: Given this type of layout, how would I go about querying and returning
: a list of blogs which contain text in either the blog content or any
: of the comments' content?
a big issue is how timely do your comments have to show up in the index
... for some people an acceptible tradeoff is that new/edited "blogs" get
sent to the index immediately, but a cron runing at fixed regular
intervals indexes the comments ... in that approach your first idea is
usually the most straight forward...
: 1) aggregate comment content into the blog content index, allowing me
: to query directly on the blog. However we are expecting the site to
A hybrid of your second and third suggestions is a much more involved
approach that might also work...
: 2) Use facets to get a list of parent items and issue an additional
: query (or hit the database) to pull in the parent content. Again,
...
: 3) Plug into the solr code and implement a custom request handler,
: HitCollector, or ...? I've spent some time digging into the solr code
: and I don't see any obvious place to plug this type of functionality
You can do pretty much anything you want in a custom request handler, but
i must admit that off the top of my head i can't think of any elegant way
to solve your problem.
Most people i know are happy with option #1 :)
-Hoss
