[BLUR-112] Allow for types to be set on blur tables

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2.0, 0.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aaron McCurry
• Created: 29/May/13 00:22
• Updated: 12/Aug/13 18:14
• Resolved: 12/Aug/13 18:14

Description

Create the ability for Blur to handle the default Lucene field types. This should not be tied to the table descriptor because types should be allowed to be added at runtime. Also 2 new fields should be added to the TableDescriptor:

1. A strict types attribute. If set to true, if a new column is added to the table and there is no type mapping for it. Throw an exception. Set to false by default.

2. Default type is strict is set to false. The default type should be text.

Also, dynamic columns could be allowed if their name included the type. Such as:

The column name could be "col1" with a type of "int", in the Column struct in thrift the name would be "col1/int" and if the type did not exist before the call it would be added.

Thoughts?

Sub-Tasks

• Modify Blur to use new FieldTypes in Lucene 4: Closed
• Allow columns to be added dynamically: Closed
• Propagate changes made to zookeeper back to the shard servers: Closed