I like the idea of the wiki page; I think I will attempt to set one
up after this email, but I wanted to see if I could do a little bit
better job of fleshing out how pulling metadata out might work (in my
mind):
Scenario 1:
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We add suggestable metadata as part of the product schema, so we
could have something like
<add>
<doc>
<field name='id">12345</field>
<field name="author_first_letter" suggestable="1">Smith</field>
<field name="author" suggestable="1"
preceding="author_first_letter">S</field>
<field name="price_range" suggestable="1">0-25</field>
<field name="price">14.23</field>
<field name="name">Some Crazy Legal Book</field>
</doc>
</add>
Once we reindex, we do a search for 'legal' again and our book is in
it. Based on our index, we can scan the resultset and see that the
results have three suggestable fields, two of which do not require a
preceding field.
We return a list of the attributes and their distinct values for
author_first_letter and price_range.
If author_first_letter is specified as S in the enxt step of the
search, then we offer the author attribute and the distinct values of
author where author_first_letter = S
If price_range 0-25 is selected, then we don't show price in the
metatdata list, since it is not suggestable.
I don't think this would be really much more difficult than trying to
extract attributes, and it gives people an easier time adiopting this
project without shutting down the default functionaity that the TODO
list suggests right now.
and now to start that wiki... Thoughts?
corey
