There's no BlobTransformer in DataImportHandler. You'll have to write one. Also, you'd probably need to write a FieldInputStreamDataSource instead of FieldReaderDataSource.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Raymond Wiker <rwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
