[SOLR-2663] Refactor FieldTypePluginLoader out of IndexSchema

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Assignee: Chris M. Hostetter
• Reporter: Chris M. Hostetter
• Created: 18/Jul/11 19:51
• Updated: 10/May/13 10:40
• Resolved: 19/Jul/11 19:27

Description

I have a use case where i'd like to be able to programmaticly "test" if a (single) arbitrary FieldType configuration is valid, but this is currently impossibly because the code to parse/init FieldTypes is buried deep inside IndexSchema.readSchema using anonymous inner-subclasses of AbstractPluginLoader.

I'd like to refactor this out into a concrete public class. Regardless of my usecase, i think this is a good idea in general since it makes IndexSchema a lot easier to read/maintain and helps make it more obvious exactly what info is being used when initializing the FieldTypes+Analyzers