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[jira] [Updated] (SOLR-9279) Add greater than, less than, etc in Solr function queries

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9279?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Doug Turnbull updated SOLR-9279:
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    Description: 
If you use the "if" function query, you'll often expect to be able to use greater than/less than functions. For example, you might want to boost books written in the past 7 years. Unfortunately, there's no "greater than" function query that will return non-zero when the lhs > rhs. Instead to get this, you need to create really awkward function queries like I do here (http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2014/11/26/stepwise-date-boosting-in-solr/):

if(min(0,sub(ms(mydatefield),sub(ms(NOW),315569259747))),0.8,1)

The pull request attached to this Jira adds the following function queries
(https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/49)

-gt(lhs, rhs) (returns 1 if lhs > rhs, 0 otherwise)
-lt(lhs, rhs) (returns 1 if lhs < rhs, 0 otherwise)
-gte
-lte
-eq

So instead of 

if(min(0,sub(ms(mydatefield),sub(ms(NOW),315569259747))),0.8,1)

one could now write

if(lt(ms(mydatefield),315569259747,0.8,1)

(if mydatefield < 315569259747 then 0.8 else 1)

A bit more readable and less puzzling


  was:
If you use the "if" function query, you'll often expect to be able to use greater than/less than functions. For example, you might want to boost books written in the past 7 years. Unfortunately, there's no "greater than" function query that will return non-zero when the lhs > rhs. Instead to get this, you need to create really awkward function queries like I do here (http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2014/11/26/stepwise-date-boosting-in-solr/):

if(min(0,sub(ms(mydatefield),sub(ms(NOW),315569259747))),0.8,1)

The pull request to be attached to this Jira adds the following function queries

-gt(lhs, rhs) (returns 1 if lhs > rhs, 0 otherwise)
-lt(lhs, rhs) (returns 1 if lhs < rhs, 0 otherwise)
-gte
-lte
-eq

So instead of 

if(min(0,sub(ms(mydatefield),sub(ms(NOW),315569259747))),0.8,1)

one could now write

if(lt(ms(mydatefield),315569259747,0.8,1)

(if mydatefield < 315569259747 then 0.8 else 1)

A bit more readable and less puzzling



> Add greater than, less than, etc in Solr function queries
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-9279
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9279
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>      Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public) 
>          Components: search
>            Reporter: Doug Turnbull
>             Fix For: master (7.0)
>
>
> If you use the "if" function query, you'll often expect to be able to use greater than/less than functions. For example, you might want to boost books written in the past 7 years. Unfortunately, there's no "greater than" function query that will return non-zero when the lhs > rhs. Instead to get this, you need to create really awkward function queries like I do here (http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2014/11/26/stepwise-date-boosting-in-solr/):
> if(min(0,sub(ms(mydatefield),sub(ms(NOW),315569259747))),0.8,1)
> The pull request attached to this Jira adds the following function queries
> (https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/49)
> -gt(lhs, rhs) (returns 1 if lhs > rhs, 0 otherwise)
> -lt(lhs, rhs) (returns 1 if lhs < rhs, 0 otherwise)
> -gte
> -lte
> -eq
> So instead of 
> if(min(0,sub(ms(mydatefield),sub(ms(NOW),315569259747))),0.8,1)
> one could now write
> if(lt(ms(mydatefield),315569259747,0.8,1)
> (if mydatefield < 315569259747 then 0.8 else 1)
> A bit more readable and less puzzling



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