As a workaround can you not have a search component run after the querycomponent, and have the qty_ordered,unit_price as stored fields and returned with the fl parameter and have your custom component do the calc, unless you need to sort by this value too?
Dan On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Peter Sturge <peter.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if it is possible during a query to create a returned > field 'on the fly' (like function query, but for concrete values, not > score). > > For example, if I input this query: > q=_val_:"product(15,3)"&fl=*,score > > For every returned document, I get score = 45. > > If I change it slightly to add *:* like this: > q=*:* _val_:"product(15,3)"&fl=*,score > > I get score = 32.526913. > > If I try my use case of _val_:"product(qty_ordered,unit_price)", I get > varying scores depending on...well depending on something. > > I understand this is doing relevance scoring, but it doesn't seem to > tally with the FunctionQuery Wiki > [example at the bottom of the page]: > > q=boxname:findbox+_val_:"product(product(x,y),z)"&fl=*,score > ...where score will contain the resultant volume. > > Is there a trick to getting not a score, but the actual value of > quantity*price (e.g. product(5,2.21) == 11.05)? > > Many thanks >
