Indexing and Searching accross renamed fields should allow to use each field more than once

[sunspot]

Indexing and Searching accross renamed fields should allow to use each field more than once

[alindeman]

Can you instead do something like this?

text :description do
  [desc_lvl1, desc_lvl2]
end

[abkonsta]

I don't think so (just tried it to verify). The actual database field is "description", desc_lvl1 and desc_lvl2 are 'fakes' that I am trying to map "description" to, so I can index it in two different ways.

Only workaround so far is to treat them as different fields and carry two (or more) copies of this field in the database.

[alindeman]

Ahhh, I got my wires crossed. :as is the field name in Solr. For some reason I was thinking it was the method you wanted called to get the data from your model.

You'll want to do something like this:

searchable do
  text(:description_1, :as => :desc_lvl1) { description }
  text(:description_2, :as => :desc_lvl2) { description }
end

or use copyField on the Solr side: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml#Copy_Fields

[abkonsta]

Your response did give me a few ideas and here is what worked

    text :desc_sic_lvl1, :as => :desc_sic_lvl1 do
      description
    end
    text :srch_sic_lvl1, :as => :srch_sic_lvl1 do
      search_text
    end
    text :desc_sic_lvl2, :as => :desc_sic_lvl2 do
      description
    end
    text :srch_sic_lvl2, :as => :srch_sic_lvl2 do
      search_text
    end

but what I thought was interesting is that the following syntax does NOT work:

    text :desc_sic_lvl1, :as => :desc_sic_lvl1 { description }
    . . .

[alindeman]

You'll need parens around text if you want to use { }, yah. Ruby can't really tell the difference between a Hash and a Proc otherwise.

[alindeman]

Can I close this issue?

[abkonsta]

yes with { } it should be

text(:desc_sic_lvl1, :as => :desc_sic_lvl1, :boost => 3.0) { description }
text(:desc_sic_lvl2, :as => :desc_sic_lvl2, :boost => 1.0) { description }

So, not an issue after all, just me being a bit thick!

[alindeman]

Glad you got it working :)