OK, that makes sense. I'd deal with this on the UI side personally. My reasoning is that it's poor design to make you search server jump through hoops because you want to write client-side code that can ignore edge cases. The UI changes and now you have to go back to the search code to accommodate that change.
Change, repeat. FWIW Erick On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Turner, Robbin J < robbin.j.tur...@boeing.com> wrote: > We've been building a UI which displays the results in a tabular formate, > so each of the fields that are available for search are presented to the > user. We still discussing where it's best to sort this out in our overall > system design, such as the UI or application layer. Given our current > thought is to do it at the UI level, check if the tag is returned or not, I > still wanted to check if it's at all possible to make Solr return empty > field tags. > > We have several data sets within our index that we've fitted into our > schema, so that even though the field is indexed and stored, documes may not > have data for that field and may be empty when indexed. > > So hence my query to the group. > > Robbin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:21 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Can Solr be forced to return all field tags for a document > even if the field is empty?l > > This is kind of an unusual request, what higher-level problem are you > trying to solve here? Because the field just *isn't there* in the underlying > Lucene index for that document. > > I suppose you could index a "not there" token and just throw those values > out from the response... > > Erick > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Turner, Robbin J < > robbin.j.tur...@boeing.com> wrote: > > > I have a field Title and Summary. I've currently not set a default > > value for the Summary in my schema, it's just a text field with > > indexed=true and stored=true, but not required. When the data is > > indexed sometimes the documents don't have a summary so then Solr doesn't > index that field. > > > > When a query is sent and we get the results for those documents > > returned, if they did not have a summary then there is no tagged in > > the xml for that field. > > > > Is there a way to have the xml always return the field tags for each > > document in the result set even if the field has no data? > > > > I apologize ahead of time if this has been answered, but after doing a > > bit of search have not been able to find the answer elsewhere. > > > > Thanks > > Robbin > > > > > > >
