Have you thought storing 'availability' as a document instead of 'house'. So, the house, date range and price are a single document. Then, you group them, sum them and in post-filter sort them?
Some ideas may come from: http://www.slideshare.net/trenaman/personalized-search-on-the-largest-flash-sale-site-in-america (though it is quite old by now) Regards, Alex. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853 On 4 December 2014 at 05:54, Mathijs Corten <m.cor...@bedandbreakfast.eu> wrote: > Hello, > > *Usercase:* > At this moment we have the current situation : > We have customers that want to rent houses to visitors of our website. > Customers can vary the prices according to specific dates, so renting a > house at holidays will cost more. > > *The problems:* > - prices may vary according to the dates a visitor of the website > specified. > - we want SOLR to calculate this total price based on base_price and the > price_%DATE% dynamic fields > - we want SOLR to sort the result on this total price > - we want SOLR to return this price so we can display it on our website > > *Example:* > > house_id : 1 > base_price = 20 <- base price > price_20141225 = 50 <- dynamic field with price for a specified date > price_20141226 = 60 <- dynamic field with price for a specified date > > house_id : 2 > base_price = 30 <- base price > price_20141229 = 50 <- dynamic field with price for a specified date > > Lets say a customer wants to rent a house from 2014-12-25 till 2014-12-30, > the prices would be calculated at query time like this: > House 1: 50 + 60 + 20 + 20 + 20 > House 2: 30 + 30 + 30 + 30 + 50 > > *What **i already got:* > I did some researche and made my own SearchComponent, which had a few > problems: > - total price field that got added kept existing unless i removed it or > restarted SOLR <- a problem with multiple search queries at the same time > - i could not sort on the totalprice field, field seemed to be unknown. > > > *Now my question is:* > Do any of you have any suggestions on how to add a total price field (based > on base_price and dynamic fields), sort on it and return it to our website > during query time?
