[SOLR-2971] ExternalFileFields fail if valType='float', and valType should be optional

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.5, 4.0-ALPHA
• Fix Version/s: 3.6, 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: Schema and Analysis

Environment

all

• Assignee: Erick Erickson
• Reporter: Erick Erickson
• Created: 15/Dec/11 03:17
• Updated: 10/May/13 10:41
• Resolved: 17/Dec/11 14:54

Description

valType has never done anything except throw an error, the underlying ValueSource has always been a FileFloatSource. To add to the confusion, the documents say use "float", which throws an exception on Solr startup every since "float" was re-defined as a TrieFloatField. "pfloat" works currently though.

Since valType is never used for anything, we should make it optional until such a time as it is.

Additionally, TrieFloatField (valtype="float|tfloat") types should be OK as a field type along with FloatField(valType="pfloat")