Re: how to pronounce solr

[Jon Gorman]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Charles Federspiel
 wrote:
> Hi,
> My company is evaluating different open-source indexing and search software
> and we are seriously considering Solr.
> One of my collegues pronounces it differently than I do and I have no basis
> of correcting him.
> Is Solr pronounced "SOLerrr"(emphasis on first syllable), or pirate-like,
> "SolAhhRrr" (emphasis on the R).
>
> This coworker has just come from a big meeting with various managers where
> the technology came up and I'm afraid my battle over this very important
> matter may already have been lost.
> thank you,


It's pronounced Solar.  However you choose to pronounce solar, of
course, is up to you or your regionalism.  But that's what explains
the sun logo and people who make puns about solr energy. ;).

It's also the third question in the FAQ
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ#head-0076d43a3911cf40a231e9ecf7df5303ccee0dc7.
 Just in case you need documented proof to argue your point.  Unless
of course you wanted it to be a pirate word.

Perhaps you should send him or her an eye-patch in case a correction
in this matter would hurt the collegues' feelings.  On second thought,
maybe not.

Jon Gorman

Re: Adding new Fields ?

[Jon Gorman]

I think at least you need to review your import process.  If nothing
indexed, there's going to be nothing that matched.  We need a little
more information.  Stuff like a short but concise test sample of what
you're trying to index, how you're submitting the http request and the
commit request (you did commit, right?), what messages you're getting
when you do index and then commit.

I didn't look too closely at your last code example, but I would
recommend using some XML libraries.  If I remember it didn't.

Most folks seem to process xml files for indexing by using the source
xml files to create new files just for indexing.  There's an
identifier, which is usually used to link back to the source xml file
in the application you design.

Jon Gorman