Sounds like a good idea to me. The tricky part is in testing, I
suspect, but maybe the Google code makes it easy to mock that out.
On Oct 13, 2008, at 8:24 AM, mark harwood wrote:
Google open-sourced (Apache license) the framework it uses for
getting content from a number of document repositories into a Google
Search Appliance (their hardware+software solution for enterprise
search).
My suggestion is that Solr could also make use of these connectors
simply by opening a port that honours the wire-protocol that is used
to feed content into a Google Search Appliance (architecture
overview is here: http://tinyurl.com/4puke8 ). You can see how
connectors push data in the "sendData" method in "GsaFeedConnection"
in the connector manager framework (source here: http://tinyurl.com/49cehd
).
Before a connector starts pushing content it needs to be configured
and the Google Search Appliance admin screens are used to set this
up. The GSA appliance has some form of conversation with connectors
to understand what properties need setting and to set them but this
again could be added with Solr providing an equivalent admin screen
driven by the same information provided by connectors.
The other form of conversation conducted is around authentication
when query results are about to be presented to users.
This isn't something I have any time to work on but it seems like an
interesting project so I thought I'd mention it in case anyone here
has the time or interest in pursuing it.
It would open Solr up to some new environments by making use of
existing connectors provided by some large commercial organisations.
Cheers,
Mark
