Transformers do not see what's in the Solr index, they are too early
in the processing chain.
You could probably do something by exporting that field's value,
caching it and injecting it back with transformer from that cache.
Messy but doable.
UpdateRequestProcessor would be able to do it, but your request from
DIH is coming as a new document, not an update. So the old one would
be overidden.
SOLR-9530 could be an answer to that, but it is just a design so far -
no implementation. You could write one yourself or see if showing
excitement on the JIRA and being ready to debug the patch would get
the committer's attention.
Regards,
Alex.
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On 26 September 2016 at 17:36, Selvam <s.selvams...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We use DataImportHandler to import data from Redshift. We want to overwrite
> some 250M existing records (that has around 350 columns) while retaining
> the field value of only one column in those 250M records. The reason is,
> that one column is a multi-valued and requires a costly query to build that
> values again.
>
> I learned about Transformers, I am not sure if it is possible to get the
> old document value during that process. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Selvam
