You need to do that programmatically. Using SolrJ would be not so difficult to do that in few line of codes. Be careful to the stored fields if you don't want to lose anything.
Cheers 2015-09-17 17:48 GMT+01:00 Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes <amu...@ebi.ac.uk>: > You’re right, we’re not working with a uniqueKey and I wasn’t aware of > that requirement. > > What I’d like is to update the documents without having to retrieve all of > them (or their unique ids). Basically, there are some data that all > documents that match a query will share; for the sake of the example, all > Neal Stephenson’s books are going to be categorised sci-fi, so something > like the request I specified before (in the same way that multiple > documents can be deleted with just one request). > > If Solr doesn’t offer that “out of the box”, could I accomplish that with > a plug-in? > > Thanks a lot for the info. > > > On 17/09/2015 17:23, Shawn Heisey wrote: > >> On 9/17/2015 10:14 AM, Shawn Heisey wrote: >> >>> This assumes that the uniqueKey field is "id". Unless your uniqueKey >>> field is "author_s" (which is highly unlikely), the JSON that you used >>> will not work. Chances are that the request failed, that nothing >>> happened. >>> >> >> On my first reading, I did not catch that you said it added a new >> document with the fields you specified, so my assumption that the >> request failed was clearly wrong. >> >> I think this must mean that you have disabled (removed) the uniqueKey >> setting in your schema -- adding a document that does not have the >> uniqueKey field will fail. I'm reasonably certain that you cannot do >> atomic updates if you do not have a uniqueKey. >> >> I have just checked our documentation for Atomic Updates ... and the >> uniqueKey requirement is NOT mentioned. I think that's a documentation >> bug. >> >> Thanks, >> Shawn >> >> > -- > Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes > Software Engineer @ Expression Atlas Team > European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) > European Molecular Biology Laboratory > Tel:+ 44 (0) 1223 49 2633 > Skype: amunozpomer > -- -------------------------- Benedetti Alessandro Visiting card - http://about.me/alessandro_benedetti Blog - http://alexbenedetti.blogspot.co.uk "Tyger, tyger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" William Blake - Songs of Experience -1794 England
