Question

I am newbie to solr. So please bear with me.

Use cases

• User can share his photos to friends or publicly or make it private.
• User can search for people or photos(he should view only public photos, shared with him).

I have denormalized my relational data to solr schema. I have merged the user object & photo object into solr schema

So,

• If user jack (user 3) is searching for “picnic” He shouldn’t see the photo_1 but see photo_2.
• If user venu is searching for “picnic” He should see the photo_1 and photo_2.

How can I force solr to look into friends_ids, share_level field? can I do with facet.field? Is dynamic fields work for this case? I have read some tutorials but I am not getting clear picture.

Hope you guys shed some light on this. So that I can take forward. I hope this should be possible.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You should have a string field for share_level, with possible value of private, public, friends.

You should also have a multiValued field for friends_ids,
and it should store each user id instead of the current CSV format

NOTE: you should revised this column type, NEVER use CSV in mysql, use a proper entity relationship

So, once you have the field ready, and complete the reindex,
to search for photo will be just:

+name:$search +(share_level:public (+share_level:friends +friends_ids:$uid))

$search = picnic
$uid = 3 (jack)