On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Arun Rangarajan <arunrangara...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://docs.lucidworks.com/display/solr/Working+with+External+Files+and+Processes > says > this about external file fields: > "They can be used only for function queries or display". > I understand how to use them in function queries, but how do I retrieve the > values for display? > > If I want to fetch only the values of a single external file field for a > set of primary keys, I can do: > q=_val_:"EXT_FILE_FIELD"&fq=id:(doc1 doc2 doc3)&fl=id,score > For this query, the score is the value of the external file field. > > But how to get the values for docs that match some arbitrary query?
Pseudo-fields allow you to retrieve the value for any arbitrary function per returned document. Should work here, but I haven't tried it. fl=id, score, field(EXT_FILE_FIELD) or you can alias it: fl=id, score, myfield:field(EXT_FILE_FIELD) -Yonik http://lucidworks.com
