OK thanks for the reply, fortunately we have now found an approach which avoids storing the field. It would be nice to be able to search for dynamic fields in a way which is consistent with their definition, although I suppose there probably isn't demand for this.
Regards, Ian. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] Sent: 09 December 2009 19:36 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Cc: Gary Ratcliffe Subject: Re: Selection of returned fields - dynamic fields? : Unfortunately this does not seem to work for dynamic fields - you can definiltely ask for a field that exists because of a dynamicField by name, but you can't use wildcard style patterns in the "fl" param. : "fl=PREFIX*" does not return anything, and neither does "fl=*POSTFIX". : What seems to be missing from Solr is a removeField(FIELDNAME) method in : SolrJ, or a "fl=-FIELDNAME" query parameter to remove the fixed field. : : Is such a feature planned, or is there a workaround that I have missed? There's been a lot of discussion about it over the years, the crux of the problem is that it's hard to come up with a good way of dealing with field names using "meta characters" that doesn't make it hard for people to actaully use those metacharacters in their field names... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldAliasesAndGlobsInParams -Hoss
