I do use solr over HTTP. I'm not familiar with Nginx or it's URL rewrite capabilities. Would this be easier to rewrite a complex query using this then a custom query parser?
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Markus Jelsma <markus.jel...@openindex.io> wrote: > If you use Solr over HTTP, then why don't you use URL rewriting? Nginx has > very powerful rewrite features and is capable of rewriting parts of the URL, > no need to write and compile and deploy code. > >> My organization is considering a few different approaches for indexing >> vs query rewrite and I'm trying to figure out what would be required >> in order to implement some form of query rewrite. Lets say my index >> has 2 fields first name and last name. When the user does a query >> name:bob I'd like to transform this into first_name:bob OR >> last_name:bob. I know this example is trivial but our real index is >> much more complex. Are there any extension points in solr for doing >> such a thing? If not are there any utilities which I could use for >> doing this? We are currently using the edismax query parser so I >> suppose I could extend that to handle this but I'm starting from a >> completely blank slate so any guidance would be appreciated. >
