determine which value produced a hit in SOLR multivalued field type2

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With new Solr versions, the latest stable version being 3.5.0, Is there any Solr feature present to identify the multivalued field that has caused the hit.

For Ex: 
<field name="id">ID</field>
<field name="field1">Term1</field>
<field name="field1">value2</field>
<field name="field1">Term2</field>

If I perform a search,

qf=field1&q=Term

Is there a way I can know that the values Term1 and Term2 caused the hit from the result returned from Solr ?

Uh, fetch the value of the field itself? or depending on what you have in mind, fetching facets (see Solr faceting) may help. — Jesvin Jose
What is your use case? Maybe a change in the schema would be more relevant than a solution to this particular question. — jpountz

jpountz jpountz · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-01T22:17:55

Something you could try is playing with Analyzer#getPositionIncrementGap and IndexReader#getTermVectors to compute which field1 instance contained Term.

For example, if you have less than 10 field1 instances, and if every instance has less than 100 terms, then using a positionIncrementGap of 10*100=1000 will help you compute which field contained Term using position % 1000.

Please note that you must enable term vectors (with positions) at indexing time to be able to do this.

Beware that this is a hack, although I could use it for testing, I would probably not do this in any serious software.

determine which value produced a hit in SOLR multivalued field type2

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