: I have a use case where I need to define my own datatype (Money). : Will something like this work? Are there any issues with this approach?
: <fieldType name="money" class="xyz.Money" omitNorms="true" /> Assuming you have implemented a Java class named "Money" in the package "xyz" and you are subclassing the FieldType class -- then yes. you can implment any sort of FieldType you want. YOu can even subclass something like the SortableFloatType to reuse a lot of the existing code if it's useful to you. But i'm not sure if that's what you are asking. You could also do something like this... <fieldType name="money" class="solr.SortableFloat" /> now you've got a fieldType called "money" that you can refer to in other fields in your schema, and you don't have to writ any java code -- assuming all you really care about is storing a floating point value. It really depends on what it is you mean by saying you want your own datatype. -Hoss
