Dynamic fields

Overview

from the documentation: http://outoftime.github.com/sunspot/docs/classes/Sunspot.html#M000001

Let’s take this problem : "We have a category named ‘Fruit’ with values of ‘Banana’, ‘Apple’, ‘Orange’, and ‘Grape’.
On the search results page, ‘Fruit’ should be displayed as a facet category with
counts for matches for ‘Banana’, ‘Apple’, ‘Orange’, and ‘Grape’ on any text field of the document. "

class MyClass 
  searchable do 
    dynamic_integer :custom_category_ids, :multiple => true do 
      custom_categories.inject(Hash.new { |h, k| h[k] = [] }) do |map, custom_category| 
        map[custom_category.id] << custom_category_values_for(custom_category)
        map
      end 
    end 
  end 
end 
search = MyClass.search do 
  dynamic(:custom_categories) do 
    facet(some_custom_category.id) 
  end 
end 
facet = search.facet(:custom_categories, some_custom_category.id)

Excerpted from this conversation

Sunspot modifies field names in a regular way while indexing and searching from ruby hash-parameters.

Were you to query a Sunspot-indexed record using a lower-level library like RSolr, you might see:

rsolr.select(:q=>"*:*")['response']['docs'].first.keys
# => ["updated_at_ds", "highest_score_is", "title_texts", "id"]

Notes

• you can’t define a dynamic_text field. Hence, it is not possible to do a fulltext search on dynamic fields.
• id is magic… solr needs
• do not change primary key field

How to

• allowing OPTION of non-dynamic indexing by indexing through request_handlers in solrconfig.xml