Thank you Jack, I just realized that perhaps ignored was a bad example. But if I understood correctly, then I can specify multiValued on the type and not do so on the field itself and I still get multiValued entries.
That's good to know. 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) On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote: > Specifying an attribute on the field type makes it the default for any > field of that type. > > Setting multiValued=true on "ignored" simply allows it to be used for any > field, whether it is single or multi-valued, and any source data, whether > it has one or multiple values for that ignored field. Otherwise, you would > get an error if multiple values were given for an ignored field which had > no multiValued attribute, while the stated goal is to simply ignore the > field and its incoming values. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Alexandre Rafalovitch > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:20 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: What is the difference in defining multiValued on field and or > fieldtype? > > > Hello, > > I was looking at the 'ignored' field in the example's schema.xml and > suddenly noticed that its field type has multiValued=true in the > definition. Wiki confirms that it is possible, but does not explains. > > What's the difference between defining it on the type and on the field > itself? Because example has it defined on both. > > I am confused suddenly, because we now have permutation of 9 different > values (true/false/missing ^ 2) and I am not sure what the exact semantics > is. > > I am mostly interested in fieldType/@multiValued=true impact, but curious > about the other permutations. > > Thanks, > Alex. > > Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ > LinkedIn: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/**alexandrerafalovitch<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) >
