
even caused by this specific issue, or something else that you committed right
around the same time?
Given that we've already created the 4x branch and started pushing towards
Alpha, i would at least move forward with making sure trunk & 4x are on parity
with 3.6 in terms of the changes to the example and the log/error messages.
Depending on what the issue was with the tests we can figure out how we want to
move forward from there.
bq. I take issue with the Yonik's comment "we're not really gaining anything
with this change". ... I don't think defaultSearchField & defaultOperator have
a need to exist, let alone exist in schema.xml, thereby creating unnecessary
complexity in understanding the product – albeit in a small way.
I think the question is "if we stop promoting them in the example, and start
encouraging an alternative instead, what is gained by actually removing the
support in the code for existing users who already have them in the config and
upgrade?"
It's one thing to say in CHANGES.txt "we've removed feature X because doing so
allowed us (add feature|fix bug) Y, so if you used X in the past now you have
to use Z instead" but there is no "Y" in this case (that i see) ... we're just
telling people "we've removed X because we think Z is better, so if you used X
in the past now you have to use Z instead".
You may feel it's a complexity for new users to understand why these things are
in schema.xml -- which is fine, but isn't removing from the example schema.xml
enough to addresses? What is the value gained in removing the ability to use
it for existing users who already understand it? This is the crux of my
suggestion way, way, WAY back in this issue about why i didn't/don't think
there was a strong motivation to remove support completely in 4x - an opinion
echoed by Yonik & Erick.
As evidence from recent mailing list comments by folks like Bernd & Rohit,
there is already clearly confusion for existing users just by removing these
from the example -- let alone removing support for it from the code.
> Deprecate defaultSearchField and defaultOperator defined in schema.xml
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>
> Key: SOLR-2724
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2724
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Schema and Analysis, search
> Reporter: David Smiley
> Assignee: David Smiley
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.6, 4.0
>
> Attachments:
> SOLR-2724_deprecateDefaultSearchField_and_defaultOperator.patch
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> Original Estimate: 2h
> Remaining Estimate: 2h
>
> I've always been surprised to see the <defaultSearchField> element and
> <solrQueryParser defaultOperator="OR"/> defined in the schema.xml file since
> the first time I saw them. They just seem out of place to me since they are
> more query parser related than schema related. But not only are they
> misplaced, I feel they shouldn't exist. For query parsers, we already have a
> "df" parameter that works just fine, and explicit field references. And the
> default lucene query operator should stay at OR -- if a particular query
> wants different behavior then use q.op or simply use "OR".
> <similarity> Seems like something better placed in solrconfig.xml than in the
> schema.
> In my opinion, defaultSearchField and defaultOperator configuration elements
> should be deprecated in Solr 3.x and removed in Solr 4. And <similarity>
> should move to solrconfig.xml. I am willing to do it, provided there is
> consensus on it of course.
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