Hi,

I'm working on LUCENE-1219, which I think is a good improvement to the Field API for creating stored binary fields based on parts of a shared byte[].

I'm not really happy with the current patch because our hands are tied by the fact that we have Fieldable as an interface. I'd really like to move that to a base class, but...

Really, I think we could go just back to a single Field class instead of the three classes Fieldable, AbstractField and Field. If we had this then LUCENE-1219 would be easier to cleanly implement.

Here're some details:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1219? page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment- tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12578199#action_12578199

Is there some reason not to do this?

Mike