[Brug-talk] Ferret - sphinx - Solr

[Peter De Berdt (10-forward)]

On 23 Jan 2008, at 23:19, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:

> I am now working my way through the Sphinx 0.9.8 config file to put  
> more details
> in it than the default test1 / documents example and bumped into  
> this. From the
> last line (about backwards compatibility), I may understand that  
> this is a new
> feature in the 0.9.8 version.

You're right, I saw the allow_star config parameter and had set it,  
but with no result. I must have made a mistake somewhere.

Which brings me to a new problem: indexing virtual attributes, both  
on the main record and related records.

It does happen quite often for us that certain fields are stored in  
English in the database (by internal convention), but should be  
stored as the combination of all available languages in the  
application in the index. E.g. the database will hold a boolean  
"published" which will be set to either true or false, but the index  
holds "gepubliceerd published publié". I know I could use a  
before_save filter to save the virtual attribute to the database and  
then index it that way, but it's something I'd really rather avoid.  
This is just a basic example, but there are cases that would be more  
complex.

Have I missed something here or is it effectively impossible to use  
one of the sphinx plugins to include virtual attributes in the index?

Best regards.


Peter De Berdt

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