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On Sat, Aug 1, 2015, at 02:02 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> How soon? It's pretty much done AFAIK, but the folks trying to work on
> it have had their priorities re-arranged.
> 
> So I really don't have a date.
> 
> Erick
> 
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote:
> > How soon? And will you be able to use them for querying, or just
> > faceting/sorting/displaying?
> >
> > Thx!
> >
> > Upayavira
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015, at 09:27 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> >> And coming soon will be docvalues field updates that don't require
> >> reindexing the whole doc.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Erick
> >> On Jul 31, 2015 6:51 AM, "Upayavira" <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, at 07:29 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote:
> >> > > On 7/30/2015 10:46 AM, Robert Farrior wrote:
> >> > > > We have a requirement to be able to have a master product catalog and
> >> > to
> >> > > > create a sub-catalog of products per user. This means I may have 
> >> > > > 10,000
> >> > > > users who each create their own list of documents. This is a simple
> >> > mapping
> >> > > > of user to documents. The full data about the documents would be in
> >> > the main
> >> > > > catalog.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > What approaches would allow Solr to only return the results that are
> >> > in the
> >> > > > user's list?  It seems like I would need a couple of steps in the
> >> > process.
> >> > > > In other words, the main catalog has 3 documents: A, B and C. I have 
> >> > > > 2
> >> > > > users. User 1 has access to documents A and C but not B. User 2 has
> >> > access
> >> > > > to documents C and B but not A.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > When a user searches, I want to only return documents that the user 
> >> > > > has
> >> > > > access to.
> >> > >
> >> > > A common approach for Solr would be to have a multivalued "user" field
> >> > > on each document, which has individual values for each user that can
> >> > > access the document.  When you index the document, you included values
> >> > > in this field listing all the users that can access that document.
> >> > >
> >> > > Then you simply filter by user:
> >> > >
> >> > > fq=user:joe
> >> > >
> >> > > This is EXTREMELY efficient at query time, especially when the number 
> >> > > of
> >> > > users is much smaller than the number of documents.  It may complicate
> >> > > indexing somewhat, but indexing is an extremely custom operation that
> >> > > users have to write themselves, so it probably won't be horrible.
> >> >
> >> > Things to consider:
> >> >
> >> >  * How often are documents assigned to new users?
> >> >  * How many documents does a user typically have?
> >> >  * Do you have a 'trigger' in your app that tells you a user has been
> >> >  assigned
> >> >    a new doc?
> >> >
> >> > You can use a pseudo join to implement this sort of thing - have a
> >> > different core that contains the 'permissions', either a document that
> >> > says "this document ID is accessible via these users" or "this user is
> >> > allowed to see these document IDs". You are keeping your fast moving
> >> > (authorization) data separate from your slow moving (the docs
> >> > themselves) data.
> >> >
> >> > You can then say "find me all documents that are accessible via user X"
> >> >
> >> > Upayavira
> >> >

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