Hey Joel, It's been awhile! Hope you are doing well.
The feature you are proposing reminded me of the Lucidworks work I was involved with for Lowe's Canada and how to deal with changing product prices... Whether in or out of Solr it seems like there would be a number of users who may benefit from it. Matt On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 4:11 PM Joel Bernstein <joels...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are in the process of developing large scale support for external file > fields. This is designed to accommodate very large product catalogs with a > very large number of custom price lists. It can also be applied to > inventory or other frequently changing values. The question I have is if > this is a suitable open source contribution due to certain implementation > details. > > The approach taken requires the offline processing of the files from the > documented external file format into a specific binary format. A command > line tool is being developed to process the external files. Since this > offline processing is a required data preparation step it may be outside of > the scope of Solr. But it also might fit as a module. > > I'm curious how the community feels about this as a module. > > > > Joel Bernstein > http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/ >
