Hi, I am using riak to store (relatively large) text files. I store them as normal riak objects where the value is the text of the file. Now I want to index and search them. All is fine, I just enabled the "standard" search pre-commit hook for that bucket and they get indexed nicely. But, there is one tricky requirement. I need to be able to index and search some metadata about these files. For example date of submission, size of file, type (internal business logic) of file etc.
I have been thinking quite a lot about this recently. Asked several times on #riak. I got one answer suggesting that I create a second "metadata" riak object for each file, link it to the "file object" and index it separately. That's not really what I want, because I need to be able to execute "combined" queries, like value:<some word> AND date:<some date>. So, here is the ideal solution that I'm thinking about.... It would be great if it's possible to modify the riak search index object. After the file is submitted, and after it's indexed, I could just fetch the index and just add some more fields to it. I see there is a bucket with the search index objects that's automatically created by riak search. So I guess it is indeed possible, though I don't know what to expect. Is it a good idea? If not, what else could I do in order to solve the problem? Regards, Metin
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