I am not sure I fully understood the desired transformation, but
perhaps something from https://people.apache.org/~hossman/rev2016/
would help.
I am specifically thinking of:
*) f.person.qf example
*) ${people} example
Regards,
Alex.
On 27 February 2018 at 15:20, simon <mtnes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We do quite complex data pulls from a Solr index for subsequent analytics,
> currently using a home-grown Python API. Queries might include a handful
> of pseudofields which this API rewrites to an aliased field invoking a
> Document Transformer in the 'fl' parameter list.
>
> For example 'numcites' is transformed to
>
> 'fl= ....,numcites:[subquery]&numcites.fl=pmid&numcites.q={!terms
> f=md_c_pmid v=$row.pmid}&numcites.rows=10&numcites.logParamsList=q',...'
>
> What I'd ideally like to be able to do would be have this transformation
> defined in Solr configuration so that it's not tied to one particular
> external API - defining a macro, if you will, so that you could supply
> 'fl='a,b,c,%numcites%,...' in the request and have Solr do the expansion.
>
> Is there some way to do this that I've overlooked ? if not, I think it
> would be a useful new feature.
>
>
> -Simon
