Hi Mark and Barry,

Is there any documentation on using SOLR directly and bypassing the cf
tags?  I did previously look at the official SOLR
documentation.....and sad is correct :)

Cheers
Mark

On Feb 8, 3:32 pm, Barry Chesterman <barrychester...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the built in CF tags for using SOLR are not that nice, they are fine for
> basic stuff but if you really want to use SOLR as it was intended you
> really have to query it directly (it's just an HTTP request and then XML
> parsing from there).
> The coldfusion tags for querying SOLR lack a lot of options and it doesn't
> let you specify specific properties.
> The other downside about SOLR is the sad documentation (although it's not
> as sad as verity documentation, lol)
>
> I've used both and I found SOLR much more powerful and useful but it wasn't
> as easy to learn.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.man...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've done a fair amount of standalone SOLR work, and it's pretty awesome.
> > TBH I've never gone near the integrated version, as using it standalone has
> > so much more to it than what is exposed by CF.
>
> > Mark
>
> > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Mark Picker 
> > <mark.pic...@det.nsw.edu.au>wrote:
>
> >> Hi Steve,
>
> >> I had a similar issue when using type="Internet" which would return
> >> "Error executing query: unknown_handler_internet".  I was pointed to
> >> this on the Adobe bug tracker:
> >>http://cfbugs.adobe.com/cfbugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#...
>
> >> I'm not liking SOLR all that much.  I'm finding that Verity was much
> >> smarter in the way it built the summary (not to mention SOLR creates a
> >> much shorter summary).  Whenever someone mentions how good SOLR is
> >> over Verity it seems that they are always using their own install of
> >> SOLR and not the built in one.....or at least not using the CF tags to
> >> index and search.
>
> >> Cheers
> >> Mark
>
> >> On Feb 7, 2:42 pm, "Steve Onnis" <st...@cfcentral.com.au> wrote:
> >> > Has anyone seen this error?
>
> >> > Error executing query : unknown_handler_natural
>
> >> > It is a Solr collection. The collection created fine but i cant search
> >> it.
>
> >> > Steve
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