Sorry, it dropped off my radar somehow. Just opened SOLR-9187. I have a patch that I'm testing now, we'll see how that goes.
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Ronald Wood <rw...@smarsh.com> wrote: > > Thanks! I'm glad to find out I'm not going crazy. > > I'll keep a lookout for that enhancement. > > Ronald S. Wood > > Immediate customer support: > Call 1-866-762-7741<tel:1-866-762-7741> (x2) or > emailsupp...@smarsh.com<mailto:supp...@smarsh.com> > > On Jun 1, 2016, at 21:45, Joel Bernstein > <joels...@gmail.com<mailto:joels...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > The documentation is wrong for sure. We need a new example query. > > I was just discussing the date issue with Erick Erickson the other day. I > believe he is working on adding dates to the export handler but I didn't > see a jira ticket for this yet. We'll also need to add dates to the /export > handler for date support in the Parallel SQL interface. > > Erick, if you're reading this, let us know if this is in the works. > > > > > Joel Bernstein > http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/ > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Ronald Wood > <rw...@smarsh.com<mailto:rw...@smarsh.com>> wrote: > > I have spent a bit of time with the export handler in 5.5.1 (since we are > unable to upgrade directly from 4 to 6). The speed looks impressive at > first glance compared to paging with cursors. > > However, I am deeply confused that it does not seem to be possible to > either sort on or get date values when doing an export. > > I say deeply confused, because the example in the Reference Guide is this: > > > http://localhost:8983/solr/core_name/export?q=my-query&sort=severity+desc,timestamp+desc&fl=severity,timestamp,msg > > Now, I suppose you could argue that timestamp's schema type isn't shown, > so maybe it's an epochal integer value. > > Certainly when I try to get our date field (defined as TrieDateField in > our schema) I get this error: > > java.io.IOException: Export fields must either be one of the following > types: int,float,long,double,string > at > org.apache.solr.response.SortingResponseWriter.getFieldWriters(SortingResponseWriter.java:277) > at > org.apache.solr.response.SortingResponseWriter.write(SortingResponseWriter.java:120) > at > org.apache.solr.response.QueryResponseWriterUtil.writeQueryResponse(QueryResponseWriterUtil.java:52) > ... > > And I see date is not a type there. However, int, float, long and double > are also Trie types, so I'm not sure why a TrieDateField could not also be > sorted or exported. > > I wonder if someone could elucidate this. I would have thought getting > dates out of an export or stream would be highly desirable. I am definitely > open to the high likelihood I am doing something wrong. > > I apologize if this topic has been covered before, as I was unable to find > a way to search the mailing list on the Apache mail archives site. I wonder > if there's some search engine out there that could do that kind of thing? ? > > Ronald S. Wood | Senior Software Developer > 857-991-7681 (mobile) > > Smarsh > 100 Franklin St. Suite 903 | Boston, MA 02210 > 1-866-SMARSH-1 | 971-998-9967 (fax) > www.smarsh.com<http://www.smarsh.com><http://www.smarsh.com/> > > Immediate customer support: > Call 1-866-762-7741 (x2) or visit > www.smarsh.com/support<http://www.smarsh.com/support>< > http://www.smarsh.com/support> >