Ryan - I just pulled Taming Text off my shelf and refreshed my memory of this
custom response writer.
While having a custom writer is a neat example, it’s unnecessary for that
particular functionality. Solr has a built-in templatable response writer, the
VelocityResponseWriter. You can see it in action for a similar suggest feature
in Solr’s example /browse interface (type “ip” and wait a second in the /browse
UI with the sample data indexed). In there is a little bit of jQuery
autocomplete plugin usage that calls back to the /terms handler, using a
suggest.vm template (in conf/velocity). The difference with the Taming Text
example is that it is returns stored fields of a standard search rather than
just raw terms; with a little adjustment you can get basically the same thing
as TT. Leveraging the Solr example (v4.10.2 for me here), I created a
conf/velocity/typeahead.vm:
<ul>
#foreach($doc in $response.results)
<li>$doc.name</li>
#end
</ul>
(the docs in the example data have a ‘name’ field)
This request
http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?q=name%3Aip*&wt=velocity&v.template=typeahead
<http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?q=name:ip*&wt=velocity&v.template=typeahead>
results in this response:
<ul>
<li>Belkin Mobile Power Cord for iPod w/ Dock</li>
<li>iPod & iPod Mini USB 2.0 Cable</li>
<li>Apple 60 GB iPod with Video Playback Black</li>
</ul>
Erik
> On Dec 6, 2014, at 2:24 AM, Ryan Yacyshyn <ryan.yacys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I'm a little stuck on building a custom query response writer. I want to
> create a response writer similar to the one explained in the book, Taming
> Text, on the TypeAheadResponseWriter. I know I need to implement the
> QueryResponseWriter, but I'm not sure where to find the Solr JAR files I
> need to include. Where can I find these?
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
