title: Solr Reverse WildCard & Field Association
body: <p>I have been using Solr for a while now, just strike me that I have  Reverse WildCard Filter declared but without any field being declared/associated to the type 'textReverse'&amp; no copy field to copy the values into either. Yet search with leading wildcards works !</p>
  
  <p>Wouldn't it be norm have the field type as 'textReverse' to enable leading wildcard searches ?</p>
  
  <p>Just by having this declaration works,</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;fieldType name="textReverse" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"&gt;
      &lt;analyzer type="index"&gt;
        &lt;tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/&gt;
        &lt;filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/&gt;
        &lt;filter class="solr.ReversedWildcardFilterFactory" withOriginal="true" maxPosAsterisk="3" maxPosQuestion="2" maxFractionAsterisk="0.33"/&gt;
      &lt;/analyzer&gt;
      &lt;analyzer type="query"&gt;
        &lt;tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/&gt;
        &lt;filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/&gt;
      &lt;/analyzer&gt;
  &lt;/fieldType&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>without having to actually declare a field of that type, for instance,</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;field name="fooColumn" type="textReverse" indexed="true" stored="true" omitNorms="true"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I do have 'fooColumn' as type 'text' ( field type without the reverse wildcard filter.. )</p>
  
  <p>is there a gap in understanding ?</p>