bq: Keep a copy of the value into a non-multi-valued field, using an update processor: This involves indexing a new field
Why can't you do this? You can't re-index the data perhaps? It's by far the easiest solution.... Best, Erick On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Fernando Agüero <fjagu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I’ve been reading answers around this problem but I wanted to make sure that > there is another way out of my problem. The thing is that the solution > shouldn’t be on index-time, involve indexing a new field or changing this > multi-valued field to a single-valued one. > > > Problem: > I need to run a custom function with some fields but I see that it’s not > possible to get the value (first value in this case) of a multivalued field. > “title” is a multi-valued field. > > > See: > if(exists(title),strdist(title, “string1"),0). > > > This throws the “can’t use FieldCache on a multivalued field” error. > > > Solutions that doesn’t work for me: > - Keep a copy of the value into a non-multi-valued field, using an update > processor: This involves indexing a new field. > > > - Change the field to multiValued=false: This involves using a single-valued > field. I will be indexing new data in the future and I need some fields to be > multi-valued but I also need to work with them. > > > Thanks in advance, I spent a lot of time with this without a solution. I’m > using Solr 4.10.
