> Why would you store the actual images in SOLR? No, the images are files on the filesystem. Only the path to the image should be stored in Solr.
> And you are most likely looking at dynamic fields as the solution > > 1) Define *_Path, *_Size, *_Alt as a dynamic field with appropriate types > 2) During indexing, write those properties as Image_1_Path, > Image_1_Size, Image_1_Alt or some such > 3) Make sure that whatever search algorithm you have looks at those or > do a copyField to aggregate them into AllImage_Alt, etc. I was also thinking of a solution with dynamic fields, but I am very new to Solr and I am not sure if it is a good solution to solve this modelling issue. For example I thought about introducing two multiValued dynamic fields (image_src_*, image_alt_*) and store image data like file path on disc and alt-attribute like this: title: An article about Foo and Bar content: This is some text about Foo and Bar. published: 2012.09.07T19:23 image_src_1: 2012/09/foo.png image_alt_1: Foo. Waiting for the bus. image_src_2: 2012/04/images/bar.png image_src_3: 2012/02/abc.png image_alt_3: Foo and Bar at the beach Of course a alt attribute for some images could be missing. I don't know if this is a good or better solution for this. It feels clumsy to me, like a workaround. But maybe this is the way to model this data, I don't know?
