Celebird, thanks for posting the correct solution first. I have posted the
reply without fully reading your answer.
Cheers,
Alex

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:

> this expression has a bug. Attributes are multi-valued, so writing: x == 
> "foo" doesn't work as it compares a set of values x with a single string. You 
> first need to project the set to a single string and then you can compare 
> this string with the given literal. Tthe only way to do this is via the join 
> operator (which concatenates all string values to a single string -- it's 
> arbitrary for attributes that appear multiple times, but it works fine for 
> attributes that appear only once).
> This query should work:   snippets?bq=[upc(text): "885909174966"]|"Apple 
> MacBook Pro"&orderby= [x=upc(text): if exists(x) & (join(x) == 
> "885909174966") then 1 else 0]
>
> URL encoded form:
>
>   
> snippets?bq=%5Bupc(text)%3A+%22885909174966%22%5D%7C%22Apple+MacBook+Pro%22&orderby=+%5Bx%3Dupc(text)%3A+if+exists(x)+%26+(join(x)+%3D%3D+%22885909174966%22)+then+1+else+0%5D
>
> All credit for the answer goes to a colleague of mine who figured out what
> the problem is.
>
> Alex
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Celebird <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> i believe orderby can only sort numeric values regardless
>> of attribute-name-and-type or custom-ranking-criteria --
>> ignoring modification-time and relevancy values.
>>
>> a custom-ranking-criteria to meet your requirements
>> would probably need to take this into account -- e.g.
>>
>> snippets?bq=[upc:"885909174966"]|"Apple MacBook Pro"&
>> orderby=[x=upc(text):if join(x)=="885909174966" then 1 else 0]
>> >>
>>
>

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