I have read the solr book and the other book is on its way for me to read.
I need some help in the mean time.
a) Using the example solr system how do I send the word document using curl
into the system. I want to have the ID as the full path of the document.
I have tried various commands but it gives me stream errors, documents are
on one server, solr is on a second server. I would like to experiment at
home indexing all the documents on the server, giving me experience outside
work.
b) I am trying to grasp a few issues with my design, I have read the books
but I am struggling to grasp the ideas yet.
- I am using a .Net connector, which one is recommended?
- I have an aspx webpage that connects to solr, adds some extra
information to the solr query (eg client id see later) and returns the data.
Is this a normal design?
I am using a shopping trolley design. Orders are created and then comments
are added as the order is processed. I want to search all the order
information. (this is one of many indexing requirements, then there will
be a 'site search' facility.)
I want to index many database tables, I am proposing to use one SOLR
instance that indexes all the data. I will use the example TEXT field and
copydata all the extra fields I have for the tables. The SOLR book gave me
short shift on the database indexing tool, is there a good tutorial on
using SOLR with SQLServer? I have a many tables, I was also thinking I
might have to join a lot, it might be easier to create an XML output then
send that, is there pros and cons.
I am thinking that I will search client = 578 and ( text = keywords).
This way I am restricting my searches to the client signed on. Is this a
good idea? (it is secured behind my application so I am adding the extras)
I was also thinking that I would index the order notes separately from the
order, The other alternative is to multi value a note field in the order
and keep deleting it. Which is best? One way I have to keep replacing the
whole order, the other I have to some how 'join' up the notes in the
search. (more like this feature I suppose).
When you come out of the SOLR index, is it normal to map the ID to a URL,
for example id="product: 1234" => href="product.aspx?productId=1234"
in code using the return data from solr.
Hope you can help me,
Ta
Ken
