: But Solr is (intentionally) stupid about dates, and
: requires the (almost) full date format. There are
I'm not sure how i feel about "intentionally stupid" ... but the
underlying sentiment is correct: Solr requires clients to be *VERY*
explicit about dates, because that way the client is in
Well, if Solr understood partial dates, how would you then know
whether the original was partial or not? It would all look the
same when you pulled it out...
But Solr is (intentionally) stupid about dates, and
requires the (almost) full date format. There are
a few zeros you can leave off, but not
Hello François,
thank you for your quick reply. I thought about just storing which information
I am lacking and this would be a possibility of course. It just seemed a bit
like quick&dirty to me and I wondered whether Solr really cannot understand
dates which only consist of the year. Isn't it
Erik
I would complement the date with default values as you suggest and store a
boolean flag indicating whether the date was complete or not, or store the
original date if it is not complete which would probably be better because the
presence of that data would tell you that the original date w
Hi all,
I want to index MEDLINE documents which not always contain complete dates of
publication. The year is known always. Now the Solr documentation states, dates
must have the format "1995-12-31T23:59:59Z" for which month, day and even the
time of the day must be known.
I could, of course, j
