# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more # contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with # this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. # The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 # (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with # the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. =head1 NAME Lucy::Docs::Tutorial::FieldType - Specify per-field properties and behaviors. =head1 DESCRIPTION The Schema we used in the last chapter specifies three fields: my $type = Lucy::Plan::FullTextType->new( analyzer => $polyanalyzer, ); $schema->spec_field( name => 'title', type => $type ); $schema->spec_field( name => 'content', type => $type ); $schema->spec_field( name => 'url', type => $type ); Since they are all defined as "full text" fields, they are all searchable -- including the C field, a dubious choice. Some URLs contain meaningful information, but these don't, really: http://example.com/us_constitution/amend1.txt We may as well not bother indexing the URL content. To achieve that we need to assign the C field to a different FieldType. =head2 StringType Instead of FullTextType, we'll use a L, which doesn't use an Analyzer to break up text into individual fields. Furthermore, we'll mark this StringType as unindexed, so that its content won't be searchable at all. my $url_type = Lucy::Plan::StringType( indexed => 0 ); $schema->spec_field( name => 'url', type => $url_type ); To observe the change in behavior, try searching for C both before and after changing the Schema and re-indexing. =head2 Toggling 'stored' For a taste of other FieldType possibilities, try turning off C for one or more fields. my $content_type = Lucy::Plan::FullTextType->new( analyzer => $polyanalyzer, stored => 0, ); Turning off C for either C or C<url> mangles our results page, but since we're not displaying C<content>, turning it off for C<content> has no effect -- except on index size. =head2 Analyzers up next Analyzers play a crucial role in the behavior of FullTextType fields. In our next tutorial chapter, L<Lucy::Docs::Tutorial::Analysis>, we'll see how changing up the Analyzer changes search results.