If you're doing this in a sharded environment, it may be "interesting".

Good Luck!

Erick

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Dave Seltzer <dselt...@tveyes.com> wrote:
> Thanks Erick,
>
> I'm not sure I need to score the documents based on the numeric value, but
> I am interested in being able to calculate the average (Mean) of all the
> numeric values for a given tag. For example, what is the average confidence
> of Tag1 across all documents.
>
> I'm not sure I can do that without building a FunctionQuery.
>
> -Dave
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, there's no particular "right way". It'd be simpler
>> to index these as two separate fields _if_ there's only
>> one pair per document. If there are more and you index them
>> as two mutliValued fields, there's no good way at _query_ time
>> to retain the association. The returned multiValued fields are
>> guaranteed to be in the same order of insertion so you can
>> display the correct pairs, but you can't use the association
>> to score docs. Hmmm, somewhat abstract. OK say you want to
>> associate two tag/value pairs, tag1:50 and tag2:100. Say further
>> that you have two multiValued fields, Tags and Values and then
>> index tag1 and tag2 into Tags and 50 and 100 into Values.
>> There's no good way to express "q=tags:tag1 and factor the
>> associated value of 50 into the score"
>>
>> Note that the returned _values_ will be
>> Tags:   tag1 tag2
>> Values  50  100
>>
>> So at that point you can see the associations.
>>
>> that said, if there's only _one_ such tag/value pair per document,
>> it's easy to write a FunctionQuery (
>> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery)
>> that does this.
>>
>> *******************************
>>
>> If you have many tag/value pairs, payloads are probably what you want.
>> Here's an end-to-end example:
>>
>> http://searchhub.org/2014/06/13/end-to-end-payload-example-in-solr/
>>
>> Best,
>> Erick
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Dave Seltzer <dselt...@tveyes.com> wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > I have some new entity data that I'm indexing which takes the form of:
>> >
>> > String: EntityString
>> > Float: Confidence
>> >
>> > I want to add these to a generic "Tags" field (for faceting), but I'm not
>> > sure how to hold onto the confidence. Token Payloads seem like one
>> method,
>> > but then I'm not sure how to extract the Payload.
>> >
>> > Alternatively I could create two fields: TagIndexed which stores just the
>> > string value and TagStored which contains a delimited String|Float.
>> >
>> > What's the right way to do this?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > -D

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