--- On Tue, 6/21/11, Kissue Kissue <kissue...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Kissue Kissue <kissue...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Applying boost factors at run time
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 1:31 PM
> Hi,
>
> I have the following situation:
>
> 1. I am using Solr 3.1
> 2. I am using the edismax query handler for my queries
> 3. I am using the SolrJ client library
> 4. Currently i have configured the fields i want to search
> on and the bosst
> factors in solr config.
>
> But i have just been told that we would need the bosst
> factors to be stored
> in a database so that admin can modify them as at when
> needed. So i want to
> know if it is possible to set the boost factors at runtime
> for the fields
> using the values stored in the database using Solr J?
Yes you can always override defaults - defined in solrconfig.xml - in every
request.
SolrQuery.set("qf", "myField^newBoostFactor");
