: I am planning to build a rules engine on top search. The rules are database : driven and can't be stored inside solr indexes. These rules would ultimately : two do things - : : 1. Change the order of Lucene hits. : 2. Add/remove some results to/from the Lucene hits. : : What should be my starting point? Custom search handler?
This smells like an XY problem ... can you elaborate on the types of rules/conditions/situations when you want #1 and #2 listed above to happen? http://people.apache.org/~hossman/#xyproblem XY Problem Your question appears to be an "XY Problem" ... that is: you are dealing with "X", you are assuming "Y" will help you, and you are asking about "Y" without giving more details about the "X" so that we can understand the full issue. Perhaps the best solution doesn't involve "Y" at all? See Also: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341 -Hoss
