Chris Hostetter <hossman_lucene <at> fucit.org> writes: > > > : is it possible to store (text) payload to numeric fields (class > : solr.TrieDoubleField)? My goal is to store measure units to numeric > : features - e.g. '1.5 cm' - and to use faceted search with these fields. > : But the field type doesn't allow analyzers to add the payload data. I > : want to avoid database access to load the units. I'm using Solr 4.2 . > > I'm not sure if it's possible to add payloads to Trie fields, but even if > there is i don't think you really want that for your usecase -- i think it > would make a lot more sense to normalize your units so you do consistent > sorting, range queries, and faceting on the values regardless of wether > it's 100cm or 1000mm or 1m. > > -Hoss > >
Hoss, What you suggest may be fine for specific units. But for monetary values with formatting it is not realistic. $10,000.00 would require formatting the number to display it. It would be much easier to store the string as a payload with the formatted value. Peter Lenahan
