The way folks have addressed this situation to date is to model the "multivalued fields" as additional documents too.
On Aug 26, 2011, at 09:32 , <dar...@ontrenet.com> <dar...@ontrenet.com> wrote: > > Many thanks Erick. > > I think a good feature to add to Solr to address this is > to allow a query to return either the "document" as a result > or the matching (multivalued) fields of a document as individual results > (subject to paging too). > Because sometimes the field value (only) is the desired result list. > > Since Solr already touches the index for the field match and paging, > all the logic is already there to return only the field results (and some > document metadata perhaps). > > I will ponder a way to do this with a query handler maybe. > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:09:06 -0400, Erick Erickson > <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: >> OK, I think I have it. >> >> It's a problem, indeed. And no, there's no way I know of to >> make a doc fetch only bring back some range of values in >> a multivalued field. >> >> So you're stuck with either getting the whole book back >> and peeling out the pages (how do you know which >> sentences are on which page anyway?) or breaking >> your book up somehow, say on a chapter or page basis >> to reduce what's returned. You could possibly group >> the results by book if you broke it up.. >> >> BTW, you can match within sentences by appropriate >> proximity searches combined with an incrementgap. >> >> Best >> Erick >> >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Darren Govoni <dar...@ontrenet.com> >> wrote: >>> Hi Erick, >>> Sure thing. >>> >>> I have a document schema where I put the sentences of that document in > a >>> multivalued field "sentences". >>> I search that field in a query but get back the document results, >>> naturally. >>> >>> I then need to further find which exact sentences matched the query > (for >>> each document result) >>> and then do my own paging since I am only returning pages of sentences >>> and >>> not the whole document. >>> (i.e. I don't want to page the document results). >>> >>> Does this make sense? Or is there a better way Solr can accomodate > this? >>> >>> Much appreciated. >>> >>> Darren >>> >>> On 08/25/2011 07:24 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: >>>> >>>> Hmm, I don't quite understand what you want. An example >>>> or two would help. >>>> >>>> Best >>>> Erick >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Darren Govoni<dar...@ontrenet.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> Is it possible to construct a query in Solr where the paged results >>>>> are >>>>> matching multivalued fields and not documents? >>>>> >>>>> thanks, >>>>> Darren >>>>> >>> >>>
