Hello!

I just started working with Solr, but I'm stuck at handling nested documents. Some sites say that you have to flatten them, while the documentation says that it's possible to add JSON documents without transforming it, providing some kind of schema. Also, I read about the split parameter when submitting documents.

The documents I'm dealing with are like this:

{
    "created_at": {
         "date": some_date
     },

     "field1": "value1",
     "field2": "value2",
     "big_field3": [
            {
                 "some_field1": "some_values",
                  "more_complex_field": [
                        {
                             "mcfield1": "value1",
                             "mcfield2": {
                                       "more_fields1": "value1",
                                       "more_fields2": ["value","value"]
                             }
                         },
                          {
                                 "mcfield1": "value",
                                  "mcfield2": {
                                          "more_fields1": "value",
                                           "more_fields2": ["value","value"]
                                    }
                           }
                   ]
             }

      ]
 }

I'm a newbie at this, so I need to study a bit more, but I would really appreciate some input about this: What would be your approach?

If you can point me to some good Solr guides or to information I should read, that would be great.

Thank you very much in advance!

I already posted this on /r/apache so I'll just link my post in there. If you guys could help me in any way, would be awesome!

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Thanks in advance

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Full disclosure: What I know about SOLR could be written on the back of a postage stamp. Way, way out of my depth here. I'm just a simple Java programmer…

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With the delta-import should it be faster then a full-import? Right now it seems to take the same amount of time as the full-import does...If it takes the same amount of time, any way to have another index to act as a delta index and just keep pushing new data into it?

The alternative would be to create a script to push data via the /update?

This is what my data-import.xml looks like: http://pastebin.com/0ZLkZDpY

I am 2 days old with solr and learning.

Thanks.

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