Document fields in script

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Hi,

Can someone please explain what "document fields" are when it comes to
custom_score scripts? I have a field 'foo' with store=yes which I would
like to base my custom score on. I also have "_source" : {"enabled" :
false} set. I can access the field using _fields['foo'].value but that
is too slow. In the docs it says " Document fields are very fast to
access since they end up being loaded into memory" so I would like to
use that instead but when I try doc['foo'].value I get a
"PropertyAccessException[[Error: null pointer" error. So how can I make
my field a "document field"?

Thanks
/Niklas

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Yes, using doc will cause accessing the loaded field from memory (you don't
need to store it in this case). Not sure why you get the failure though,
can you gist a curl repro?

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Niklas Therning niklas@therning.orgwrote:

Hi,

Can someone please explain what "document fields" are when it comes to
custom_score scripts? I have a field 'foo' with store=yes which I would
like to base my custom score on. I also have "_source" : {"enabled" :
false} set. I can access the field using _fields['foo'].value but that is
too slow. In the docs it says " Document fields are very fast to access
since they end up being loaded into memory" so I would like to use that
instead but when I try doc['foo'].value I get a
"PropertyAccessException[[Error: null pointer" error. So how can I make my
field a "document field"?

Thanks
/Niklas

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I had index="no" on the field. Changing it to "not_analyzed" did the trick.

On 2012-06-14 23:35, Shay Banon wrote:

Yes, using doc will cause accessing the loaded field from memory (you
don't need to store it in this case). Not sure why you get the failure
though, can you gist a curl repro?

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Niklas Therning <niklas@therning.org
mailto:niklas@therning.org> wrote:

Hi,

Can someone please explain what "document fields" are when it
comes to custom_score scripts? I have a field 'foo' with store=yes
which I would like to base my custom score on. I also have
"_source" : {"enabled" : false} set. I can access the field using
_fields['foo'].value but that is too slow. In the docs it says "
Document fields are very fast to access since they end up being
loaded into memory" so I would like to use that instead but when I
try doc['foo'].value I get a "PropertyAccessException[[Error: null
pointer" error. So how can I make my field a "document field"?

Thanks
/Niklas