Thanks Erik. That's what I did in the end and it works great. I thought I'd need to create a custom response to remove unnecessary fields but was able to make the request return pretty much only what I need, even adding omitHeader=true. I'm using the EdgeNGramFilterFactory during indexing on the title field, and then returning the just the title on the matching set.
For example, a call to http://localhost:8983/solr/movies/suggest_movie?q=sav, will return: { "response": { "numFound": 2, "start": 0, "docs": [ { "title": "Saving Private Ryan" }, { "title": "Into the Breach: 'Saving Private Ryan'" } ] } } Thanks for your help! Ryan On Sun Dec 07 2014 at 7:14:23 AM Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wouldn’t personally do anything custom for JSON - but rather just pull > out what you need client-side (and make the request such that it doesn’t > return more than you need). Doing a custom JSON format for this would > limit your later flexibility in case you wanted to get different pieces of > the response, possibly. Also, if you had your own custom JSON format > writer it could become problematic later on if Solr’s internal APIs changed > and you needed to upgrade (or worse, maintain multiple versions). > > Erik > > > On Dec 6, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Ryan Yacyshyn <ryan.yacys...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 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 < > 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 > <mailto: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/ < > 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 > >
