Hi Fabio
There isn't really a better option given - CRCs are the best way forward, sadly.
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Pat
On 03/08/2011, at 3:10 AM, Fabio Yamate wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I search for some topics related to MVA but couldn't find a solution
> for it. Reading TS code and docs, I found that facets uses CRC32 due
> to a limitation with strings.
>
> So I took this idea to query over MVA with string values, this is my
> scenario:
>
> class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
> belongs_to :post
>
> validates_presence_of :name
> end
>
> class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
> has_many :categories
>
> define_index do
> indexes :title
>
> has categories(:name), :as => :category_crcs, :crc => true
> end
> end
>
> So, since sphinx doesn't accept string as a type for MVA (only uint or
> timestamp), I convert every input to its crc value, so I can query as
> a integer.
>
> Post.search :with => { :category_crcs => "Some Category".to_crc32 }
>
> And it works.
>
> Is there any better option?
>
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