Hi Marc, Have you considered using ExternalFileField for this? On Aug 2, 2013 11:54 AM, "Marc Brette" <marc.bre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > I would like to completely populate a field for all the documents in the > index, without re-indexing the documents. > > I know Solr supports 'Atomic Update', but this is no a real incremental > update of a document: it costs as much as re-indexing the document (and > require to store the document). > As Solr does not support a real incremental update, I wondered if that > would be easier to completely re-populate a field (i.e. easier than > inserting/modifying in the middle of a field index). > > My use-case is the following: > - I have an index with a bunch of documents. > - A background process computes some additional metadata for the documents. > It produces metadata in batch for all the documents. > - These metadata are added in bulk to the existing index. > > Any ideas? Let me know if this is more a question for the dev list. > > Thanks, > Marc >
