I'm assuming you're using the atomic update feature to update the individual field, why not use it when you replace the rest of the doc?
Best, Erick On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Shamik Bandopadhyay <sham...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently indexing a bunch of fields for a given document. For e.g. > let's assume there's a field called "rating". The rating field is not part > of the original document during index, so the value is blank. The field > gets updated by an external service when the document is rated by users. > The service makes a partial Solr update and sets the appropriate rating > value. But, when I re-index the same document, the rating fields get > over-written and reset to blank. I understand that an indexing in Solr is > delete and add, but is there a way to put a conditional indexing at the > field level, which will keep the value if its already present in the index > for a given id ? > > Any pointers will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Shamik >
