[SOLR-14802] Sorting by min of two geodist functions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.7
• Component/s: spatial
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: Shaun Storey
• Created: 01/Sep/20 17:52
• Updated: 04/Nov/20 15:21
• Resolved: 21/Sep/20 03:36

Description

Previously using geo field with type LatLonType you could implement a query like

/select?q=*:*&fl=ID&fq={!geofilt}&d=50&pt=53.4721936,-2.24703&sfield=MAIN_LOCATION&sort=min(geodist(), geodist(ALT_LOCATION,53.4721936,-2.24703)) asc

to sort results on minium distance from multiple different locations. Moving the fields to advised LatLonPointSpatialField gives

"geodist() does not support field names in its arguments when stated fields are solr.LatLonPointSpatialField spatial type, requires sfield param instead"

This has been reviewed before SOLR-11601 but not for my actual actual use-case so it seems the choice was to just change the error message rather than to implement the previous functionality. Can this be re-reviewed or let me know if there is another way to achieve the same result.

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1875