Very nice, Tim. But that FAST->Solr document collection transfer would also be cool to see and have/use for those lucky FAST customers who want to quickly give Solr a try with their existing data.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Timothy Garafola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:47:19 PM > Subject: Solr Perl Interface > > I recently released a simple perl wrapper module to CPAN which supplies > methods in perl for posting adds, deletes, commits, and optimizes to a > solr server. Originally I had written some simple processes to handle > this when porting a large collection of documents from FAST into SOLR. > Mark Backman and Yousef Ourabi suggested that I take this a step further > and submit something to the open source community. So now it's > available for download at via > http://search.cpan.org/author/GARAFOLA/Solr-0.03/lib/Solr.pm. > > > > As time permits, I'm adding to this. I also welcome contributions and > hope to release the first updated version in a week or so. Yousef has > stated interest in extending it to supply querying functionality. > > > > One of the things I have a need for is the ability to update by query; > something similar in functionality to SOLRs delete_by_query. Is there > anything like this already in SOLR? I'm playing with doing this in > perl by first issuing a query, parsing the returned xml into a perl > data structure, updating element values and/or extending it with dynamic > fields in the data structure, then reposting the docs returned in the > initial query. Can anyone tell me if I'm reinventing a wheel here or > suggest an alternative approach? > > > > Thanks, > > Tim Garafola > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
