Imagine that up till now your application stores information about companies – not much information, just unique identification and the company name. But now, your client wants to store the location of the companies. In addition to that, your users would like to sort by distance and filter by distance from a given point. Is this doable with Solr? Of course it is and this recipe will show you how to do it.
For the purpose of this recipe, let's create a sample index structure. To do this, describe the companies that we store in the index with three fields which are defined as follows (add this to your
schema.xmlfile to the field definition section):<field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" /> <field name="name" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="location" type="location" indexed="true" stored="true" />
Next we will also add one dynamic field (add this to your
schema...