On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:38 AM, michael8 <mich...@saracatech.com> wrote:
>
> 2 things I noticed that are different from 1.3 to 1.4 for DataImport:
>
> 1. there are now 2 datetime values (per my specific schema I'm sure) in the
> dataimport.properties vs. only 1 in 1.3 (using the exact same schema). One
> is 'last_index_time' same as 1.3, and a *new* one (in 1.4) named
> item.last_index_time, where 'item' is my main and only entity name
> specified
> in my data-import.xml. they both have the same value.
>
>
This was added with SOLR-783 to enable delta imports of entities
individually. One can specify the entity name(s) which should be imported.
Without this it was not possible to correctly figure out deltas on a
per-entity basis.
> 2. in 1.3, the datetime passed to SQL used to be, e.g., '2009-10-05
> 14:08:01', but with 1.4 the format becomes 'Mon Oct 05 14:08:01 PDT 2009',
> with the day of week, name of month, and timezone spelled out. I had issue
> with the 1.4 format with MySQL only for the timezone part, but now I have a
> different solution without using this last index date altogether.
>
>
I just committed SOLR-1496 so the different date format issue is fixed in
trunk.
> I'm curious though if there's any config setting to pass to
> DataImportHandler to specify the desired date/time format to use.
>
>
There is no configuration to change this. However, you can write your own
Evaluator to output ${dih.last_index_time} in whatever format you prefer.
--
Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
