Hmm, okay, I guess I wasn't taking the hierarchy-flattening aspect of Solr
seriously enough. :)
Based on your reply from the other thread, I guess the best solution, as far as
I can tell, is to maintain the multiple value lists and take advantage of the
fact that the arrays will always be in the right order:
<arr name="manu_id">
<int>1</int>
<int>2</int>
</arr>
<arr name="manu_name">
<str>ABC Corp</str> <!-- ID should be 1, right? -->
<str>XYZ Inc</str> <!-- Should be 2 -->
</arr>
So I guess the problem isn't really *sooo* bad...I just need to make sure that
I have the appropriate names defined so I can link between two arrays in my
client code. I suppose I could keep things straight by preserving the hierarchy
within the name attribute.
-----Original Message-----
From: harrysmith [mailto:harrysmith...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 4:10 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Confusion about entities and documents
>What I get when I search for, say, "XYZ", is a document that has XYZ Corp as
a manufacturer name, but the >array of parts_manu appears to be a child of
the document, not the parts array.
>
>Is this the correct behavior, insofar as a document has a single level of
elements, and that's it? If so, what >might be a better strategy for being
able to maintain the hierarchy of information within a document?
>
Yes, this is the correct behavior. I still struggle with the same issue, and
there is no 'best practices' (that I have found at least) of maintaining
relationships within a Solr doc. The argument is Solr is not the correct
place for these representations and should only represent a flat version of
your document.
For a similar question see:
http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Schema-Definition-Question-td1049966.html#a1105593
A few possible solutions are posted there, and i'm interested in how others
have tackled this issue.
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