More and more advanced search features require some sort of offline processing step (looking at your LTR ;-) ) that produces something that THEN gets deployed into Solr, so I don’t see that as a blocker.
Maybe in the future we end up having a core part of Solr some sort of offline processing capability so folks don’t have to deploy “yet another system” ;-) Price lists…. Always a pain ;-). > On Jul 27, 2022, at 9:30 PM, Matt Kuiper <kuipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Joel, > > It's been awhile! Hope you are doing well. > > The feature you are proposing reminded me of the Lucidworks work I was > involved with for Lowe's Canada and how to deal with changing product > prices... Whether in or out of Solr it seems like there would be a number > of users who may benefit from it. > > Matt > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 4:11 PM Joel Bernstein <joels...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We are in the process of developing large scale support for external file >> fields. This is designed to accommodate very large product catalogs with a >> very large number of custom price lists. It can also be applied to >> inventory or other frequently changing values. The question I have is if >> this is a suitable open source contribution due to certain implementation >> details. >> >> The approach taken requires the offline processing of the files from the >> documented external file format into a specific binary format. A command >> line tool is being developed to process the external files. Since this >> offline processing is a required data preparation step it may be outside of >> the scope of Solr. But it also might fit as a module. >> >> I'm curious how the community feels about this as a module. >> >> >> >> Joel Bernstein >> http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/ >> _______________________ Eric Pugh | Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | http://www.opensourceconnections.com <http://www.opensourceconnections.com/> | My Free/Busy <http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed <https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of whether attachments are marked as such.
