Hi Peter, Are you familiar with the Schema API?: <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Schema+API>
You can use it to create fields, field types, etc. prior to ingesting your data. -- Steve www.lucidworks.com > On May 17, 2016, at 11:05 AM, Horváth Péter Gergely > <peter.gergely.horv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > By default Solr allows you to define the type of a dynamic field by > appending a post-fix to the name itself. E.g. creating a color_s field > instructs Solr to create a string field. My understanding is that if we do > this, all queries must refer the post-fixed field name as well. So > instead of a query like color:"red", we will have to write something like > color_s:"red" -- and so on for other field types as well. > > I am wondering if it is possible to specify the data type used for a field > in Solr 6.0.0, without having to modify the field name. (Or at least in a > way that would allow us to use the original field name) Do you have any > idea, how to achieve this? I am fine, if we have to specify the field type > during the insertion of a document, however, I do not want to keep using > post-fixes while running queries... > > Thanks, > Peter
