Easier access to details from version field #62952
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:Search Foundations/Mapping
Index mappings, including merging and defining field types
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This is a follow up to #59773 in which we added support for a new field type for software versions.
During discussing the requirements for the new type some asks were made to be able to access common parts of the version string like the major, minor or patch version, whether the version is a pre-release or a release or wether a given stored value is valid under e.g. the SemVer naming conventions. This information would be useful in searches or aggregations e.g. for filtering out only "released" versions or hierarchically aggregating e.g. major, minor or patch versions.
While working on #59773 the following solutions were discusse:
However, none of the above ideas could be utimately aggreed on yet so we decided to postpone adding this extra functionality in the first version of the field type to re-discuss the goals and options which this issue is about.
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