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:card_index: Configurable indexing and other extras for Haystack (with ElasticSearch biases)
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Why can we not change the analyzer for edge_ngram and ngram fields? #11

Closed parasgithub closed 9 years ago

parasgithub commented 9 years ago

Why can we not change the analyzer for edge_ngram and ngram fields?

bennylope commented 9 years ago

There's not much point in changing the analyzer on those fields because those fields are already, and purposefully, analyzer specific in Haystack.

If you want to use a different analyzer to do similar work, I'd recommend just specifying a new field using ConfigurableFieldMixin.

The only time I can see this being a problem is if you have no control over what fields are used in the SearchIndex class(es). If that is indeed a problem I'd consider a pull request to resolve the issue (see the contribution doc).