That sounds great! I'm not launching for the next few of months so I'll wait and hope that 1.3 comes out before that and just use XML while I develop the rest of the site.
Thank you! On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rusli, > > Without going into specifics, I can tell you that we're using > DataImportHandler successfully in production with many millions of documents > being imported from databases. Try it out and let us know if you face any > problems. DataImportHandler will be part of Solr 1.3 (the next release) and > may be committed quite soon after which you may not need to fiddle with > patches. > > Disclaimer: Since I'm one of the developers, I may be biased :) > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Rusli Ruslakall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I wanted to see what people think about using DataImportHandler and >> importing directly from mysql rather than with XML. >> >> I have already programmed mysql -> XML in PHP and configured Solr to >> import it when I realized I could use DataImportHandler and skip the >> XML stage. Are there any negatives of using DataImportHandler? I would >> have to use the patch that complicates the process I guess when its >> kind of tempting to try to use Solr as much vanilla as possible. >> >> What is the general method when using database information? >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. >
