I am not sure I can tell how to decide on one or another. However, I wanted to mention that you also have an option of doing in in the UpdateRequestProcessor chain. That's still within Solr (and therefore is consistent with multiple clients feeding into Solr) but is before individual field processing (so will survive - for example - a copyField).
Regards, Alex. ---- http://www.solr-start.com/ - Resources for Solr users, new and experienced On 29 March 2017 at 23:38, Derek Poh <d...@globalsources.com> wrote: > Hi > > Ineed to create afield that will be prefix and suffix with code 'z01x'.This > field needs to have the code in the index and during query. > I can either > 1. > have the source data of the field formatted with the code before indexing > (outside solr). > use a charFilter in the query stage of the field typeto add the codeduring > query. > > <charFilter class="solr.PatternReplaceCharFilterFactory" pattern="^(.*)$" > replacement="z01x $1 z01x" /> > > OR > > 2. > use the charFilter before tokenizerclass during the index and query analyzer > stage of the field type. > > The collection has between 100k - 200k documents currentlybut it may > increase in the future. > Theindexing time with option 2 and current indexing time is almost the same, > between 2-3 minutes. > > Which option would you advice? > > Derek > > ---------------------- > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or > privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or have > received this e-mail in error, please inform the sender immediately and > delete this e-mail (including any attachments) from your computer, and you > must not use, disclose to anyone else or copy this e-mail (including any > attachments), whether in whole or in part. > This e-mail and any reply to it may be monitored for security, legal, > regulatory compliance and/or other appropriate reasons.
