Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-08 Thread Roman Chyla
Hi,
what you want to do is not that difficult, you can use json, eg.

try:
conn = urllib.urlopen(url, params)
page = conn.read()
rsp = simplejson.loads(page)
conn.close()
return rsp
except Exception, e:
log.error(str(e))
log.error(page)
raise e

but this way you are initiating connection each time, which is
expensive - it would be better to pool the connections

but as you can see, you can get json or xml either way

another option is to use solrpy

import solr
import urllib
# create a connection to a solr server
s = solr.SolrConnection('http://localhost:8984/solr')
s.select = solr.SearchHandler(s, '/invenio')

def search(query, kwargs=None, fields=['id'], qt='invenio'):

# do a remote search in solr
url_params = urllib.urlencode([(k, v) for k,v in kwargs.items() if
k not in ['_', 'req']])

if 'rg' in kwargs and kwargs['rg']:
rows = min(kwargs['rg'], 100) #inv maximum limit is 100
else:
rows = 25
response = s.query(query, fields=fields, rows=rows, qt=qt,
inv_params=url_params)
num_found = response.numFound
q_time = response.header['QTime']
# more and return

r


On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Ben Woods bwo...@quincyinc.com wrote:
 But, check out things like httplib2 and urllib2.

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 From: Spadez [mailto:james_will...@hotmail.com]
 Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 2:09 PM
 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
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 ditch it

 Thank you, that helps. The bit I am still confused about how the server sends 
 the response to the server though. I get the impression that there are 
 different ways that this could be done, but is sending an XML response back 
 to the Python server the best way to do this?



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Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Spadez
Further to my last reply. How about I do the following:

Send the request to the server using the GET method and then return the
results in XML rather than JSON. Does this sound logical?


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Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Spadez
Final comment from me then Ill let someone else speak.

The solution we seem to be looking at is send a GET request to SOLR and then
send back a renderized page, so we are basically creating the results page
on the server rather than the client side.

I would really like to hear what people have to say about this. Is this a
good idea? Are there any major disadvantages? 

It seems like the only way to go to have a reliable search site which works
without Javascript.

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Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Walter Underwood
This is a bad idea. Solr is not designed to be exposed to arbitrary internet 
traffic and attacks. The best design is to have a front end server make 
requests to Solr, then use those to make HTML pages.

wunder

On Jun 7, 2012, at 4:49 AM, Spadez wrote:

 Final comment from me then Ill let someone else speak.
 
 The solution we seem to be looking at is send a GET request to SOLR and then
 send back a renderized page, so we are basically creating the results page
 on the server rather than the client side.
 
 I would really like to hear what people have to say about this. Is this a
 good idea? Are there any major disadvantages? 
 
 It seems like the only way to go to have a reliable search site which works
 without Javascript.
 
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Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Michael Della Bitta
And keep Solr behind a firewall or authentication or even better,
both! People *will* find and exploit your Solr installation.

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On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org wrote:
 This is a bad idea. Solr is not designed to be exposed to arbitrary internet 
 traffic and attacks. The best design is to have a front end server make 
 requests to Solr, then use those to make HTML pages.

 wunder

 On Jun 7, 2012, at 4:49 AM, Spadez wrote:

 Final comment from me then Ill let someone else speak.

 The solution we seem to be looking at is send a GET request to SOLR and then
 send back a renderized page, so we are basically creating the results page
 on the server rather than the client side.

 I would really like to hear what people have to say about this. Is this a
 good idea? Are there any major disadvantages?

 It seems like the only way to go to have a reliable search site which works
 without Javascript.

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Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Spadez
Thank you for the reply, but I'm afraid I don't understand :(

This is how things are setup. On my Python website, I have a keyword and
location box. When clicked, it queries the server via a javascript GET
request, it then sends back the data via Json.

I'm saying that I dont want to be reliant on Javascript. So I'm confused
about the best way to not only send the request to the Solr server, but also
how to receive the data.

My guess is that a GET request without javascript is the right way to send
the request to the Solr server, but then what should Solr be spitting out
the other end, just an XML file? Then is the idea that my Python site would
receive this XML data and display it on the site?

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RE: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Ben Woods
I'm new to Solr...but this is more of a web programming question...so I can get 
in on this :).

Your only option to get the data from Solr sans-Javascript, is the use python 
to pull the results BEFORE the client loads the page.

So, if you are asking if you can get AJAX like results (an already loaded page 
pulling info from your Solr server)...but without using Javascript...no, you 
cannot do that. You might be able to hack something ugly together using 
iframes, but trust me, you don't want to. It will look bad, it won't work well, 
and interacting with data in an iframe is nightmarish.

So, basically, if you don't want to use Javascript, your only option is a total 
page reload every time you need to query Solr (which you then query on the 
python side.)

