If you use Solr over HTTP, then why don't you use URL rewriting? Nginx has very powerful rewrite features and is capable of rewriting parts of the URL, no need to write and compile and deploy code.
> My organization is considering a few different approaches for indexing > vs query rewrite and I'm trying to figure out what would be required > in order to implement some form of query rewrite. Lets say my index > has 2 fields first name and last name. When the user does a query > name:bob I'd like to transform this into first_name:bob OR > last_name:bob. I know this example is trivial but our real index is > much more complex. Are there any extension points in solr for doing > such a thing? If not are there any utilities which I could use for > doing this? We are currently using the edismax query parser so I > suppose I could extend that to handle this but I'm starting from a > completely blank slate so any guidance would be appreciated.
