makes sense. could i set up a simple regex filter in a placeholder field of sorts and then copy that field into my tdouble field?
-- *John Blythe* Product Manager & Lead Developer 251.605.3071 | j...@curvolabs.com www.curvolabs.com 58 Adams Ave Evansville, IN 47713 On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Alessandro Benedetti < abenede...@apache.org> wrote: > I agree with Upayavira, > this is an information extraction task, you need to implement your logic to > extract the proper numeric values from the textual field. > Your update request processor could be as simple as you want in extracting > the number and setting them in numeric fields. > So this task is responsibility of a component that process the original > field value. > It is not responsibility of the tdouble field type. > > Cheers > > On 11 March 2016 at 15:29, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, at 03:19 PM, John Blythe wrote: > > > hey all, > > > > > > i'm tossing a lot of mud against the wall and am wanting to see what > > > sticks. part of that includes throwing item descriptions against some > > > fields i've set up as doubles. the imported data is a double and some > of > > > the descriptions will have the related data within it (product sizes, > > > e.g. > > > "Super awesome product 10 x 20cm"). is there a way to throw text at a > > > number field (tdouble) and it only analyze the numbers instead of > > > throwing > > > an error? > > > > > > thanks for any info! > > > > If you really must do that on the Solr side, I'd suggest you try doing > > it in an UpdateProcessor. You can either code these in Java, or in a > > scripting language with the StatelessScriptUpdateProcessor. You could > > strip out all of the non-numeric characters before they get to the > > index. > > > > Upayavira > > > > > > -- > -------------------------- > > Benedetti Alessandro > Visiting card : http://about.me/alessandro_benedetti > > "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 >
