I have opened an issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1205
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Fergus McMenemie <fer...@twig.me.uk> wrote: >>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 > > I am using shards to provide access to several underlying indexes which > have drastically different schema. Each different shard has its own > dedicated search application built around it. However I also want to > implement a global search that performs a more limited but general purpose > search across all shards. I find I am doing lots of copyfields to get a > set of fields that can be used for the general purpose search, I feel sure > that this is redundant and that an aliasfields feature would be very > useful. > > For example one index has a "title" field another has a "subject" > field a third has a "placename" field. My general purpose or > global search treats these as as title. An aliasfields feature would > be more efficient and cleaner than using copyfields. > > Fergus. > >> >>2009/6/5 Noble Paul ?????? Â Ë³Ë <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 >>> > > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
