Hi Alexandre, They can be used to store arbitrary data, to tweak scoring. e.g. you can give higher boost to adjectives may be.
example schema.xml has <fieldtype name="payloads" http://searchhub.org/2009/08/05/getting-started-with-payloads/ http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/2010/08/using-payloads-with-dismaxqparser-in.html --- On Fri, 12/28/12, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> > Subject: What does SOLR actually do with Payloads? > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Friday, December 28, 2012, 11:25 PM > Hello, > > I am trying to figure out payloads and , as far as I can > tell, Solr does > not actually do anything with them. > > Wiki says that they can be generated, but nothing seems to > use them for > anything. This mailing list had 4 or 5 questions on payloads > in last six > months and nobody answered those. > > So, is there there some sort of end-to-end path/example of > using them or > are they there just because Lucene has them and people have > to write custom > code to use them? > > Regards, > Alex. > Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch > - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from > happening all at > once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. > (Anonymous - via GTD book) >
