Mike, I'm also finding the Solr distributed process to be confusing. Lets try to add things to the wiki as we learn them?
-J On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Mike Anderson<mik...@mit.edu> wrote: > I'm trying to make my way through learning how to modify and write > distributed search components. > > A few questions > > 1. in SearchHandler, when the query is broken down and sent to each shard, > will this request make it's way to the process() method of the component > (because it will look like a non-distributed request to the SearchHandler of > the shard)? > > 2. the comment above the response handling loop (in SearchHandler) says that > if any requests are added while in the loop, the loop will break and make > the request immediately. I see that the loop will exit if there is an > exception or if there are no more responses, but I don't see how the new > requests will be called unless it goes through the entire loop again. > > 3. if one adds a request to rb in the handleResponses method, this wouldn't > necessarily be called, namely in the event that none of the components > override the distributedProcess method, and the loop only goes through once. > > 4. where can I learn more about the shard.purpose variable? Where in the > component should this be set, if anywhere? > > > I've taken a look at the wiki page, but if there is more documentation > elsewhere please point me towards it. > > Thanks in advance, > Mike > >
