4.17. Nested Documents
Nested Documents provides the ability to add documents inside of other documents in a parent/child relationship.
The nested documents need to be indexed along with the parent one and cannot be updated individually. Though nested documents will appear as individual ones in the index. Resolving the parent child relation is done at query query time.
To indicate a property should be treated as nested object it has to be annotated with either @o.a.s.c.solrj.beans.Field(child=true) or @o.s.d.s.core.mapping.ChildDocument.
public class Book {
@Id String id;
@Indexed("type_s") String type;
@Indexed("title_t") String title;
@Indexed("author_s") String author;
@Indexed("publisher_s") String publisher;
@ChildDocument List<Review> reviews;
// setters and getters ...
}
public class Review {
@Id String id;
@Indexed("type_s") String type;
@Indexed("review_dt") Date date;
@Indexed("stars_i") int stars;
@Indexed("author_s") String author;
@Indexed("comment_t") String comment;
}| Multiple child documents can be associated with a prarent one, or just use the domain type to store a single relation ship. | |
Note that the nested document also needs to have an unique id assigned. |
Assuming Book#type is book, and Review#type resolves to review retrieving Book with its child relations reviews can be done by altering the fl query parameter.
Query query = new SimpleQuery(where("id").is("theWayOfKings"));
query.addProjectionOnField(new SimpleField("*"));
query.addProjectionOnField(new SimpleField("[child parentFilter=type_s:book]"));
return solrTemplate.queryForObject("books", query, Book.class);| The parent filter always defines the complete set of parent documents in the index, not the one for a single document. |