Peter, It’s an interesting idea. Could you make a Solr JIRA?
I don’t know where the field type specification would go, but providing a mechanism to specify field type for previously non-existent fields, outside of the field names themselves, seems useful. In the meantime, do you know about field aliasing? 1. You can get results back that rename fields to whatever you want: see the section “Field Name Aliases” here: <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Common+Query+Parameters>. 2. On the query side, eDisMax can perform aliasing so that user-specified field names in queries get mapped to one or more indexed fields: look for “alias” in <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/The+Extended+DisMax+Query+Parser>. -- Steve www.lucidworks.com > On May 19, 2016, at 4:43 AM, Horváth Péter Gergely > <peter.gergely.horv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Yes, I know the schema API, however I do not want to specify the field type > problematically for every single field. > > I would like to be able to specify the field type when it is being added > (similar to the name postfixes, but without affecting the field names). > > Thanks, > Peter > > > 2016-05-17 17:08 GMT+02:00 Steve Rowe <sar...@gmail.com>: > >> 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 >> >>
