RE: Re: uniqueKey and custom fieldType

2010-08-15 Thread Markus Jelsma
copyField it to an analyzed field will do the trick.   -Original message- From: j Sent: Sun 15-08-2010 20:30 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; Subject: Re: uniqueKey and custom fieldType Hi Erick, thanks- your explanation makes sense. But how then, do I make my unique field useful in

Re: uniqueKey and custom fieldType

2010-08-15 Thread j
Hi Erick, thanks- your explanation makes sense. But how then, do I make my unique field useful in terms of searching. If I have a unique column id with value: sometexthere-1234567 and want it match the query '1234567', I need to use an analyzer to split up the parts around the hyphen/dash. I gues

Re: uniqueKey and custom fieldType

2010-08-15 Thread Erick Erickson
The short answer is that unique keys should be s single term. String types are guaranteed to be single, since they aren't analyzed. Your SplitUpStuff type *does* analyze terms, and can make multiple tokens out of single strings via WordDelimterFactory. A common error when thinking about the "strin

Re: uniqueKey and custom fieldType

2010-08-15 Thread j
I guess another way to pose the question is- what could cause id to no longer be respected? The last chance I made since I noticed the problem of non-unique docs was by changing field "title" from "string" to "SplitUpStuff". But I dont understand how that could affect the uniqueness of a differ

Re: uniqueKey and custom fieldType

2010-08-13 Thread Erick Erickson
In order to make even a guess, we'd have to see your new field type. Particularly its field definitions and the analysis chain... Best Erick On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:16 PM, j wrote: > Does fieldType have any effect on the thing that I specify should be > unique? > > uniqueKey has been working