[SOLR-3045] eDismax: Allow virtual fields

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: search
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jan Høydahl
• Created: 18/Jan/12 14:33
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 28/Jan/12 00:13

Description

Imagine a one-field yellow page search using eDisMax across fields

qf=firstname middlename lastname companyname category^10.0 subcategory products address street zip city^5.0 state

Now this of course works well. But what if I want to offer my users fielded search on "who", "what" and "where".
A way to do this now is copyField into three new fields with these names. But then you lose the internal weight between the sub fields.
A more elegant way would be allowing virtual field names mapping to multiple fields, so user can search where:london and match address, street, zip, city or state automatically.

Issue Links

• depends upon: SOLR-3026 eDismax: Locking down which fields can be explicitly queried (user fields aka uf)
• is part of: SOLR-2368 Improve extended dismax (edismax) parser
• is part of: SOLR-3026 eDismax: Locking down which fields can be explicitly queried (user fields aka uf)