Re: new user: some questions about parameters and query syntax

[Yonik Seeley <yo...@apache.org>]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Chris Hostetter
<ho...@fucit.org> wrote:
> The only reason *any* existing solr params use comma or white space
> seperated lists is because way, way, WAY back in the day [...]

I dunno...  for something like "fl", it still seems a bit verbose to
list every field separately.
Some of these things feel like trade offs in ease of readability &
manually typing of URLs vs ease of programmatic manipulation.

-Yonik

Re: new user: some questions about parameters and query syntax

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: I dunno...  for something like "fl", it still seems a bit verbose to
: list every field separately.
: Some of these things feel like trade offs in ease of readability &
: manually typing of URLs vs ease of programmatic manipulation.

I don't even think the primary issue is programmatic manipulation ... it's 
ease of readability and manual typing vs a need for external mapping of 
internal field names to external field labels.  even the simplest use 
cases of Solr almost allways need some external mapping from field labels 
they display to end users and field names that are used in the schema ... 
it would be really nice if that wasn't actually neccessary.

just making fl a multivalued field wouldn't get you far enough obviously, 
you'd also need some aliasing mechanism to deal with field names 
for sorting vs field names for quering, and in many cases you have to 
worry about whether your field names contain characters the 
standard QueryParser considers special (like whitespace) but it would 
certainly be nice to say...
  q=*:*&fl=Product+Id&fl=Product+Name&fl=Sales+Price





-Hoss