---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kenf_nc <ken.fos...@realestate.com> Date: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:49 AM Subject: Any contribs available for Range field type? To: solr-u...@lucene.apache.org
I have a huge need for a new field type. It would be a Poly field, similar to Point or Payload. It would take 2 data elements and a search would return a hit if the search term fell within the range of the elements. For example let's say I have a document representing an Employment record. I may want to create a field for years_of_service where it would take values 1999,2004. Then in a query q=years_of_service:2001 would be a hit, q=years_of_service:2010 would not. The field would need to take a data type attribute as a parameter. I may need to do integer ranges, float/double ranges, date ranges. I don't see the need now, but heck maybe even a string range. This would be useful for things like Event dates. An event often occurs between several days (or hours) but the query is something like "what events are happening today". If I did q=event_date:NOW (or similar) it should hit all documents where event_date has a range that in inclusive of today. Another example would be product category document. A specific automobile may have a fixed price, but a category of auto (2010 BMW 3-series for example) would have a price range. I hope you get the point. My question (finally) is, does anyone know of an existing contribution to the public domain that already does this? I'm more of a .Net/C# developer than a Java developer. I know my way around Java, but don't really have the right tools to build/test/etc. So was hoping to borrow rather than build if I could. Thanks, Ken -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Any-contribs-available-for-Range-field-type-tp2473601p2473601.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
