On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Jon Baer <jonb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry I know this exists ...
>
> "If an API supports chunking (when the dataset is too large) multiple calls
> need to be made to complete the process. XPathEntityprocessor supports this
> with a transformer. If transformer returns a row which contains a field *
> $hasMore* with a the value "true" the Processor makes another request with
> the same url template (The actual value is recomputed before invoking ). A
> transformer can pass a totally new url too for the next call by returning a
> row which contains a field *$nextUrl* whose value must be the complete url
> for the next call."
>
> But is there a true example of it's use somewhere?  Im trying to figure out
> if I know before import that I have 56 "pages" to index how to set this up
> properly.  (And how to set it up if pages need to be determined by
> something
> in the feed, etc).
>

No, there is no example (yet). You'll put the url with variables for the
corresponding 'start' and 'count' parameters and a custom transformer can
specify if another request needs to be made. I know it's not much to go on.
I'll try to write some documentation on the wiki.

SOLR-994 might be interesting to you. I haven't been able to look at the
patch though.

 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-994
-- 
Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.

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