Could you post fieldType specification for "ex"? What your regex look like?
-----Original Message----- From: Aleksey Gogolev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:39 Joe To: Joe Nguyen Subject: Re[6]: Question about copyField JN> It doesn't need to be a copy field, right? Could you create a new field JN> "ex", extract value from description, delete digits, and set to "ex" JN> field before add/index to solr server? Yes, I can. I just was wondering can I use solr for this purpose or not. JN> -----Original Message----- JN> From: Feak, Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] JN> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:25 Joe JN> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org JN> Subject: RE: Re[4]: Question about copyField JN> My bad. I misunderstood what you wanted. JN> The example I gave was for the searching side of things. Not the data JN> representation in the document. JN> -Todd JN> -----Original Message----- JN> From: Aleksey Gogolev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] JN> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:14 AM JN> To: Feak, Todd JN> Subject: Re[4]: Question about copyField FT>> I would suggest doing this in your schema, then starting up Solr and FT>> using the analysis admin page to see if it will index and search the JN> way FT>> you want. That way you don't have to pay the cost of actually JN> indexing FT>> the data to find out. JN> Thanks. I did it exactly like you said. JN> I created a fieldType "ex" (short for experiment), defined JN> corresponding <copyFiled> and try it on the analysis page. Here is what JN> I got (I uploaded the page, so you can see it): JN> http://tut-i-tam.com.ua/static/analysis.jsp.htm JN> I want the final token "samsung spinpoint p spn hard drive gb ata" to JN> be the actual "ex" value. So I expect such response: JN> <result name="response" numFound="1" start="0"> JN> <doc> JN> <str name="ex">samsung spinpoint p spn hard drive gb JN> ata</str> JN> <str name="id">SP2514N</str> JN> <str name="description">Samsung SpinPoint12 P120 SP2514N - JN> hard drive - 250 GB - ATA-133</str> JN> </doc> JN> </result> JN> But when I'm searching this doc, I got this: JN> <result name="response" numFound="1" start="0"> JN> <doc> JN> <str name="ex">Samsung SpinPoint12 P120 SP2514N - hard JN> drive - 250 GB - ATA-133</str> JN> <str name="id">SP2514N</str> JN> <str name="description">Samsung SpinPoint12 P120 SP2514N - JN> hard drive - 250 GB - ATA-133</str> JN> </doc> JN> </result> JN> As you can see "description" and "ex" filed are identical. JN> The result of filter chain wasn't actually stored in the "ex" filed :( JN> Anyway, thank you :) FT>> -Todd FT>> -----Original Message----- FT>> From: Aleksey Gogolev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FT>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:24 AM FT>> To: Feak, Todd FT>> Subject: Re[2]: Question about copyField FT>> Thanks for reply. I want to make your point more exact, cause I'm JN> not FT>> sure that I correctly understood you :) FT>> As far as I know (correct me please, if I wrong) type defines the JN> way FT>> in which the field is indexed and queried. But I don't want to index FT>> or query "suggestion" field in different way, I want "suggestion" JN> field FT>> store different value (like in example I wrote in first mail). FT>> So you are saying that I can tell to slor (using filedType) how solr FT>> should process string before saving it? Yes? FT>>> The filters and tokenizer that are applied to the copy field are FT>>> determined by it's type in the schema. Simply create a new field FT>> type in FT>>> your schema with the filters you would like, and use that type for FT>> your FT>>> copy field. So, the field description would have it's old type, but FT>> the FT>>> field suggestion would get a new type. FT>>> -Todd Feak FT>>> -----Original Message----- FT>>> From: Aleksey Gogolev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FT>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:28 AM FT>>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org FT>>> Subject: Question about copyField FT>>> Hello. FT>>> I have field "description" in my schema. And I want make a filed FT>>> "suggestion" with the same content. So I added following line to my FT>>> schema.xml: FT>>> <copyField source="description" dest="suggestion"/> FT>>> But I also want to modify "description" string before copying it to FT>>> "suggestion" field. I want to remove all comas, dots and slashes. FT>> Here FT>>> is an example of such transformation: FT>>> "TvPL/st, SAMSUNG, SML200" => "TvPL st SAMSUNG SML200" FT>>> And so as result I want to have such doc: FT>>> <doc> FT>>> <field name="id">8asydauf9nbcngfaad</filed> FT>>> <field name="description">TvPL/st, SAMSUNG, SML200</filed> FT>>> <field name="description">TvPL st SAMSUNG SML200</filed> FT>>> </doc> FT>>> I think it would be nice to use solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory JN> for FT>>> this purpose. So the question is: Can I use solr filters for FT>>> processing "description" string before copying it to "suggestion" FT>>> field? FT>>> Thank you for your attention. -- Aleksey Gogolev developer, dev.co.ua Aleksey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]