[SOLR-6797] Add score=degrees|kilometers|miles for AbstractSpatialFieldType

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0, 6.0
• Component/s: spatial
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: David Smiley
• Created: 26/Nov/14 14:45
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:54
• Resolved: 03/Jan/15 20:35

Description

Annoyingly, the units="degrees" attribute is required for fields extending AbstractSpatialFieldType (e.g. RPT, BBox). And it doesn't really have any effect. I propose the following:

• Simply drop the attribute; ignore it if someone sets it to "degrees" (for back-compat).
• When using score="distance", or score=area or area2D (as seen in BBoxField) then use kilometers if geo=true, otherwise degrees.
• Add support for score=degrees|kilometers|miles|degrees