Generally a good idea, but be prepared to entertain requests that should also ask you to be able to perform the query using those aliases. I mean when you talk about something "similar" to aliases in SQL, those aliases can be used in SQL scripts in the where clause too.
Cheers Avlesh 2009/6/5 Noble Paul നോബിള് नोब्ळ् <noble.p...@corp.aol.com> > Hi Otis, > > is it a good idea to provide as aliasing feature for Solr similar to > the SQL 'as' > > in SQL we can do > > select location_da_dk as location > > Solr may have > > fl.alias=location_da_dk:location > > --Noble > > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Otis Gospodnetic > <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Aha, so you really want to rename the field at response time? I wonder > if this is something that could be done with (or should be added to) > response writers. That's where I'd go look first. > > > > Otis > > -- > > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: "Manepalli, Kalyan" <kalyan.manepa...@orbitz.com> > >> To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > >> Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 5:30:40 PM > >> Subject: RE: Customizing results > >> > >> Otis, > >> With that solution, the client has to accept all type location > fields > >> (location_de_de, location_it_it). I want to copy the result into > "location" > >> field, so that client can just accept location. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Kalyan Manepalli > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com] > >> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:16 PM > >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > >> Subject: Re: Customizing results > >> > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> If you know what language the user specified (or is associated with), > then you > >> just have to ensure the "fl" URL parameter contain that field (and any > other > >> fields you want returned). So if the language/locale is de_de, then > make sure > >> the request has fl=location_de_de,another_field,another_field, and not, > for > >> example location_it_it > >> > >> Otis > >> -- > >> Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > >> > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ---- > >> > From: "Manepalli, Kalyan" > >> > To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" > >> > Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 12:36:30 PM > >> > Subject: Customizing results > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > I am trying to customize the response that I receive from > Solr. In > >> > the index I have multiple fields that contain the same data in > different > >> > language. > >> > At the query time client specifies the language. Based on this param, > I want > >> to > >> > return the value, copied into a different field. > >> > Eg: > >> > Lubang, Filippinerne > >> > Lubang, Philippinen > >> > Lubang, Philippines > >> > Lubang, Filipinas > >> > > >> > If the user specifies language as de_de, then I want to return the > result as > >> > Lubang, Philippinen > >> > > >> > What is the most optimal way of doing this? > >> > Any suggestions on this will be helpful > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Kalyan Manepalli > > > > > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------- > Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com >
