sorting results

2007-11-01 Thread vanderkerkoff
sorry to be a numptie but can someone tell me how I change my results sort mechanism? It currently gives back the results ordered by highest ID first, which relates to last item entered or edited. I'd like it to sort alpha on the Title field instead. I'm using solr 1.1 and the example solr inst

Re: solr locked itself out

2007-09-17 Thread vanderkerkoff
I found another post that suggested editing the unlockonstartup value in solrconfig.xml. Is that a wise idea? I'm attaching my .xml config file as well as it might shed some light on the matter http://www.nabble.com/file/p12735259/solrconfig.xml solrconfig.xml -- View this message in contex

solr locked itself out

2007-09-17 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hello everyone. I've been reading some posts on this forum and I thought it best to start my own post as our situation is different from evveryone elses, isn't it always :-) We've got a django powered website that has solr as it's search engine. We're using the example solr application and star

Re: DeleteByQuery python syntax for delte all

2007-07-19 Thread vanderkerkoff
roopesh, thank you very much roopesh-2 wrote: > > This should work : > c.deleteByQyery('id:[* TO *]') > c.commit() > > Regards > Roopesh > > vanderkerkoff wrote: >> Hello everyone >> >> Loving solr, got an idiot question for you. >

DeleteByQuery python syntax for delte all

2007-07-19 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hello everyone Loving solr, got an idiot question for you. I have been manually deleting our index in the python interpretor when testing from solr import SolrConnection c = SolrConnection(host='localhost:8983', persistent=False) allgone = '[ * : * ]' c.deleteByQuery(query=allgone) c.commit(opt

Re: Deleting from index via web

2007-07-12 Thread vanderkerkoff
I/my boss and me worked it out. The delete funtion in solr.py looks like this def delete(self, id): xstr = ''+self.escapeVal(`id`)+'' return self.doUpdateXML(xstr) As we're not passing an integer it get's all c*nty booby, technical term. So if I rewrite the delete to be like this def

Re: Deleting from index via web

2007-07-12 Thread vanderkerkoff
ok, I'm now printing out the xstr variable that the delete in solr.py uses when it's trying to delete. it's coming out like this 'news:39' Those quotes look suspicious Going to work out how to switch more debugging on in solr now so I can see what's going on exactly -- View this message in con

Re: Deleting from index via web

2007-07-12 Thread vanderkerkoff
Different tactic now adding like this idstring = "news:%s"; % self.id c.add(id=idstring,url_t=e_url,body_t=body4solr,title_t=title4solr,summary_t=summary4solr,contact_name_t=contactname4solr) c.commit(optimize=True) Goes in fine, search results show an ID of news:36 Delete like this delidstri

Re: Deleting from index via web

2007-07-12 Thread vanderkerkoff
Done some more digging about this here's my delete code def delete(self): from solr import SolrConnection c = SolrConnection(host='localhost:8983', persistent=False) e_url = '/news/' + self.created_at.strftime("%Y/%m/%d") + '/' + self.slug e_url = e_url.encode('as

Deleting from index via web

2007-07-12 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hello everyone We're adding records to our 1.1 index through django and python like so, using the jetty app. This is in the save definition. from solr import SolrConnection c = SolrConnection(host='localhost:8983', persistent=False) c.add(id=e_url,url_t=e_url,body_t=body4solr,title_t=title4solr,

Re: problems getting data into solr index

2007-06-21 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hi Mike, Brian Thanks for helping with this, and for clearing up my misunderstanding. Solr the python module and Solr the package being two different things, I've got you. The issues I have are compounded by the fact that we're hovering between using the Unicode branch of Django and the older b

Re: problems getting data into solr index

2007-06-20 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hello Mike, Brian My brain is approcahing saturation point and I'm reading these two opinoins as opposing each other. I'm sure I'm reading it incorrectly, but they seem to contradict each other. Are they? Brian Whitman wrote: > > Solr has no problems with proper utf8 and you don't need to do

Re: problems getting data into solr index

2007-06-18 Thread vanderkerkoff
27;s no errors that I can see, and the data is definately in the index as I can now search for it. vanderkerkoff wrote: > > > 2 little things, I'm getting an error when it's trying to optimise the > index > > AttributeError: SolrConnection instance has no attribute &#x

Re: problems getting data into solr index

2007-06-18 Thread vanderkerkoff
Cheesr Mike, read the page, it's starting to get into my brian now. Django was giving me unicode string, so I did some encoding and decoding and now the data is getting into solr, and it's simply not passing the characters that are cuasing problems, which is great. I'm going to follow the same s

Re: problems getting data into solr index

2007-06-15 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hi Mike The characters that are giving us problems are the old favourites of apostrophe's and quotes pasted from Microsoft Word into a Django Web Site. I'm not using django's newforms yet, but still using the old ones. Any help or tips or sending me off to sites to read stuff Mike I'll be gratefu

Re: problems getting data into solr index

2007-06-14 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hi Brian I've now set the mysqldb to be default charset utf8, and everything else is utf8. collation etc etc. I think I know what the problem is, and it's a really old one and I feel foolish now for not realising it earlier. Our content people are copying and pasting sh*t from word into the co

Re: problems getting data into solr index

2007-06-14 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hi Yonik Here's the output from netcat POST /solr/update HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8983 Accept-Encoding: identity Content-Length: 83 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 that looks Ok to me, but I am a bit twp you see. :-) Yonik Seeley wrote: > > On 6/13/07, vanderkerkoff <[E

Re: problems getting data into solr index

2007-06-14 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hello Hoss Thanks for replying, I tried what you suggested as the iniital step of my troubleshooting and it outputs it fine. It was what I suspected initially as well, but thanks for the advice. hossman_lucene wrote: > > > : I'm running solr1.2 and Jetty, I'm having problems looping through

problems getting data into solr index

2007-06-13 Thread vanderkerkoff
Hello everyone I'm running solr1.2 and Jetty, I'm having problems looping through a mysql database with python and putting the data into the solr index. Here's the error UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 369: ordinal not in range(128) I think that means that