Good idea about copyField. A workaround for your case could be to use an UpdateProcessor to merge the two fields into a point type.
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Training in Europe - www.solrtraining.com On 9. aug. 2010, at 01.51, Lance Norskog wrote: > Yup, agreed. A better way: > > <copyField> is implemented in o.a.s.schema.CopyField.java as a > one-off. Suppose <copyField> was instead a method on FieldType with > the semantics "copy from source field to me". PointType could supply > its own implementation. > > For PointType, the implementation would be: "copy these other fields > to me". Given > <copyField source="lat,lon" dest="location" /> > it would split the source string and combine the lat/lon fields into a > PointType. > > I have input data in separate lat/lon fields instead of one "lat,lon" > format and this "impedance mismatch" is a big pain in the neck. "There > are things you don't learn until you ship." > > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> > wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I have discovered something: if you declare a PointType the subfields >>> exist and are addressable. If you fill in the subfields directly they >>> appear in search results, but the parent Point does not. I did this >>> because my input data has lat/long as separate fields. I have not >>> tested spatial queries, filtering, etc. >>> >>> Is this an accepted (or anticipated) use case? Is it worth supporting >>> that we can fill in the parts of a compound type? >> >> I would generally discourage doing this since it makes assumptions >> about the underlying point type implementation and wouldn't work as >> you think for geohash or spatial tile fields. >> >> -Yonik >> http://www.lucidimagination.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > > > > -- > Lance Norskog > goks...@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
