It depends how you want to use the payloads. If you want to use the payloads to calculate additional features, you can implement a payload feature:
This feature could calculate the sum of numerical payload for the query terms in each document ( so it will be a query dependent feature and will leverage the encoded indexed payload for the field). Alternatively you could use the payloads to affect the original Solr score before the re-ranking happens ( this makes sense only if you use the original Solr score as a feature) . I recommend you this blog about playloads [1]. So, long story short, it depends. [1] https://lucidworks.com/2017/09/14/solr-payloads/ ----- --------------- Alessandro Benedetti Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director Sease Ltd. - www.sease.io -- Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html
