In the end lucene stores stuff as strings.
Even if you do store your data as map FieldType , Solr May not be able
to treat it like a map.
So it is fine to put is the map as one single string
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Stephane Bailliez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm looking for ideas about how to best deal with a situation where I need
> to deal with storing key/values pairs in the index for consumption in the
> client.
>
>
> Typical example would be to have a document with multiple genres where for
> simplicity reasons i'd like to send both the 'id' and the 'human readable
> label' (might not be the best example since one would immediatly say 'what
> about localization', but in that case assume it's an entity such as company
> name or a person name).
>
> So say I have
>
> field1 = { 'key1':'this is value1', 'key2':'this is value2' }
>
>
> I was thinking the easiest (not the prettiest) solution would be to store it
> as effectively a string 'key:this is the value' and then have the client
> deal with this 'format' and then parse it based on '<key>:<value>' pattern
>
> Another alternative I was thinking may have been to use a custom field that
> effectively would make the field value as a map key/value for the writer but
> I'm not so sure it can really be done, haven't investigated that one deeply.
>
> Any feedback would be welcome, solution might even be simpler and cleaner
> than what I'm mentioning above, but my brain is mushy in the last couple of
> weeks.
>
> -- stephane
>
>
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--Noble Paul
