Thanks for the quick response, Grant.
We tried it and it seems to work. The confusion stemmed from the fact that the wiki states that the parameter is not used - there are also comments in the test cases for the handler that say: //TODO: stop using locally defined fields once stream.file and stream.body start working everywhere So wanted to confirm. > From: gsing...@apache.org > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: ExtractingRequestHandler and local files > Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:50:43 -0400 > > I haven't tried it, but I thought the enableRemoteStreaming stuff > should work. That stuff is handled by Solr in other places, if I > recall correctly. Have you tried it? > > -Grant > > On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:28 PM, doraiswamy thirumalai wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I would greatly appreciate a quick response to this question. > > > > Is there a means of passing a local file to the > > ExtractingRequestHandler (as the enableRemoteStreaming/stream.file > > option does with the other handlers) so the file contents can > > directly be read from the local disk versus going over HTTP? > > > > Per the Solr wiki entry for ExtractingRequestHandler, > > enableRemoteStreaming is not used? > > > > This is also a tad confusing because the Ruby example off: > > http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/02/17/acts_as_solr_cell/ > > explicitly recommends setting this parameter? > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. > > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290 > > > > > -------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://www.lucidimagination.com/ > > Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) > using Solr/Lucene: > http://www.lucidimagination.com/search > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ SkyDrive™: Get 25 GB of free online storage. http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_SD_25GB_062009