Updating a field isn't straightforward. Changing size from string to int would, if you don't re-index, break your index. The schema tells Slr how to interpret the binary bits it finds in the index. If there are no bits in the index for that field name, then no issue. If there already are bits in the index, changing the schema will cause Solr to get confused when those bits are returned from the index in the results of a query.
It seems to me that you could get away with using dynamic fields. Start with size_s, which is a string field. Then, start adding a size_i field to your index. It is a new field containing the integer version. Because of the dynamic fields definitions in the schema, these fields would not require schema editing or core reloads. If you, however, want every document in tier index to have the integer size value, you will need to update those documents, adding that new field(and skipping/removing the string one if no-longer needed). Hope this helps. Upayavira On Sat, Sep 28, 2013, at 04:38 PM, bengates wrote: > Haha, > > Thanks for your reply, that's what I'll do then. > > Unfortunately I can speak Java as well as I can speak ancient Chinese in > Sign Language... ^^ > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Update-field-properties-via-Schema-Rest-API-tp4087907p4092507.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
