Doesn't this then also start sounding like various pre-indexing processing pipelines? I remember one person (was it somebody from Norway?) saying he has OpenPipe+Solr working.... hm, one "yahoo" away:
http://openpipe.berlios.de/ Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:04:14 PM > Subject: Re: Rounding date fields > > > : I propose the following syntax similar to the DateMath syntax: > ... > : Any date will be rounded to the nearest specified time and less significant > : units will be set to their least possible value. > > : If it is not desirable to round to nearest element (many times users don't > : want a value greater than given value), we can have: > > ... > > this starts to get into general territory of "a date math expression > applied to all input dates" ... so calling it "roundTo" may not be > appropriate. > > it also starts to get ito the realm of "arbitrary processing of values > prior to storing/indexing ... which could be useful in other ways (ie: > parsing alternate date formats) and for other field types (ie: limit > numeric fiels to a certain range, round float input to an int, etc...) > which is something i've been hoping to work on for a while now ... let any > FieldType have an analyzer, and add/abuse a new > type="preprocess"> for modifying the values before they are stored or > analyzed by the "index" analyzer. > > > > > -Hoss
