I'm not sure if this is the place to ask, so please feel free to correct
me if I'm completely wrong.
I've been using Lucene for about three years or so now, and Solr for about
6 months or so. I really love what you guys are doing for the community
and I would like to help in whatever way I can.
I asked on the solr list about maybe it would be nice to have SolrJ
support for handling the term vector component responses in a similar
fashion to how facets are treated today, and thought that I could help by
adding this functionality. Since I'm new to contributing (yes I have read
the wiki etc, so I know the basics), but I just wanted to ask a few things:
- Regarding naming conventions, do you always use the _privateVariable vs.
parameterVariable naming?
- When testing, I figured that I would add my tests to the
SolrExampleTests.java class, so that I can run them against embedded solr,
jetty etc etc. Is that the correct approach?
- Specifically for my contribution, dealing with the term vector response
handler, is it okay to use something like:
query.set(CommonParams.QT, "tvrh");
in the test? or is this bad? i just figured that you dont want such
parameters forced into the SolrQuery class... or? What do you all suggest?
for highlighting and facets its straigtforward since you don't need to set
any QT, and you can just say solrQuery.setHighlight(true); etc. But i
guess it might be bad to force the handler into the SolrQuery class, if
someone decides to not register the handler in their solrconfig.xml... Any
thoughts here?
And how "done" should my patch be before i add it to jira?
Thanks, and sorry for all the "newbie" questions...
Best regards,
Aleksander
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Aleksander M. Stensby
Senior software developer
Integrasco A/S
www.integrasco.no
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