Hi Rajesh,

Have you taked a look on Query Re-Ranking? The idea is a little different of 
what you want but i think it should work, essentially you use your normal 
search query and then re-rank the top-n documents using a sencod query, this 
second query could use the position field to influence your ranking. 

Regards,

----- Mensaje original -----
De: "Edward P" <edwardp3...@gmail.com>
Para: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Enviados: Sábado, 20 de Febrero 2016 17:56:52
Asunto: [MASSMAIL]Re: How to boost query based on result of subquery?

Hi Rajesh,

Thanks for the input but this does not directly address my problem.
Currently I am not having an issue with loading the "position" values into
my documents. They are indexed as regular fields with the rest of the
document.
It is a good tip about ExternalFileField. I might use that later if my
position data becomes bigger or changes on a different schedule than my
other data. But this isn't currently a problem.

My problem, rather, is that I don't want to the client to send a "position"
value. I want the client to send an item_id, and in a single Solr request,
I want (1) to find the position for the item_id, then (2) use the position
in another query's boost function. I need to find a way to chain these 2
queries together in a single Solr request.

thanks,
Ed


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Rajesh Hazari <rajeshhaz...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ed,
>
> Did you look into ExternalFilefield type (for ex: with name ::
>  position_external_field  in your schema), which can be used to map to your
> field (for ex position, hope these are not changed very often) and then use
> position_external_field in your boost function.
>
> This can be used if you can comeup with unique field values for position
> field as this is application specific field,
> this can be changed to something like, if these are finite.
> position_5=5
> position_25=25
> position_55=55
>
> for ex: &boost=custom_function(field(query_position_external),
> field(position_external))
>
> for more info refer wiki
> <
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Working+with+External+Files+and+Processes
> >
> .
>
> pros:
> the value of this field can be refreshed with every newsearcher and
> firstsearcher
> using
> <listener event="newSearcher" class=
> "org.apache.solr.schema.ExternalFileFieldReloader"/>
> <listener event="firstSearcher" class=
> "org.apache.solr.schema.ExternalFileFieldReloader"/>
>
> Cons: This file has to reside in data folder of each replica,
>            updating of this file will have to be some bash script.
>
> *Please ignore if this may not work for you.*
>
> *Rajesh**.*
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Edward P <edwardp3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using Solr 5.4.0, one collection, multiple shards with replication.
> > Sample documents:
> > {
> > "item_id": "30d1e667",
> > "date": "2014-01-01",
> > "position": "5",
> > "description": "automobile license plate holder"
> > }
> >
> > {
> > "item_id": "3cf18028",
> > "date": "2013-01-01",
> > "position": "23",
> > "description": "dinner plate"
> > }
> >
> > {
> > "item_id": "be1b2643",
> > "date": "2013-06-01",
> > "position": "21",
> > "description": "ceramic plate"
> > }
> >
> >
> > The client sends 2 queries like this:
> > (1) /select?q=item_id:30d1e667&fl=position
> > (2)
> /select?q=plate&query_position=5&boost=custom_function($query_position,
> > $position)&fl=item_id,date,description
> >
> > The idea is, we have an application-specific data field "position" which
> we
> > use to compare 2 items. The client looks up a particular item by item_id,
> > gets the position data, then sends it back in the 2nd query to influence
> > the ranking of items when performing a text search for "plate". Our
> > custom_function is app-specific and may for example derive the boost from
> > the difference of query_position and document's position.
> >
> > My need is: I want to combine these into one query, so the client will
> only
> > have to send something like:
> >
> > /select?query_item_id=30d1e667&query_text=plate&q={… use of Solr nested
> > queries, boost functions etc …}&fl=item_id,date,description
> >
> > I want this to be one request so that both queries are executed against
> the
> > same searcher (because index updates may change the position values) and
> so
> > the details of using the "position" field are abstracted from the client.
> >
> > I have considered the query(subquery,default) function. This is close,
> but
> > not exactly what I need because it returns the subquery score, not
> document
> > values.
> >
> > The join query parser is also close to what I need, but I can't see how
> to
> > use it to direct the results of a subquery into the boost function of
> > another.
> >
> > So how can I, in a single Solr request, extract a value from the result
> > document of one subquery, and pass that value into a boost function for a
> > 2nd query, all using the same underlying searcher? If it's not possible
> > with existing nested/sub-queries, then should I explore writing a custom
> > SearchComponent, QParser, or some other plugin?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Ed
> >
>

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