This is a great idea! I could see this as a use case for a number of different integrations and an example would be very helpful for anyone looking to do this.
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Stefan Seifert <[email protected]> wrote: > hello dirk. > > i think such a feature would be very useful. integration of an external > search engine on a "higher level" than the oak-level search integration is > a common use case in our projects as well. it's important to be quite > flexible what is indexed and what not and how it's indexed - for best match > of the business requirements and the special features of the targeted > search engine. > > stefan > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Dirk Rudolph [mailto:[email protected]] > >Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:45 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Sling to Solr integration using Sling Content Distribution > > > >Hi devs, > > > >Recently I was evaluating if it is easily possible to integrate Sling into > >Solr using Sling Content Distributions and made some great progress here: > > > >https://github.com/Buuhuu/sling-content-distribution-solr > ><https://github.com/Buuhuu/sling-content-distribution-solr> > > > >The repository explains the goal, the why and who also giving instructions > >on how to use it. To sum it up a bit: > > > >- SCD’s features map perfectly fine to the requirements when integrating > >into solr > >- It enables us to ingest content on business perspective (not technical > >perspective as with Oak’s internal indexes) > >- It’s flexible (thanks for that already :) > > > >Though there are some things that require a bit of attention to make it > >work out of the box. I opened a couple of issues for that: > > > >SLING-7357 > >SLING-7358 > >SLING-7359 > >SLING-7360 > >SLING-7364 > > > >And made proposals accordingly (not for the last one as I want to discuss > >that first) > > > >So my general question is: > > > >Is integrating Sling into Solr (or potentially any other kind of system > >that offers APIs to do so) a valid and envisaged use-case for Sling > Content > >Distribution? And if so would it make sense to implement a module for lets > >say Solr as example directly in Sling? > > > >If so I would volunteer to propose something for that but I think flexibly > >integrating Sling as framework for any kind of content driven web > >applications into Solr as enterprise search application would be a nice > >feature to offer. > > > >Thanks for any kind of feedback, > > > >/Dirk >
