The first rule of Solr without Unique Key is that we don't talk about Solr without a Unique Key.
The second rule... On May 16, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > Technically, core Solr does not require a unique key. A lot of features in > Solr do require unique keys, and it is recommended that you have unique keys, > but it is not an absolute requirement. > > -- Jack Krupansky > -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Baughman > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:50 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: RE: Deleting an entry from a collection when they key has ":" in it > > Thanks for the idea.... > http://localhost:8983/solr/docrepo/update/?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery% > 3Ekey%3AD\:\\Webdocs\\sw4\\docRepo\\documents\\Hiring%20Manager\\Disciplinar > y\\asdfasdf\.docx%3C%2Fquery%3E%3C%2Fdelete%3E > > I do have :'s and \'s escaped, I believe. > > If in my schema, I have the "key" field set to indexed=false, then is that > maybe the issue? I'm going to try to set that to true and rebuild the > repository and see if that does it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Krupansky [mailto:j...@basetechnology.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:20 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Deleting an entry from a collection when they key has ":" in it > > You need to escape colons in queries, using either a backslash or enclosing > the full query term in quotes. > > In your case, you have backslashes as well in your query, which the query > parser will interpret as an escape! So, you need to escape those backslashes > as well: > > D\:\\somedir\\somefile.pdf > > or > > "D:\\somedir\\somefile.pdf" > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Baughman > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:33 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Deleting an entry from a collection when they key has ":" in it > > Hi All, > > > > I seem to be really struggling to delete an entry from a search repository > that has a ":" in the key. > > > > The key is path to the file ie, "D:\somedir\somefile.pdf". > > > > I want to use a query to delete it and I just can't seem to make it go away. > > > > I've been trying stuff lke this: > > http://localhost:8983/solr/docrepo/update/?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery% > 3Ekey%3AD\:\\Webdocs\\sw4\\docRepo\\documents\\Hiring%20Manager\\Disciplinar > y\\asdfasdf\.docx%3C%2Fquery%3E%3C%2Fdelete%3E > <http://localhost:8983/solr/docrepo/update/?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery > %3Ekey%3AD\:\\Webdocs\\sw4\\docRepo\\documents\\Hiring%20Manager\\Disciplina > ry\\asdfasdf\.docx%3C%2Fquery%3E%3C%2Fdelete%3E&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10& > indent=on> &version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on > > > > It doesn't throw an error but it doesn't delete the document either. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > Dan
