hello all,
a new user here. I will be using solr to power the search over at freesound ( http://freesound.iua.upf.edu ). been experimenting with solr and it's damned cool :) here we go: 1. I have a minor remark about the inconsistencies in the query-parameter definitions... Sometimes multiple fields are given with comma/space-separated values, sometimes they are given by repeating the parameter: sort=field1,field2 desc,field3 but facet.field=field1&facet.field=field2 This is pretty confusing to first-hand users! :-) 2. two questions about the query syntax: is tag:(bass drum) the same as: tag:bass OR tag:drum or the same as: tag:bass AND tag:drum or neither? is "+bass +drum" essentially the same as "bass AND drum" ? I'm working on a query/parameter builder in python. It's work in progress but you can see what's been done over here: http://iua-share.upf.edu/svn/nightingale/trunk/sandbox/solr/solrquery.py it's basically a wrapper around all the parameters you can pass via the GET string to SOLR so you can do things like: q = SolrQuery() q.set_query("tag:bass") q.set_query_options(start=0, rows=10, sort=["date desc"], field_list=["id", "tag", "description"]) q.add_facet_field("author") q.add_facet_field("tag") q.set_global_facet_options(limit=20, count_missing=True) q.set_facet_options("tag", mincount=5) q.add_date_facet("date_written") q.set_global_date_facet_options(start="-2YEARS", end="-1YEARS", gap="+1MONTH", count_other=["before", "after"]) print q.get_query_string() which results in: sort=date+desc&facet.date.gap=%2B1MONTH&facet.field=author&facet.field=tag&facet.date=date_written&facet=true&facet.date.start=-2YEARS&facet.date.end=-2YEARS&fl=id%2Ctag%2Cdescription&facet.date.other=before&facet.date.other=after&rows=10&facet.missing=true&facet.limit=20&start=0&wt=json&q=tag%3Abass&f.tag.facet.mincount=5 - bram -- http://freesound.iua.upf.edu http://www.smartelectronix.com http://www.musicdsp.org
