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Erick Erickson commented on SOLR-5084:
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Ahhh, OK. Then Hoss says sorting, so no wonder I'm confused!
There's no reason one couldn't sort by a field of this type, right? Frankly
though, it seems kind of low-utility since there are probably only going to be
a few values in the common use-case, but I'd guess it's still a possibility...
> new field type - EnumField
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>
> Key: SOLR-5084
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5084
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Elran Dvir
> Attachments: enumsConfig.xml, schema_example.xml, Solr-5084.patch,
> Solr-5084.patch, Solr-5084.patch
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> We have encountered a use case in our system where we have a few fields
> (Severity. Risk etc) with a closed set of values, where the sort order for
> these values is pre-determined but not lexicographic (Critical is higher than
> High). Generically this is very close to how enums work.
> To implement, I have prototyped a new type of field: EnumField where the
> inputs are a closed predefined set of strings in a special configuration
> file (similar to currency.xml).
> The code is based on 4.2.1.
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