Thanks Hoss. This looks very interesting but does not yet have support for highlighting. I'll watch this though and look at transitioning to this once highlighting support is available.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : I recently modified the DefaultSolrHighlighter to support external > : fields, but is there a way to do this for solr itself? I'm looking to > : store a field in an external store and give Solr access to that field. > : Where in Solr would I do this? > > it depends on when/how you want to use that enternal info. (the > performance characteristics of "use this data when highlighting N docs > being returned" vs "use this data when finding N matching docs out of the > entire index" are extremely differnet) > > If you are particularly interested in a highlighting type use case, you > may want to take a look at the work Yonik & Ryan recently did adding a > mechanism for a type of plugin (DocTransformer) that can modify documents > that are being returned... > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1566 > > -Hoss >
