I have a particular use case that I think might require a custom field type, however I am having trouble getting the plugin to work. My use case has to do with genetics data, and we are running into several situations were we need to be able to query multiple regions of a chromosome (or gene, or other object types). All that really boils down to is being able to give a number, e.g. 10234, and return documents that have regions containing the number. So you'd have a document with a list like ["10000:16090","400:8000","40123:43564"], and it should come back because 10234 falls between "10000:16090". If there is a better or easier way to do this please speak up. I'd rather not have to use a "join" on another index, because 1) it's more complex to set up, and 2) we might need to join against something else and you can only do one join at a time.
Anyway… I tried creating a field type similar to a PointType just to see if I could get one working. I added the following jars to get it to compile: apache-solr-core-4.0.0,lucene-core-4.0.0,lucene-queries-4.0.0,apache-solr-solrj-4.0.0. I am running solr 4.0.0 on jetty, and put my jar file in a sharedLib folder, and specified it in my solr.xml (I have multiple cores). After starting up solr, I got the line that it picked up the jar: INFO: Adding 'file:/blah/blah/lib/CustomPlugins.jar' to classloader But I get this error about it not being able to find the AbstractSubTypeFieldType class. Here is the first bit of the trace: SEVERE: null:java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/solr/schema/AbstractSubTypeFieldType at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:791) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) ...etc… Any hints as to what I did wrong? I can provide source code, or a fuller stack trace, config settings, etc. Also, I did try to unpack the solr.war, stick my jar in WEB-INF/lib, then repack. However, when I did that, I get a NoClassDefFoundError for my plugin itself. Thanks, Kevin The information in this email, including attachments, may be confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). If you believe you received this email by mistake, please notify the sender by return email as soon as possible.
