On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Mark Allan <mark.al...@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi, thanks for your prompt reply. I'm a bit confused though - the only way > to do this is a two-step process? > > I have to write code to munge the XML into another document which is > exactly the same except for the format of the Date field, and then import > that second file? Isn't that the whole purpose of having an analyzer with > the solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory filters? What's odd is that the > pattern replacement works if I store the field as text but not as a date. > Are you sure this isn't a bug? > Analyzers are applied only for the indexed value but not the stored value. A value which is added to DateField is converted to the same internal format (for both indexing and storing purposes) and then added to the index. The DateField#toInternal method is the one which is attempting to parse the string into a date and failing when the field is created. There is another option. You could create a class which extends DateField and overrides toInternal(String) to do the conversion. You can specify this class in the schema.xml instead of DateField. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
