Thanks Lance. It looks like it's worth investigating. I've already
started down the path of using a bean with "@Field(map_*)" on my
HashMap setter. This defect tipped me off on this functionality:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1357
This technique provides me with a mechanism to store the HashMap data,
but flattens the structure. I'll play with the ideas provided on
"http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HierarchicalFaceting";. If anyone has
some sample code (java + schema.xml) they can point me too that does
"Hierarchical Faceting" I would very much appreciate it.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Lance Norskog wrote:
> There are more advanced ways to embed hierarchy in records. This describes
> them:
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HierarchicalFaceting
>
> (This is a great page, never noticed it.)
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Sheldon P wrote:
>> Thanks for the prompt reply Jack. Could you point me towards any code
>> examples of that technique?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Jack Krupansky
>> wrote:
>>> The general rule in Solr is simple: denormalize your data.
>>>
>>> If you have some maps (or tables) and a set of keys (columns) for each map
>>> (table), define fields with names like _, such as
>>> "map1_name", "map2_name", "map1_field1", "map2_field1". Solr has dynamic
>>> fields, so you can define "_*" to have a desired type - if all the
>>> keys have the same type.
>>>
>>> -- Jack Krupansky
>>>
>>> -Original Message- From: Sheldon P
>>> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 3:33 PM
>>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
>>> Subject: How do I represent a group of customer key/value pairs
>>>
>>>
>>> I've just started to learn Solr and I have a question about modeling data
>>> in the schema.xml.
>>>
>>> I'm using SolrJ to interact with my Solr server. It's easy for me to store
>>> key/value paris where the key is known. For example, if I have:
>>>
>>> title="Some book title"
>>> author="The authors name"
>>>
>>>
>>> I can represent that data in the schema.xml file like this:
>>>
>>>>> stored="true"/>
>>>>> stored="true"/>
>>>
>>> I also have data that is stored as a Java HashMap, where the keys are
>>> unknown:
>>>
>>> Map map = new HashMap();
>>> map.put("some unknown key", "some unknown data");
>>> map.put("another unknown key", "more unknown data");
>>>
>>>
>>> I would prefer to store that data in Solr without losing its hierarchy.
>>> For example:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >> stored="true"/>
>>>
>>> >> stored="true"/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Then I could search for "some unknown key", and receive "some unknown data".
>>>
>>> Is this possible in Solr? What is the best way to store this kind of data?
>
>
>
> --
> Lance Norskog
> goks...@gmail.com
