Hi
I would like to know if there are suggestions on how I can handle my
task below. Please pardon the lengthy description.
I need to store product attributes in a collection.
Attributes like Size, Color, Material etc.
Each product can have up to max of 5 attributes.
Between products, their attributes can be different.
Attribute can be added and deleted from the source system.
A simple example of possible product attributes information
Product Attribute Value
P1 Size M
P1 Size L
P1 Color Red
P2 Size M
P2 Color Blue
P3 Material Plastic
P4 Amp 12
I have come up with 2 approaches to it:
1.
If I store each attribute as a field in a collection, there will be alot
of fields to create.
Furthermore as attribute can be added and deleted, the maintaining of
the attributes fields in solr will be difficult.
However with each field for each attribute the product attribute facets
will be easy and straight forward.
Example,
Size facet:
M - 2
L - 1
Color facet:
Red - 1
Blue - 1
2.
Another approach is to create only a field to store the attributes and
attributes value of a product.
This field will be multi-value.
Solr does not need to bother with new attribute and deleted attribute.
Eg. P_ProductAttribute
P1:
<arr name="P_ProductAttribute">
<str>Size-M</str>
<str>Size-L</str>
<str>Color-Red</str>
</arr>
However the product attribute facet with this approach will required the
UI to iterate through the facet, extract the attributes and their values
to display as individual attribute facet in the search result page.
Eg, of P_ProductAttribute facet:
Color-Blue>1
Color-Red>1
Size-L>1
Size-M>2
Any other suggestion on how I can approach this?
Regards,
Derek
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