Indexing date into multiple fields

[Bernadette Houghton <be...@deakin.edu.au>]

Am very new to SOLR, so this question may seem overly basic  -

In schema.xml, I have a date field type -

    <fieldType name="date" class="solr.DateField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"/>

used by -

   <dynamicField name="*_dt" type="date"    indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
   <dynamicField name="*_mdt" type="date"    indexed="true"  stored="true" multiValued="true" />

and want to create additional indexes based on variations of the date, e.g. year, decade (which can then be used as facets). I'm assuming I need to set up another field type and apply a suitable tokenizer?? Is this correct, and if so, which tokenizer?

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Re: Indexing date into multiple fields

[Shalin Shekhar Mangar <sh...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Bernadette Houghton <
bernadette.houghton@deakin.edu.au> wrote:

> Am very new to SOLR, so this question may seem overly basic  -
>
> In schema.xml, I have a date field type -
>
>    <fieldType name="date" class="solr.DateField" sortMissingLast="true"
> omitNorms="true"/>
>
> used by -
>
>   <dynamicField name="*_dt" type="date"    indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
>   <dynamicField name="*_mdt" type="date"    indexed="true"  stored="true"
> multiValued="true" />
>
> and want to create additional indexes based on variations of the date, e.g.
> year, decade (which can then be used as facets). I'm assuming I need to set
> up another field type and apply a suitable tokenizer?? Is this correct, and
> if so, which tokenizer?
>

You can extract the year/decade prior to indexing and put into a separate
field. There is no tokenizer in Solr/Lucene which will parse dates. However,
I guess the PatternTokenizer can be used to do parse out the year etc.

-- 
Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.