Hi all, Here is what I am interested in doing: I would like to send a compressed integer bitset as a query to solr. The bitset integers represent my document ids and the results I want to get back is the facet data for those documents.
I have successfully created a QueryComponent class that, assuming it has the integer bitset, can turn that into the necessary DocSetFilter to pass to the searcher, get back the facets, etc. That part all works right now because I'm using either canned or randomly generated bitsets on the server side. What I'm unsure how to do is actually send this compressed bitset from a client to solr as part of the query. From what I can tell, the Solr API classes that are involved in handling binary data as part of a request assume that the data is a document to be added. For instance, extending ContentStreamHandlerBase requires implementing some kind of document loader and an UpdateRequestProcessorChain and a bunch of other stuff that I don't really think I should need. Is there a simpler way? Anyone tried or succeeded in doing anything similar to this? Thanks, --jay
