As discussed earlier, we are able to tell Solr how it should interpret the incoming data in a field and how we can query a field using the information specified in field types.
Before going to the definitions and properties, we will see what field analysis means.
What Solr should do or how it should interpret data whenever data is indexed is important. For example, a description of a book can contain lots of useless words: helping verbs such as is, was, and are; pronouns such as they, we, and so on; and other general words such as the, a, this, and so on. Querying these words will bring all the data. Similarly what should we do with words that have capital letters?
All of these problems can be catered using field analysis to ignore common words or casing while indexing or querying. We will dive deep into field analysis in the next chapter.
Now, coming back to field types, all analyses on a field are done by the field type, whether...
