I have a need to build custom field types that store additional metadata at the field level in a payload. I was thinking that I could satisfy this by building a custom UpdateRequest that captured this additional information in XML, but I am not really sure how to get at this additional information on the server side. Would I need to implement a custom RequestHandler to handle the update, could I add a custom ContentStreamLoader to parse the XML, how do I customize the creation of the lucene document once I have the XML? Any help/direction would really be appreciated.
-Jamie
