Hello As per several postings I noted that I can define variables inside an invariants list section of the DIH handler of solrconfig.xml:-
<requestHandler name="/dataimport" class="org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandler"> <lst name="defaults"> <str name="config">data-config.xml</str> </lst> <lst name="invariants"> <str name="finstalldir">/Volumes/spare/ts</str> </lst> </requestHandler> I can also reference these variables within data-config.xml. This works, the solr field "test" is nicely populated. However how do I use this variable within my regex transformer? Here is my data-config.xml:- <dataConfig> <dataSource name="myfilereader" type="FileDataSource"/> <document> <entity name="jc" processor="FileListEntityProcessor" fileName="^.*\.xml$" newerThan="'NOW-1000DAYS'" recursive="true" rootEntity="false" dataSource="null" baseDir="/Volumes/spare/ts/fords/dtd/fordsxml/data"> <entity name="x" dataSource="myfilereader" processor="XPathEntityProcessor" url="${jc.fileAbsolutePath}" stream="false" forEach="/record" transformer="DateFormatTransformer,TemplateTransformer,RegexTransformer,HTMLStripTransformer"> <field column="fileAbsolutePath" template="${jc.fileAbsolutePath}" /> <field column="fileWebPath" regex="${dataimporter.request.finstalldir}(.*)" replaceWith="$1" sourceColName="fileAbsolutePath"/> <field column="test" template="${dataimporter.request.finstalldir}" /> <field column="title" xpath="/record/title" /> <field column="para" xpath="/record/sect1/para" stripHTML="true" /> <field column="date" xpath="/record/metadata/da...@qualifier='Date']" dateTimeFormat="yyyyMMdd" /> </entity> </entity> </document> </dataConfig> indexing my content I get an error as follows:- INFO: SolrDeletionPolicy.onInit: commits:num=2 commit{dir=/Volumes/spare/ts/solrnightlyjanes/data/index,segFN=segments_7,version=1233583868834,generation=7,filenames=[_7.frq, _4.fdt, _7.tii, _7.fnm, _4.fdx, _7.tis, segments_7, _7.nrm, _7.prx] commit{dir=/Volumes/spare/ts/solrnightlyjanes/data/index,segFN=segments_8,version=1233583868835,generation=8,filenames=[segments_8] Feb 2, 2009 5:00:50 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrDeletionPolicy updateCommits INFO: last commit = 1233583868835 Feb 2, 2009 5:00:57 PM org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.EntityProcessorBase applyTransformer WARNING: transformer threw error java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal repetition near index 0 ${dataimporter.request.finstalldir}(.*) ^ at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1650) at java.util.regex.Pattern.closure(Pattern.java:2706) at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:1798) at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1687) at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1397) at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1124) at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:817) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.RegexTransformer.getPattern(RegexTransformer.java:129) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.RegexTransformer.process(RegexTransformer.java:88) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.RegexTransformer.transformRow(RegexTransformer.java:74) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.RegexTransformer.transformRow(RegexTransformer.java:42) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.EntityProcessorBase.applyTransformer(EntityProcessorBase.java:187) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.XPathEntityProcessor.fetchNextRow(XPathEntityProcessor.java:197) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.XPathEntityProcessor.nextRow(XPathEntityProcessor.java:160) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.buildDocument(DocBuilder.java:333) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.buildDocument(DocBuilder.java:359) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.doFullDump(DocBuilder.java:222) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DocBuilder.execute(DocBuilder.java:155) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.doFullImport(DataImporter.java:324) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.runCmd(DataImporter.java:384) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter$1.run(DataImporter.java:365) Is there some simple escape or other syntax to be used or is this an enhancement? Regards Fergus. -- =============================================================== Fergus McMenemie Email:fer...@twig.me.uk Techmore Ltd Phone:(UK) 07721 376021 Unix/Mac/Intranets Analyst Programmer ===============================================================