[SOLR-6826] fieldType capitalization is not consistent with the rest of case-sensitive field names

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.0
• Component/s: Schema and Analysis
• Labels: beginners usability
• Assignee: Erick Erickson
• Reporter: Alexandre Rafalovitch
• Created: 07/Dec/14 02:23
• Updated: 03/Jul/18 00:43
• Resolved: 14/Dec/14 00:27

Description

For legacy reasons, both fieldtype and fieldType are acceptable in schema.xml. However, XML is case sensitive and this causes confusion when people see both fieldtype and fieldType used in official examples.

This causes them to assume that maybe our particular XML is not case sensitive and then they mis-case other elements, such as dynamicField, which are then silently ignored.