Hi, It will be good to have a such option/switch. I was using RemoveBlankFieldUpdateProcessorFactory to clean empty fields in the past.
Thanks, Ahmet On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 7:44 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: Sorry, I should be more clear. I'm talking about the "Metadata adjuster" transformation connector, as described here: http://manifoldcf.apache.org/release/trunk/en_US/end-user-documentation.html#metadataadjuster The source code is found under connectors/forcedmetadata. Karl On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: It just occurred to me that maybe we can put this functionality in the Field Mapping transformation connector, controlled by a checkbox. That would make everyone happy I think. > >Karl > > > >On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Alessandro Benedetti ><[email protected]> wrote: > >I will copy here my consideration : >> >> >>"So you have 2 scenarios for a field : you have content or you don't. >>Introducing empty field you can have strange behaviours solr sides because >>from the human point of view there is no difference between an empty or a >>null field, but for solr yes, and the proper way to model a field that >>doesn't have content is to not add the field at all to the document. >>Introducing empty field can lead to inconsistent behaviour mainly sorting >>side, or when you want to retrieve documents that have value for that field ( >>in this case indexing empty fields you are introducing false positive for >>that search)" >>Curious to see others opinions and discuss ! >> >> >>Cheers >> >> >>2014-10-07 17:28 GMT+01:00 Karl Wright <[email protected]>: >> >>Hi folks, >>> >>>We're considering, for MCF 2.0, having the Solr connector not index empty >>>fields -- just skip them entirely. This is not backwards-compatible >>>behavior, for a number of reasons: >>> >>>(1) If the field whose value is blank is marked as "required" in >>>solrschema.xml, Solr will reject the document, where before it would have >>>allowed it to be indexed; >>>(2) Queries which make a distinction between no field and an empty field >>>will no longer work the same way. >>> >>>Can I request a show of hands (figuratively) of how many people this change >>>might affect? >>> >>>Thanks! >>>Karl >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >>-- >> >>-------------------------- >> >>Benedetti Alessandro >>Visiting card : http://about.me/alessandro_benedetti >> >>"Tyger, tyger burning bright >>In the forests of the night, >>What immortal hand or eye >>Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" >> >>William Blake - Songs of Experience -1794 England >
