Re: [hibernate-dev] @Spatials
On Jun 4, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
I don't think it can be SpatialValue as the annotations:
- marks the property describing the spatial coordinates
- describes how the data will be indexed wrt spatial indexing (strategy + fine tuning)
- describes the usual boost, etc properties
I don't see a contradiction between these points and @SpatialValue (at least w/ my
current
understanding of the feature)
It's the sister of @Field but @SpatialField is wrong as we are
not storing data in one field but several.
Hmm, I would like the symmetry between @Field, @NumericField and @SpatialField. is it
really a concern
that we are storing data into multiple fields. I don't think there is an expectation
for a one to one mapping
between @Field and the Lucene index. Using a custom field bridge any user can for example
index a single
property into multiple Document fields.
From this perspective @SpatialField just implies a special field
bridge which creates multiple Document fields.
This would fit fine into my model on
how Search works.
--Hardy