I'm pretty sure that Solr only checks whether a field is multivalued at the point at which it receives the second value for a specific field. In your <arr> entry below, you only provided one value, so Solr wouldn't complain. Add another <str> line to your <arr>, and I bet you it will moan at you.
Upayavira On Wed, Nov 14, 2012, at 09:17 AM, Peter Kirk wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for the reply. It is strange, because when I index to a field > defined like: > > <dynamicField indexed="true" > name="*_string" > stored="true" > type="string" /> > > Then the results I receive are like: > > <arr name="category_string"> > <str>Woodland</str> > </arr> > > Which seems to indicate a multivalued field. > > If I change the field definition, so I explicitly say multivalued is > false: > > <dynamicField indexed="true" > name="*_string" > stored="true" > type="string" > multivalued="false" /> > > Then the result is like: > > <str name="category_string">Woodland</str> > > > /Peter > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeevanandam Madanagopal [mailto:je...@myjeeva.com] > Sent: 14. november 2012 10:11 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Multivalued or not > > Hello Peter - > > In Solr 3.6 multiValued is false by default. > > Since Schema version 1.1 onwards multiValued attribute value is false by > default (<field ...>, <dynamicField ...>, <fieldType ...>) > > -Jeeva > Blog: http://www.myjeeva.com > > > On Nov 14, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Peter Kirk <p...@alpha-solutions.dk> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > In Solr 3.6, is multivalued for fields, default true or false? > > > > It appears that it is default false for normal fields, and default true for > > dynamic fields - is that correct? > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > > > > > >
