On Jun 28, 2006, at 3:39 PM, UpAndGone wrote:
I was just planning to write a web service like front-end to Lucene
when I
heard of this project. Are there any examples on integrating Solr
yet? I see
the wiki section, but it is empty. How can I trigger solr, say from
my Java
app without using curl?
My indexer currently does this to post to Solr from Java:
private void postToSolr(String xml) throws IOException {
// System.out.println("-------------");
// System.out.println("xml = " + xml);
// System.out.println("-------------");
PostMethod post = new PostMethod("http://localhost:8983/solr/
update");
post.setRequestEntity(new StringRequestEntity(xml));
post.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
// Execute request
try {
int result = httpclient.executeMethod(post);
String response = post.getResponseBodyAsString();
// System.out.println(response);
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("status=\\\"(\\d*)\\\">(.*)\
\<\\/result\\>", Pattern.DOTALL);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(response);
while (matcher.find()) {
String status = matcher.group(1);
String message = matcher.group(2);
if (!"0".equals(status)) {
throw new IOException(message);
}
}
} finally {
// Release current connection to the connection pool once you
are done
post.releaseConnection();
}
}
postToSolr("<commit/>"); // for example
My error checking is lame though, mainly because Solr doesn't (or
didn't?) send an HTTP error response when bad things happened in a
request handler for instance.
I've been too lazy (well, ok, swamped) to pull out this flakey custom
hacked code with this much more elegant and robust API contributed
here <http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-20>. This will be
incorporated in Solr's codebase in some form when we figure out where
to put it, how to distributed it, and document it. If you use it,
feedback on it would be appreciated.
Erik
