On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Kumaravel Kandasami < kumaravel.kandas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Need to your suggestion in best designing the following requirement. > > - We have two indexes. > Index 1: "name_index", > Fields: > "id" - indexed, not stored > "field_name" - indexed, stored. > > Index 2: "trans_index', > Fields(Dynamic Schema): > "id" - indexed, not stored > "*" - indexed, stored. > > (Dynamic field names of the trans_index is the same as the "field_name" > from > the name_index.) > > - Requirement: > > User would select the field he wants to query from the "name_index". > Once he selects the one of the values from the 'field_name' (from the > name_index), he queries the trans_index using the field_name. > > > - Issue: > > When indexing the name_index field:"field_name" we are using the analyzer > that would lowercase, strip spaces etc. > Example: "First Name", "firstName" values are all stored and indexed as > 'firstname'. > > However, when we store field names in the trans_index we would be storing > as > it is ... without analyzing. > So User queries like 'firstname:a*' might not match. > > - Possible Solution: > > We are planning to have an custom analyzer that we would use while indexing > (configured in the schema.xml) file. As well the crawler program would use > the > same analyzer to create field names. > > Is there any better design solutions ? > > Your scenario sounds quite strange and it is still not clear why you are doing all this. Perhaps the solution doesn't even require two indexes? Can you describe the actual problem so that we can be of more help? -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
