Thanks Yonik,
Basically, I am indexing a number of items where the unique ID is a
URL. Because URL's can contain invalid XML characters, and I will be
doing some XSLT postprocessing, I was thinking that a good way to
solve the problem would be to store these unique ID's as md5's instead.
I think I found another alternative - it follows the pre-processing
avenue you suggested.
Best Regards.
--Nuno
On 23 Jul 2007, at 18:25, Yonik Seeley wrote:
On 7/23/07, Nuno Leitao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like to be able to compute and store the MD5 sum for a given
text in a field (in my case, I am talking about a URL string). For
example, if I have a field called 'url' the following would happen:
'http://wiki.apache.org' -> 'cb4f7e6ca1a0c00b146894b75d9f98dc'
First, what are you trying to achieve by this? If you give people the
higher level problem, they might be able to suggest a better way.
Since you construct the XML document to send to Solr,
simply compute the MD5 and add that also:
<field name="url">http://wiki.apache.org</field>
<field name="urlMD5">cb4f7e6ca1a0c00b146894b75d9f98dc</field>
Or did you want to store the MD5 instead of the URL? Did you want it
searchable somehow?
-Yonik
