updates on the server

[James O'Rourke]

Is there a way to pass the solr server a set of documents without all  
the fields present and only update the fields that are provided  
leaving the remaining document fields intact or do I need to pull  
those documents over the wire myself and do the update manual and  
then add them back to the index?


James

question regarding sorting

[James O'Rourke]

I am having strange behaviour experimenting with the example solr  
server. Via the tutorial - except I set up my own schema. Anyway,  
here's the issue - if I provide the explicit sort param in my  
request, the sort does not seem to execute, however if I have the  
encoded sort via using ; field desc for example, sorting does work.  
Is this expected behaviour? Is there something I'm missing.


Eg;

This does not sort:

http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?indent=onq=24sort=lastmodified% 
20descfl=uniquekey,lastmodified


This does:

http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?indent=onq=24;%20lastmodified% 
20ascfl=uniquekey,lastmodified


Anyone know why?

James