Funny, I was just thinking about field aliases the other day. I personally never needed then, but I can see how they could be handy for both searching and writing out the response. On the other hand, isn't this fairly easy to implement with a field2field mapping in the search app itself?
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Fergus McMenemie <fer...@twig.me.uk> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 2:53:38 AM > Subject: Re: Customizing results > > >Generally a good idea, but be prepared to entertain requests that should > >also ask you to be able to perform the query using those aliases. I mean > >when you talk about something "similar" to aliases in SQL, those aliases can > >be used in SQL scripts in the where clause too. > > > >Cheers > >Avlesh > > I am using shards to provide access to several underlying indexes which > have drastically different schema. Each different shard has its own > dedicated search application built around it. However I also want to > implement a global search that performs a more limited but general purpose > search across all shards. I find I am doing lots of copyfields to get a > set of fields that can be used for the general purpose search, I feel sure > that this is redundant and that an aliasfields feature would be very > useful. > > For example one index has a "title" field another has a "subject" > field a third has a "placename" field. My general purpose or > global search treats these as as title. An aliasfields feature would > be more efficient and cleaner than using copyfields. > > Fergus. > > > > >2009/6/5 Noble Paul ?????? 青�ﾋｳﾋ > > > >> Hi Otis, > >> > >> is it a good idea to provide as aliasing feature for Solr similar to > >> the SQL 'as' > >> > >> in SQL we can do > >> > >> select location_da_dk as location > >> > >> Solr may have > >> > >> fl.alias=location_da_dk:location > >> > >> --Noble > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Otis Gospodnetic > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > Aha, so you really want to rename the field at response time? I wonder > >> if this is something that could be done with (or should be added to) > >> response writers. That's where I'd go look first. > >> > > >> > Otis > >> > -- > >> > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > ----- Original Message ---- > >> >> From: "Manepalli, Kalyan" > >> >> To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" > >> >> Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 5:30:40 PM > >> >> Subject: RE: Customizing results > >> >> > >> >> Otis, > >> >> With that solution, the client has to accept all type location > >> fields > >> >> (location_de_de, location_it_it). I want to copy the result into > >> "location" > >> >> field, so that client can just accept location. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks, > >> >> Kalyan Manepalli > >> >> -----Original Message----- > >> >> From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com] > >> >> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:16 PM > >> >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > >> >> Subject: Re: Customizing results > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Hello, > >> >> > >> >> If you know what language the user specified (or is associated with), > >> then you > >> >> just have to ensure the "fl" URL parameter contain that field (and any > >> other > >> >> fields you want returned). So if the language/locale is de_de, then > >> make sure > >> >> the request has fl=location_de_de,another_field,another_field, and not, > >> for > >> >> example location_it_it > >> >> > >> >> Otis > >> >> -- > >> >> Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> ----- Original Message ---- > >> >> > From: "Manepalli, Kalyan" > >> >> > To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" > >> >> > Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 12:36:30 PM > >> >> > Subject: Customizing results > >> >> > > >> >> > Hi, > >> >> > I am trying to customize the response that I receive from > >> Solr. In > >> >> > the index I have multiple fields that contain the same data in > >> different > >> >> > language. > >> >> > At the query time client specifies the language. Based on this param, > >> I want > >> >> to > >> >> > return the value, copied into a different field. > >> >> > Eg: > >> >> > Lubang, Filippinerne > >> >> > Lubang, Philippinen > >> >> > Lubang, Philippines > >> >> > Lubang, Filipinas > >> >> > > >> >> > If the user specifies language as de_de, then I want to return the > >> result as > >> >> > Lubang, Philippinen > >> >> > > >> >> > What is the most optimal way of doing this? > >> >> > Any suggestions on this will be helpful > >> >> > > >> >> > Thanks, > >> >> > Kalyan Manepalli > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> ----------------------------------------------------- > >> Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com > >>
