Thanks for the responses guys! I looked around the wiki for an example of using DataImportHandler to iterate over a list of files and read the content into a field and didn't find anything. I agree it would be useful!
Erik Hatcher wrote: > > Using Solr Cell (ExtractingRequestHandler) which is now built into > trunk, and thus an eventual Solr 1.4 release, indexing a directory of > text (or even Word, PDF, etc) files is mostly 'out of the box'. > > It still requires scripting an iteration over all files and sending > them. Here's an example of doing that scripting using Ant and the ant- > contrib <for> and <post> tasks: > > <target name="index-docs" description="Index documents"> > <for param="filename"> > <fileset dir="${docs.dir}"/> > <sequential> > <echo>Processing @{filename}</echo> > > <post to="${solr.url}/update/extract" verbose="false" > failonerror="true"> > <prop name="stream.file" value="@{filename}"/> > <prop name="ext.resource.name" value="@{filename}"/> > <prop name="ext.idx.attr" value="false"/> > <prop name="ext.ignore.und.fl" value="true"/> > > <prop name="ext.literal.id" value="@{filename}"/> > <prop name="ext.def.fl" value="text"/> > <prop name="ext.map.title" value="title"/> > <prop name="wt" value="ruby"/> > </post> > </sequential> > </for> > </target> > > And it also should be possible, perhaps slightly easier and more built- > in to do the entire iteration using DataImportHandler's ability to > iterate over a list of files and read their contents into a field. > [an example of this on the wiki would be handy, or a pointer to it if > it doesn't already exist] > > Erik > > > On Mar 10, 2009, at 2:01 PM, KennyN wrote: > >> >> This functionality is possible 'out of the box', right? Or am I >> going to need >> to code up something that reads in the id named files and generates >> the xml >> file? >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Solr-configuration-with-Text-files-tp22438201p22440095.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Solr-configuration-with-Text-files-tp22438201p22457049.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.