[SOLR-4517] make FieldType.properties protected

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.2
• Component/s: Schema and Analysis
• Assignee: Robert Muir
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 01/Mar/13 03:05
• Updated: 09/May/17 20:44
• Resolved: 09/May/17 20:44

Description

Currently its not possible to make a fieldtype plugin via the normal lib/ mechanism that hides field type impl details (e.g. you just want a no-arg IDFieldType).

This is because you cant do sheisty package-private stuff in a different classloader without extra sheisty reflection.

So I think pkg-private access is not very good for things intended to be plugins, you can only make a custom war...