I have a case where I want to documents and metadata content from a datebase. The metadata is is not a problem, but it does not appear that I can handle the document content (held as BLOBS in the database) with out-of-the-box SOLR 4.4 functionality.
I was hoping to to be able to solve this by doing something like the following: *DataImportHandler *extracts all the columns (fields), including the document (BLOB) *BlobTransformer *to extract the BLOB content *FieldReaderDataSource *as a bridge between the extracted BLOB and and Tika *TikeEntityExtractor *to extract the text and embedded metadata from the BLOB. The first problem is that "BlobTransfomer" does not appear to exist. It could be that I need to load some additional jar files, or it could be that the "BlobTransfomer" functionality is simply not part of the Solr distribution. Is there a way of handling this type of content using DataImportHandler, or do I need to write an external connector for it?
