On 9/27/06, Vish D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just noticed that link on the first reply from Yonik about FederatedSearch. I see that a lot of thought went in to it. I guess the question to ask would be, any progress on it, Yonik? :)
No code, but great progress at shooting holes in various strategies ;-) I'm currently thinking about doing federated search at a higher level, with slightly modified standard request handlers, and another top-level request handler that can combine requests. The biggest downside: no custom query handlers. The other option: do federated search like a lucene MultiSearcher... (a federated version of the SolrIndexSearcher). The downside is that existing interfaces would not be usable... we can't be shipping tons of BitDocSets across the network. Things like highlighting, federated search, etc, would need to be pushed down into this interface. New interfaces means lots of changes to request handler code. Upside would be that custom request handlers would still work and be automatically parallelized. Anyone have any thoughts on this stuff? http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FederatedSearch -Yonik
