My mistake. The error turned out to be somewhere else and the described
approach seems to work.
Sorry for the wasted bandwidth.
On Mar 8, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Robert Krüger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've run into problems trying to achieve a seemingly simple thing. I'm
> indexing a bunch of files (local ones and potentially some accessible via
> other protocols like http or ftp) and have an index field with the url to the
> file, e.g. "file:/home/foo/bar.pdf". Now I want to perform two simple types
> of queries on this, i.e. retrieve all file records located under a certain
> path (e.g. file:/home/foo/*) or find the file record for an exact URL.
>
> What I naively tried was to index the file URL in a field ("fileURL") of type
> string and simply perform queries like
>
> fileURL:file\:/home/foo/*
>
> and
>
> fileURL:file\:/home/foo/bar.pdf
>
> and neither one returned results.
>
> the type is defined as
>
> <fieldtype name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true"
> omitNorms="true"/>
>
> and the field as
>
> <field name="fileURL" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"
> multiValued="false" />
>
> I am using solr 1.4.1 and use solrj to do the indexing and querying.
>
> This seems like a rather basic requirement and obviously I am doing something
> wrong. I didn't find anything in the docs or the mailing list archive so far.
>
> Any help, hints, pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Robert
>
