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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By : Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya
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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By: Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya

Overview of this book

Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Field management


Once your primary work of field types setup is done, field definition is a small task. Just as with field types, the fields element of schema.xml holds the field definition.

Field properties

Let's first see a sample field definition:

<field name="weight" type="float" default=”0.0” indexed="true" stored="true"/>

In the preceding example, we have defined a field named weight, whose field type is float with a default value of 0.0. Moreover, the indexed as well as stored properties are explicitly set to true.

Field definitions will have these properties:

  • name: The field name. This has to be alphanumeric and can include underscore characters. It cannot begin with a digit. Reserved names should start and end with underscores (for example, _root_). Every field must have a name.
  • type: The name of the fieldType. All the fields should have a type.
  • default: The default value to be used for the field.

Fields and field types share many of the optional properties here. If there are two different...