External File Field in Apache Solr

Question

I\'ve been trying to use ExternalFileField in ApacheSolr for external scoring.

I\'m using the example config. Basically I want to set scores for items using their

Answer 1

Alright, so I had the same problem. This is what I did:

1. Create a file:
   solr_home/PROJECT/multicore/core1/data/external_popularProducts.txt

   The file should contain values like this:
   uniqueID_in_core=count

   Example:
   873728721=19
842728342=20

2. Update schema.xml, add this under <types> </types>
<fieldType name="popularProductsFile" keyField="key" defVal="0" stored="true" indexed="true" class="solr.ExternalFileField" valType="float" />

   Here, key is the column name for the primaryID of solr core.
   Add this under <fields></fields>
<field name="popularProducts" type="popularProductsFile" indexed="true" stored="true" />

3. Reload the core. I am using solr4.3 which has a bug. When I try to reload any core,the solrcloud node goes down. SOLR-4805: SolrCloud - RELOAD on collections or cores leaves collection offline and unusable till restart . So, I had to restart my solrcloud nodes.

4. Query: http://SOLR_NODE:8983/solr/core1/select?q=ipad&sort=popularProducts desc

Note:
Most of the blogs written about ExternalFileField are not completely accurate. So just refer to the original documentation:

1. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_3_1/solr-core/org/apache/solr/schema/ExternalFileField.html .
2. http://docs.lucidworks.com/display/solr/Working+with+External+Files+and+Processes

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