I am using 4.1. I was not aware of that link. In the absence of being able to do partial updates to multi-valued fields, I just punted to delete and reindex. I'd like to see otherwise.
Many thanks Jack On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Timothy Potter <thelabd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jack, > > There was a bug for this fixed for 4.1 - which version are you on? I > remember this b/c I was on 4.0 and had to upgrade for this exact > reason. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4134 > > Tim > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Jack Park <jackp...@topicquests.org> wrote: >> From what I can read about partial updates, it will only work for >> singleton fields where you can set them to something else, or >> multi-valued fields where you can add something. I am testing on 4.1 >> >> I ran some tests to prove to me that you cannot do anything else to a >> multi-valued field, like remove a value and do a partial update on the >> whole list. It flattens the result to a comma delimited String when I >> remove a value, from >> "details": [ >> "here & there", >> "Hello there", >> "Oh Fudge" >> ], >> to this >> "details": [ >> "[here & there, Oh Fudge]" >> ], >> >> Does this meant that I must remove the entire document and re-index it? >> >> Many thanks in advance >> Jack
