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update: as I describe in the mailing list (see reply here), I found that in the solrj api, the value of a SolrInputField can be a map - it doesn't have to be a simple scalar value. If it is a map, solrj adds an additional update attribute to the field's xml element. For example, This code:

SolrInputDocument doc = new SolrInputDocument();
Map<String, String> partialUpdate = new HashMap<String, String>();
partialUpdate.put("set", "foo");
doc.addField("id", "test_123");
doc.addField("description", partialUpdate);

yields this document:

<doc boost="1.0">
    <field name="id">test_123</field>
    <field name="description" update="set">foo</field>
</doc>

In this example I used the word "set" for this additional attribute, but it doesn't work. Solr doesn't update the field as I expected. According to this link: http://solr.pl/en/2012/07/09/solr-4-0-partial-documents-update/ valid values are "set" and "add".

he key of the hash map can be one of three values:

• set - to set a field.
• add - to add to a multi-valued field.
• inc - to increment a field.

There is an example of this code in the solrj unit tests, in a method called testUpdateField.

Test Code: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/trunk/solr/solrj/src/test/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/SolrExampleTests.java

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