Hi, I'm trying to implement a custom UpdateRequestProcessorFactory class that works with the XSLT Request handler for indexing. My UpdateRequestProcessorFactory has to examine some of the document fields and compare them against some regular expressions that are stored in an external MySQL database. Currently, my UpdateRequestProcessorFactory works by establishing a connection to the database and them retrieving the regular expressions for every new document that needs to be indexed.
However, I would like to speed up this processing and store the regular expressions in memory. I tried to define a new user cache in solrconfig.xml (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCaching#User.2BAC8-Generic_Caches). As far as I understand, these caches can be used to store any user application data. But when I implement the UpdateRequestProcessorFactory, I do not arrive to access this cache. What would be the method to read/write into a user defined sorl cache while indexing? How can I access the current SolrIndexSearcher from my code? Are there any other solutions that I should look at? Thanks! Iana
