Hi Erik, Wow that's great. Thanks for the explanation, I tried using the VelocityResponseWriter with your template provided and it worked as expected, makes sense!
What if I want to return a custom JSON response back, rather than HTML for auto-suggesting? I'm thinking about using Twitter's typeahead jQuery plugin <https://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/examples/#custom-templates> and passing it JSON, and have a template on the front-end to the autosuggest. Ryan On Sat Dec 06 2014 at 3:41:38 AM Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
