> > One thing I thought about is if I can define my own > DocumentObjectBinder, so I can concatenate my entity names with the > IDs in the XML creation. > > Anyone knows if something like this can be done without modifying > Solrj sources? Is there any injection or plugin mecanism for this? > More details on the use-case please.
Cheers Avlesh On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Christian López Espínola < penyask...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Israel, > > Thanks for your suggestion, > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Israel Ekpo <israele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Christian López Espínola < > > penyask...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, my name is Christian and I'm a newbie introducing to solr (and > solrj). > >> > >> I'm working on a website where I want to index multiple entities, like > >> Book or Magazine. > >> The issue I'm facing is both of them have an attribute ID, which I > >> want to use as the uniqueKey on my schema, so I cannot identify > >> uniquely a document (because ID is saved in a database too, and it's > >> autonumeric). > >> > >> I'm sure that this is a common pattern, but I don't find the way of > solving > >> it. > >> > >> How do you usually solve this? Thanks in advance. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Christian López Espínola <penyaskito> > >> > > > > Hi Christian, > > > > It looks like you are bringing in data to Solr from a database where > there > > are two separate tables. > > > > One for *Books* and another one for *Magazines*. > > > > If this is the case, you could define your uniqueKey element in Solr > schema > > to be a "string" instead of an integer then you can still load documents > > from both the books and magazines database tables but your could prefix > the > > uniqueKey field with "B" for books and "M" for magazines > > > > Like so : > > > > <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" > > required="true"/> > > > > <uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey> > > > > Then when loading the books or magazines into Solr you can create the > > documents with id fields like this > > > > <add> > > <doc> > > <field name="id">B14000</field> > > </doc> > > <doc> > > <field name="id">M14000</field> > > </doc> > > <doc> > > <field name="id">B14001</field> > > </doc> > > <doc> > > <field name="id">M14001</field> > > </doc> > > </add> > > > > I hope this helps > > This was my first thought, but in practice there isn't Book and > Magazine, but about 50 different entities, so I'm using the Field > annotation of solrj for simplifying my code (it manages for me the XML > creation, etc). > One thing I thought about is if I can define my own > DocumentObjectBinder, so I can concatenate my entity names with the > IDs in the XML creation. > > Anyone knows if something like this can be done without modifying > Solrj sources? Is there any injection or plugin mecanism for this? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > "Good Enough" is not good enough. > > To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. > > Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once. > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Christian López Espínola <penyaskito> >
