IndexSchema.getDefaultSearchFieldName

[Grant Ingersoll]

I'm looking at IndexSchema and want to get the name of the default  
search field name, so I take a look at  
IndexSchema.getDefaultSearchFieldName() and the javadocs deprecation  
says:

@deprecated use getSolrQueryParser().getField()     //which should  
really be getSolrQueryParser(null).getField()

Then, when I look at the IndexSchema.getSolrQueryParser(), it takes in  
the name of the default field, or null if you want the one from the  
schema.

Then, in looking at the constructor used for the SolrQueryParser, it  
then does:

super(defaultField == null ? schema.getDefaultSearchFieldName() :  
defaultField, schema.getQueryAnalyzer());

In other words, it turns around and calls the very method that was  
deprecated to begin with.  I don't quite understand why we would  
deprecate something, add new functionality to supposedly replace it  
and then have it use the functionality that we just deprecated?

This was changed on rev 510689.  Mostly just wondering what the intent  
is for the <defaultSearchField> tag.  Are we planning on getting rid  
of it?

Thanks,
Grant