>
> instead they should be sent to separate fields
> author_fname
> author_lname
> author_email
>

or, a dynamic field called author_* (I am assuming all of the author fields
to be of the same type).

And if you use SolrJ, you can transform this info into a data structure like
"Map<String, String> authorInfo", where the keys would be "firstName",
"lastName", "email" etc. Look for more here -
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1129

Cheers
Avlesh

2009/7/30 Noble Paul നോബിള്‍ नोब्ळ् <noble.p...@corp.aol.com>

> apparently all the dat ais going to one field 'author'
>
> instead they should be sent to separate fields
> author_fname
> author_lname
> author_email
>
> so you would get details like
>
>     <str name="author_fname">John</str>
>     <str name="author_lname">Doe</str>
>     <str name="author_email">j...@doe.com</str>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:39 PM, ahammad<ahmed.ham...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Not sure how good my title is, but here is a (hopefully) better
> explanation
> > on what I mean.
> >
> > I am indexing a set of articles from a DB. Each article has an author.
> The
> > author is saved in then the DB as an author ID, which is a number.
> >
> > There is another table in the DB with more relevant information about the
> > author. Basically it has columns like:
> >
> > id, firstname, lastname, email, userid
> >
> > I set up the DIH so that it returns the userid, and it works fine:
> >
> > <arr name="author">
> >   <str>jdoe</str>
> >   <str>msmith</str>
> > </arr>
> >
> > Would it be possible to return all of the information about the author
> > (first name, ...) as a subset of the results above?
> >
> > Here is what I mean:
> >
> > <arr name="author">
> >   <arr name="jdoe">
> >      <str name="firstName">John</str>
> >      <str name="lastName">Doe</str>
> >      <str name="email">j...@doe.com</str>
> >   </arr>
> >   ...
> > </arr>
> >
> > Something similar to that at least...
> >
> > Not sure how descriptive I was, but any pointers would be highly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > --
> > View this message in context:
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> >
> >
>
>
>
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