Hi Zahra, We had a similar issue in our collections and we solved this by generating a UUID value using the content of other fields, in reply to your first question. Have a look at the section https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_4/update-request-processors.html#custom-update-request-processor-chain, specifically at how SignatureUpdateProcessorFactory is used.
In our case, we create a UUID in field “id” (signatureField) from the fields bioentity_identifier, property_name and property_value (fields). <updateRequestProcessorChain name="dedupe" default="true"> <processor class="solr.processor.SignatureUpdateProcessorFactory"> <bool name="enabled">true</bool> <str name="signatureField">id</str> <bool name="overwriteDupes">false</bool> <str name="fields">bioentity_identifier,property_name,property_value</str> <str name="signatureClass">solr.processor.Lookup3Signature</str> </processor> <!-- Uncomment to disable explicit commit and optimize calls --> <!--<processor class="solr.IgnoreCommitOptimizeUpdateProcessorFactory">--> <!--<int name="statusCode">200</int>--> <!--</processor>--> <processor class="solr.LogUpdateProcessorFactory" /> <processor class="solr.DistributedUpdateProcessorFactory"/> <processor class="solr.RunUpdateProcessorFactory" /> </updateRequestProcessorChain> As for your second question, how is that different to automatic UUID generation? HTH, Alfonso > On 16 Sep 2018, at 11:20, Zahra Aminolroaya <z.aminolro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have two questions about using uuid: > > In Solr refs, it is stated that the unique id could be of uuid type. I > found we can generate uuid when the doc id with uuid field type is null or > we it is generated by using > doc.addField("id", UUID.randomUUID().toString()) in solrj. > > 1- Suppose my unique id type is string. Can I generate a uuid value from my > unique id string and insert it as a distinct uuid field in Solr? > > > 1- Suppose my unique id type is uuid. If I try to insert a random string > which is not in uuid format, I get the "invalid uuid" error. Is there anyway > to generate a correct uuid value in solr GUI similar to what solrj > UUID.randomUUID().toString() generates? > > Best, > Zahra > > > > -- > Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html -- Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes Senior Lead Software Engineer @ Gene Expression Team European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory Tel:+ 44 (0) 1223 49 2633 Skype: amunozpomer