Hello, I may need to add functionality to Solr's admin pages. The functionality that I'm looking to add is the ability to trigger certain indexing functions and monitor their progress. I'm wondering if people have thoughts about the best way to do this. Here are my initial ideas:
1. Add additional admin screens/JSPs, make them call custom classes that trigger indexing (e.g. go to a DB, retrieve some data, index it, maybe optimize when done), have that execute in a separate thread, and have these classes call Solr via custom HTTP requests that report progress, so that this progress/status can be viewed through another admin page for monitoring of this stuff. 2. Forget about triggering things from the UI. Write generic/command-line-type classes, have them invoked independently of Solr, but still have them call Solr via custom HTTP requests that report progress, so that this progress/status can be viewed through another admin page for monitoring of this stuff. I like 1, because everything is contained in Solr, but I fear it may be hard to maintain this extended version with Solr, unless the stuff I write ends up being generic enough that I can contribute it back. I guess 2 would have some of these problems because I'd still need an admin page for monitoring. Any thoughts? Has anyone already envisioned a good way to extend Solr's functionality with custom admin screens? Thanks, Otis
