: My understanding is that DynamicField can do something like : FOO_BAR_TEXT_* but what I really need is *_TEXT_* as I might have : FOO_BAR_TEXT_1 but I also might have WIDGET_BAR_TEXT_2. Both of those : field names need to map to a field type of 'fullText'.
I'm pretty sure you can get what you are after with the new Manged Schema functionality... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Schemaless+Mode https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Managed+Schema+Definition+in+SolrConfig Assuming you have managed schema enabled in solrconfig.xml, and you define both of your fieldTypes using names like "text" and "select" then something like this should work in your processor chain... <processor class="solr.AddSchemaFieldsUpdateProcessorFactory"> <str name="fieldRegex">.*_TEXT_.*</str> <str name="defaultFieldType">text</str> </processor> <processor class="solr.AddSchemaFieldsUpdateProcessorFactory"> <str name="fieldRegex">.*_SELECT_.*</str> <str name="defaultFieldType">select</str> </processor> (Normally that processor is used once with multiple value->type mappings -- but in your case you don't care about the run-time value, just the run time field name regex (which should also be configurable according to the various FieldNameSelector rules... https://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_8_0/solr-core/org/apache/solr/update/processor/AddSchemaFieldsUpdateProcessorFactory.html https://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_8_0/solr-core/org/apache/solr/update/processor/FieldMutatingUpdateProcessorFactory.html -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
