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Greets,

I'm contemplating some mods to FieldSpec and Schema.

* Rename KinoSearch::Schema::FieldSpec to
KinoSearch::FieldSpec::text.
* Within the %fields hash, make 'text' an alias for
'KinoSearch::FieldSpec::text'.
* Reserve all-lower-case FieldSpec class names for future use.

The most immediated effect of this would be to cut down on typing:

# before
our %fields = (
foo => 'KinoSearch::Schema::FieldSpec',
bar => 'KinoSearch::Schema::FieldSpec',
);

# after
our %fields = (
foo => 'text',
bar => 'text',
);

There are two other reasons.

First, I intend to write a generic spec for the invindex file format,
and
the word "KinoSearch" shouldn't appear in it.

Second, it reserves space for the addition of 'float', 'blob',
'keyword', and so
on.

our %fields = (
foo => 'text',
bar => 'blob', # alias for KinoSearch::FieldSpec::blob
baz => 'text::unstored', # alias for
KinoSearch::FieldSpec::text::unstored
);

If KinoSearch::Schema::FieldSpec sticks around for now as a subclass/
alias of KinoSearch::FieldSpec::text, then this change doesn't have
to be immediately disruptive.

Thoughts?

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/



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