> > a) Since Solr is built on top of lucene, using SolrJ, can I still directly > create custom documents, specify the field specifics etc (indexed, stored > etc) and then map POJOs to those documents, simular to just using the > straight lucene API? > > b) I took a quick look at the SolrJ javadocs but did not see anything in > there that allowed me to customize if a field is stored, indexed, not > indexed etc. How do I do that with SolrJ without having to go directly to > the lucene apis? > > c) The SolrJ beans package. By annotating a POJO with @Field, how exactly > does SolrJ treat that field? Indexed/stored, or just indexed? Is there any > other way to control this? > The answer to all your questions above is the magical file called schema.xml. For more read here - http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml. SolrJ is simply a java client to access (read and update from) the solr server.
c) If I create a custom index outside of Solr using straight lucene, is it > easy to import a pre-exisiting lucene index into a Solr Server? > As long as the Lucene index matches the definitions in your schema you can use the same index. The data however needs to copied into a predictable location inside SOLR_HOME. Cheers Avlesh On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:26 AM, yz5od2 <woods5242-outdo...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Hi, > I am new to Solr but fairly advanced with lucene. > > In the past I have created custom Lucene search engines that indexed > objects in a Java application, so my background is coming from this > requirement > > a) Since Solr is built on top of lucene, using SolrJ, can I still directly > create custom documents, specify the field specifics etc (indexed, stored > etc) and then map POJOs to those documents, simular to just using the > straight lucene API? > > b) I took a quick look at the SolrJ javadocs but did not see anything in > there that allowed me to customize if a field is stored, indexed, not > indexed etc. How do I do that with SolrJ without having to go directly to > the lucene apis? > > c) The SolrJ beans package. By annotating a POJO with @Field, how exactly > does SolrJ treat that field? Indexed/stored, or just indexed? Is there any > other way to control this? > > c) If I create a custom index outside of Solr using straight lucene, is it > easy to import a pre-exisiting lucene index into a Solr Server? > > thanks! >
