Federated Search

2007-02-27 Thread Tim Patton
I just downloaded Solr to try out, it seems like it will replace a ton of code I've written. I saw a few posts about the FederatedSearch and skimmed the ideas at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FederatedSearch. The project I am working on has several Lucene indexes 20-40GB in size spread among a

Casting Exception with Similarity

2007-03-01 Thread Tim Patton
I'm trying toconvert some of my code over to Solr, but I keep getting class cast exceptions when I try to use my own similarity class, like this: Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: dealcatcher.kolinka.lucene.similarity.T estSimilarity cannot be cast to org.apache.lucene.search.Similarity

Re: Casting Exception with Similarity

2007-03-02 Thread Tim Patton
Chris, I figured out my problem. My own jar must be in the examples/solr/lib directory (which does not exist in the download). I found a hint to this on the mailing list. The docs don't indicate this anywhere promenant. Perhaps the lib directory should exist in the default download in the

Re: Federated Search

2007-03-05 Thread Tim Patton
Venkatesh Seetharam wrote: Hi Tim, Howdy. I saw your post on Solr newsgroup and caught my attention. I'm working on a similar problem for searching a vault of over 100 million XML documents. I already have the encoding part done using Hadoop and Lucene. It works like a charm. I create N in

Re[2]: Federated Search

2007-03-05 Thread Tim Patton
Jack L wrote: This is very interesting discussion. I have a few question while reading Tim and Venkatesh's email: To Tim: 1. is there any reason you don't want to use HTTP? Since solr has an HTTP interface already, I suppose using HTTP is the simplest way to communicate the solr servers

Re: Casting Exception with Similarity

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Patton
Chris Hostetter wrote: : I figured out my problem. My own jar must be in the examples/solr/lib : directory (which does not exist in the download). I found a hint to : this on the mailing list. The docs don't indicate this anywhere : promenant. Perhaps the lib directory should exist in the d

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Federated Search

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Patton
he nodes in the cluster and hence did not need any change to Lucene. I plan to index using Lucene/Hadoop and use Solr as the partition searcher and a broker which would merge the results and return 'em. Thanks, Venkatesh On 3/5/07, Tim Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Venkatesh Seet

Re: Casting Exception with Similarity

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Patton
Sweet, looks like someone beat me to it. Tim Chris Hostetter wrote: : : Makes sense, I guess I was looking for a mention in the online : documentation for the xml file where it mentions how to specify your own : similarity. Somehow I never stumbled on the other two spots. Hmmm... you mean ht