[SOLR-1986] Allow users to define multiple subfield types in AbstractSubTypeFieldType

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Schema and Analysis
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mark Allan
• Created: 05/Jul/10 11:24
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29

Description

A few small changes to the AbstractSubTypeFieldType class to allow users to define distinct field types for each subfield. This enables us to define complex data types in the schema.

For example, we have our own subclass of the CoordinateFieldType called TemporalCoverage where we store a start and end date for an event but now we can store a name for the event as well.

<fieldType name="temporal" class="uk.ac.edina.solr.schema.TemporalCoverage" dimension="3" subFieldSuffix="_ti,_ti,_s"/>

In this example, the start and end dates get stored as trie-coded integer subfields and the description as a string subfield.

Issue Links

• depends upon: SOLR-1131 Allow a single field type to index multiple fields