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Noble Paul commented on SOLR-5017: ---------------------------------- bq.Having to specify extra information is what seems odd to me, and greatly complicates clients. We already pass extra info if the lookup is not by id. lookup by id is a small feature for a solr. > Allow sharding based on the value of a field > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-5017 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5017 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Noble Paul > Assignee: Noble Paul > > We should be able to create a collection where sharding is done based on the > value of a given field > collections can be created with shardField=fieldName, which will be persisted > in DocCollection in ZK > implicit DocRouter would look at this field instead of _shard_ field > CompositeIdDocRouter can also use this field instead of looking at the id > field. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org