Sorry,its actually doctorUrl, so I dont want to use doctorUrl as a lookup mechanism because urls can have special characters that can caise issue with Solr lookup.
I guess I should rephrase my question to ,how to auto generate the unique keys in the id field when using SolrCloud? On Nov 12, 2014 7:28 PM, "Garth Grimm" <garthgr...@averyranchconsulting.com> wrote: > You mention you already have a unique Key identified for the data you’re > storing in Solr: > > > <uniqueKey>doctorId<uniquekey> > > If that’s the field you’re using to uniquely identify each thing you’re > storing in the solr index, why do you want to have an id field that is > populated with some random value? You’ll be using the doctorId field as > the key, and the id field will have no real meaning in your Data Model. > > If doctorId actually isn’t unique to each item you plan on storing in > Solr, is there any other field that is? If so, use that field as your > unique key. > > Remember, this uniqueKeys are usually used for routing documents to shards > in SolrCloud, and are used to ensure that later updates of the same “thing” > overwrite the old one, rather than generating multiple copies. So the keys > really should be something derived from the data your storing. I’m not > sure if I understand why you would want to have the key randomly generated. > > > On Nov 12, 2014, at 6:39 PM, S.L <simpleliving...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Just tried adding <uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey> while keeping id type= > > "string" only blank ids are being generated ,looks like the id is being > > auto generated only if the the id is set to type uuid , but in case of > > SolrCloud this id will be unique per replica. > > > > Is there a way to generate a unique id both in case of SolrCloud with > out > > using the uuid type or not having a per replica unique id? > > > > The uuid in question is of type . > > > > <fieldType name="uuid" class="solr.UUIDField" indexed="true" /> > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:20 PM, S.L <simpleliving...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Thanks. > >> > >> So the issue here is I already have a <uniqueKey>doctorId<uniquekey> > >> defined in my schema.xml. > >> > >> If along with that I also want the <id></id> field to be automatically > >> generated for each document do I have to declare it as a <uniquekey> as > >> well , because I just tried the following setting without the uniqueKey > for > >> id and its only generating blank ids for me. > >> > >> *schema.xml* > >> > >> <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" > >> required="true" multiValued="false" /> > >> > >> *solrconfig.xml* > >> > >> <updateRequestProcessorChain name="uuid"> > >> > >> <processor class="solr.UUIDUpdateProcessorFactory"> > >> <str name="fieldName">id</str> > >> </processor> > >> <processor class="solr.RunUpdateProcessorFactory" /> > >> </updateRequestProcessorChain> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Garth Grimm < > >> garthgr...@averyranchconsulting.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Looking a little deeper, I did find this about UUIDField > >>> > >>> > >>> > http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_9_0/solr-core/org/apache/solr/schema/UUIDField.html > >>> > >>> "NOTE: Configuring a UUIDField instance with a default value of "NEW" > is > >>> not advisable for most users when using SolrCloud (and not possible if > the > >>> UUID value is configured as the unique key field) since the result > will be > >>> that each replica of each document will get a unique UUID value. Using > >>> UUIDUpdateProcessorFactory< > >>> > http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_9_0/solr-core/org/apache/solr/update/processor/UUIDUpdateProcessorFactory.html > > > >>> to generate UUID values when documents are added is recomended > instead.” > >>> > >>> That might describe the behavior you saw. And the use of > >>> UUIDUpdateProcessorFactory to auto generate ID’s seems to be covered > well > >>> here: > >>> > >>> > >>> > http://solr.pl/en/2013/07/08/automatically-generate-document-identifiers-solr-4-x/ > >>> > >>> Though I’ve not actually tried that process before. > >>> > >>> On Nov 11, 2014, at 7:39 PM, Garth Grimm < > >>> garthgr...@averyranchconsulting.com<mailto: > >>> garthgr...@averyranchconsulting.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> “uuid” isn’t an out of the box field type that I’m familiar with. > >>> > >>> Generally, I’d stick with the out of the box advice of the schema.xml > >>> file, which includes things like…. > >>> > >>> <!-- Only remove the "id" field if you have a very good reason to. > >>> While not strictly > >>> required, it is highly recommended. A <uniqueKey> is present in > >>> almost all Solr > >>> installations. See the <uniqueKey> declaration below where > >>> <uniqueKey> is set to "id". > >>> --> > >>> <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" > >>> required="true" multiValued="false" /> > >>> > >>> and… > >>> > >>> <!-- Field to use to determine and enforce document uniqueness. > >>> Unless this field is marked with required="false", it will be a > >>> required field > >>> --> > >>> <uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey> > >>> > >>> If you’re creating some key/value pair with uuid as the key as you feed > >>> documents in, and you know that the uuid values you’re creating are > unique, > >>> just change the field name and unique key name from ‘id’ to ‘uuid’. Or > >>> change the key name you send in from ‘uuid’ to ‘id’. > >>> > >>> On Nov 11, 2014, at 7:18 PM, S.L <simpleliving...@gmail.com<mailto: > >>> simpleliving...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I am seeing interesting behavior on the replicas , I have a single > >>> shard and 6 replicas and on SolrCloud 4.10.1 . I only have a small > >>> number of documents ~375 that are replicated across the six replicas . > >>> > >>> The interesting thing is that the same document has a different id in > >>> each one of those replicas . > >>> > >>> This is causing the fq(id:xyz) type queries to fail, depending on > >>> which replica the query goes to. > >>> > >>> I have specified the id field in the following manner in schema.xml, > >>> is it the right way to specifiy an auto generated id in SolrCloud ? > >>> > >>> <field name="id" type="uuid" indexed="true" stored="true" > >>> required="true" multiValued="false" /> > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >
