Hi,
I just wanted to share with the list an issue that I have faced working
with FeaturedSearch REST service within ContentHub. I have been
developing a Java Client for ContentHub services and I think that
FeaturedSearch RESTful API documentation should be clarified.
Specifically, one of the request parameters is a Solr query String.
According to the documentation, this parameter is " /the string format
which is accepted by a Solr server. For example, q="john doe"&fl=score"
/The format of the example query is consistent with the String that you
get with SolrQuery.getQuery method in Solrj library and it's also
consistent with a Solr GET request URL query. The problem is that this
string seems not to be consistent with SolrQuerySintax [1], so, it is
not a valid String query for building a SolrQuery from the raw String
with Solrj. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that FeaturedSearch
implementation is directly building a SolrQuery from the solrQuery
String parameter of the service.
I have done several tests with queries similar to the example query and
I never get the correct results. I also try to build SolrQuery queries
with Solrj programmatically and then pass SolrQuery.getQuery String as
the parameter of the service without success. In fact, I haven't been
able to find a way to convert a Solrj SolrQuery object to a well formed
Solr String.
Using a raw String consistent with SolrQuerySintax and passing it as the
solrQuery parameter is the only way I have find to get the correct results.
I think that this issue is not a bug, but the documentation leads you to
think that you can use Solr URL like queries strings and, at least for
me, that's not working.
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax
Regards
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