-Original Message-
From: Spadez [mailto:james_will...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 11:37 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to 
ditch it

Thank you for the reply, but I'm afraid I don't understand :(

This is how things are setup. On my Python website, I have a keyword and 
location box. When clicked, it queries the server via a javascript GET
request, it then sends back the data via Json.

I'm saying that I dont want to be reliant on Javascript. So I'm confused about 
the best way to not only send the request to the Solr server, but also how to 
receive the data.

My guess is that a GET request without javascript is the right way to send 
the request to the Solr server, but then what should Solr be spitting out the 
other end, just an XML file? Then is the idea that my Python site would receive 
this XML data and display it on the site?

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RE: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Spadez
Hi Ben,

Thank you for the reply. So, If I don't want to use Javascript and I want
the entire page to reload each time, is it being done like this?

1. User submits form via GET
2. Solr server queried via GET
3. Solr server completes query
4. Solr server returns XML output
5. XML data put into results page
6. User shown new results page

Is this basically how it would work if we wanted Javascript out of the
equation?

Regards,

James



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Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Nick Chase



On 6/7/2012 1:53 PM, Spadez wrote:

Hi Ben,

Thank you for the reply. So, If I don't want to use Javascript and I want
the entire page to reload each time, is it being done like this?

1. User submits form via GET
2. Solr server queried via GET
3. Solr server completes query
4. Solr server returns XML output
5. XML data put into results page
6. User shown new results page

Is this basically how it would work if we wanted Javascript out of the
equation?


Seems to me that you'd still have to have Javascript turn the XML into 
HTML -- unless you use the XsltResponseWriter 
(http://wiki.apache.org/solr/XsltResponseWriter) to use XSLT to turn the 
raw XML into your actual results HTML.


The other option is to create a python page that does the call to Solr 
and spits out just the HTML for your results, then call THAT rather than 
calling Solr directly.


  Nick


Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Michael Della Bitta
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Nick Chase nch...@earthlink.net wrote:
 The other option is to create a python page that does the call to Solr and 
 spits out just the HTML for your results, then call THAT rather than calling 
 Solr directly.

This is the *only* option if you're listening to Walter and I. Don't
give end users direct access to your Solr box!

Michael Della Bitta


Appinions, Inc. -- Where Influence Isn’t a Game.
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Re: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Nick Chase
+1 on that!  If you do want to provide direct results, ALWAYS send 
requests through a proxy that can verify that a) all requests are coming 
from your web app, and b) only acceptable queries are being passed on.


  Nick

On 6/7/2012 2:50 PM, Michael Della Bitta wrote:

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Nick Chasench...@earthlink.net  wrote:

The other option is to create a python page that does the call to Solr and 
spits out just the HTML for your results, then call THAT rather than calling 
Solr directly.


This is the *only* option if you're listening to Walter and I. Don't
give end users direct access to your Solr box!


RE: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Ben Woods
Yes (or, at least, I think I understand what you are saying, haha.) Let me 
clarify.

1. Client sends GET request to web server
2. Web server (via Python, in your case, if I remember correctly) queries Solr 
Server
3. Solr server sends response to web server
4. You take that data and put it into the page you are creating server-side
5. Server returns static page to client

-Original Message-
From: Spadez [mailto:james_will...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:53 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: RE: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to 
ditch it

Hi Ben,

Thank you for the reply. So, If I don't want to use Javascript and I want the 
entire page to reload each time, is it being done like this?

1. User submits form via GET
2. Solr server queried via GET
3. Solr server completes query
4. Solr server returns XML output
5. XML data put into results page
6. User shown new results page

Is this basically how it would work if we wanted Javascript out of the equation?

Regards,

James



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RE: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Spadez
Thank you, that helps. The bit I am still confused about how the server sends
the response to the server though. I get the impression that there are
different ways that this could be done, but is sending an XML response back
to the Python server the best way to do this?



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RE: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Ben Woods
As far as I know, it is the only way to do this. Look around a bit, Python (or 
PHP, or C, etc., etc.) is able to act as an HTTP client...in fact, that is the 
most common way that web services are consumed. But, we are definitely beyond 
the scope of the Solr list at this point.

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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 2:09 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: RE: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to 
ditch it

Thank you, that helps. The bit I am still confused about how the server sends 
the response to the server though. I get the impression that there are 
different ways that this could be done, but is sending an XML response back to 
the Python server the best way to do this?



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RE: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to ditch it

2012-06-07 Thread Ben Woods
But, check out things like httplib2 and urllib2.

-Original Message-
From: Spadez [mailto:james_will...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 2:09 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: RE: Help! Confused about using Jquery for the Search query - Want to 
ditch it

Thank you, that helps. The bit I am still confused about how the server sends 
the response to the server though. I get the impression that there are 
different ways that this could be done, but is sending an XML response back to 
the Python server the best way to do this?



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