Markus, as we are all volunteers here, nobody is paid to write code and documentation. Everybody scratches their own itch. Complaining won't do a lot of good here.
Most of Solr is not meant to be consumed as an API and therefore there is a general lack of javadocs. Solr is generally used through configuration and consumed over HTTP so you will find a lot of documentation on each of the supported features. There is a lot of documentation on the wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/solr . However the use-case you have is quite rare and therefore not very well documented. However, you will find that people are helpful if you are willing to give them a chance. Starting a conversation in this tone will be a disadvantage. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:14 PM, psyron <m...@psyron.com> wrote: > > I read a bit "Lucene in action" with a lot of nice example and was very > optimistic to use solr, but i was really disappointed when I was looking > for > documentation for solr - even the javadoc is very poor, no explanation of > the framework, about why there are so many different classes with similar > names, everything is just confusing! > I think, if somebody would have invested 1% of the time creating solr in > his > documentation, solr could be very easely used by everyone. > I am not an expert in search engine, and i also don't think that the > framework of solr is so complicated, but without documentation I just feel > lost. > > What i really want to do is a kind of "custom sorting" very similar to > that > "DistanceComparator" example from "Lucene in Action", but there is really > no > examples out there how to do that... > > I admit, my own code most of time is not looking much better, but for such > a > big project i really expected much more documentation and comments for the > api. > > Thanks, > Markus > > > jrodenburg wrote: > > > > I was checking around the solr site and pages at apache.org and wasn't > > finding much. Before jumping into the code, I'd like to get as familiar > > with solr as I could from existing docs or the like. Can someone point > me > > in the direction? > > > > thanks, > > jeff r. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Documentation--tp4403595p21029243.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
