: : Thanks for giving multiple options , I ll try them out both ,but last time : I checked, having "+60SECONDS" as the default value for ttl was giving me : an invalid date format exception...., I am assuming that would only be the
that's because ttl should not be a date field -- it should be a *string* (as noted in my examples) "time to live" is a date math expression that the processor will evaluate for you -- not a date. if you want to specify an explicit date, just set expire_at directly. ie: do you wnat to do the match yourself (set expire_at as a date field) or do you want the processor to do the math itself (set ttl as a string field) : > ...even if you redefined your ttl field to look like this... : > : > <field name="ttl" type="string" default="+60SECONDS" /> : > : > ...the expire_at still wouldn't be populated by the processor because : > schema field "default" values are populated *after* the processors run -- : > so when the DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory sees the documents being : > added, it has no idea that they all have a default ttl, so it doesn't know : > that you want it to compute an expire_at for you. : > : > instead of using default="" in the schema, you can use the : > DefaultValueUpdateProcessorFactory to assign it *before* the : > DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory sees the doc... : > : > <processor class="solr.DefaultValueUpdateProcessorFactory"> : > <str name="fieldName">ttl</str> : > <str name="value">+60SECONDS</str> : > </processor> -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
