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From: "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <chris.a.mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "solr-dev@lucene.apache.org" <solr-dev@lucene.apache.org>,
        "yonik@lucidimagination.com" <yonik@lucidimagination.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:33:26 -0800
Subject: Re: SOLR-1131 - Multiple Fields per Field Type
Thread-Topic: SOLR-1131 - Multiple Fields per Field Type
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Hey Hoss,=20

On 11/28/09 4:37 PM, "Chris Hostetter" <hossman_lucene@fucit.org> wrote:

> One thing that concerns me is potential field name collision -- where one
> of these new multifield producing FieldTypes might want to creat a name
> that happens to collide with a field the user has already declared.

Since FieldTypes are provided an instance of o.a.solr.schema.IndexScehma,
couldn't these special MultiFieldTypes just call #getFieldOrNull(fieldName)
to find out if an internal field they want to name is available in the
schema namespace?

Cheers,
Chris


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