On 7/8/2015 4:38 PM, Steven White wrote: > What good is the use of copyField in Solr's schema.xml if my application > can do it into the designated field? Having my application do so helps me > simplify the schema.xml maintains task thus my motivation.
I can think of two main uses for copyField. One is to combine the inputs for multiple fields into a "catchall" field, the other is to analyze the same input in multiple ways. For instance, you may want a field analyzed in one way for searching, but analyzed in a different way to use for facets. Your indexing application can indeed take care of that, but having Solr do it means that your indexing application doesn't need to worry about how the data is being used in search, it just has to get the information to Solr. There may be additional use cases, but those are the ones that came to me when I thought about it for a couple of minutes. Thanks, Shawn
