Hmm, that won't work since color is free-form. Is there a way to invoke (via fq) a user-defined function (hopefully defined as part of the fq syntax, but alternatively, written in Java) and have it applied to the resultset?
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@heliosearch.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:36 PM, White, Bill <bwh...@ptfs.com> wrote: > > Sorry, color is multivalued, so a given record might be both blue and > red. > > I don't want those to show up in the results. > > I think the only way currently (out of the box) is to enumerate the > other possible colors to exclude them. > > color:(red yellow green) -color:(blue cyan xxx) > > -Yonik > http://heliosearch.org - native code faceting, facet functions, > sub-facets, off-heap data > > > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:36 PM, White, Bill <bwh...@ptfs.com> wrote: > > > >> Not just that. I'm looking for things which match either red or yellow > or > >> green, but do NOT match ANY other color. I can probably drop the > >> requirement related to having no color. > >> > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@heliosearch.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:52 PM, White, Bill <bwh...@ptfs.com> wrote: > >>> > Hello, > >>> > > >>> > I've attempted to figure this out from reading the documentation but > >>> > without much luck. I looked for a comprehensive query syntax > >>> specification > >>> > (e.g., with BNF and a list of operator semantics) but I'm unable to > find > >>> > such a document (does such a thing exist? or is the syntax too much > of a > >>> > moving target?) > >>> > > >>> > I'm using 4.6.1, if that makes a difference, though upgrading is an > >>> option > >>> > if it necessary to make this work. > >>> > > >>> > I've got a multiValued field "color", which describes the colors of > >>> item in > >>> > the database. Items can have zero or more colors. What I want is > to be > >>> > able to filter out all hits that contain colors not within a > >>> constraining > >>> > list, i.e., something like > >>> > > >>> > NOT (color NOT IN ("red","yellow","green")). > >>> > > >>> > So the following would be passed by the filter: > >>> > (no value for 'color') > >>> > color: red > >>> > color: red, color: green > >>> > > >>> > whereas these would be excluded: > >>> > color: red, color: blue > >>> > color: magenta > >>> > >>> You're looking for things that either match red, yellow, or green, or > >>> have no color: > >>> > >>> color:(red yellow green) OR (*:* -color:*) > >>> > >>> -Yonik > >>> http://heliosearch.org - native code faceting, facet functions, > >>> sub-facets, off-heap data > >>> > >> > >> >
