As a follow-up to last week's thread about loading Solr via dependency manager,
I started experimenting with using Ivy to install Solr. Here's what I have
(note that I'm trying to install Solr 5.5.0 as an arbitrary example, but that
detail should not be important):
ivy.xml:
<ivy-module version="2.0">
<info organisation="org.vufind" module="vufind"/>
<dependencies>
<dependency org="org.apache.solr" name="solr-parent" rev="5.5.0" />
</dependencies>
</ivy-module>
build.xml:
<project xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" name="vufind" default="resolve">
<target name="resolve" description="--> retrieve dependencies with ivy">
<ivy:retrieve />
</target>
</project>
My hope, based on a quick read of some Ivy tutorials, was that simply running
"ant" with the above configs would give me a copy of Solr in my lib directory.
When I use example libraries from the tutorials in my ivy.xml, I do indeed get
files installed... but when I try to substitute the Solr package,
no files are installed ("0 artifacts copied"). I'm not very experienced with
any of these tools or repositories, so I'm not sure where I'm going wrong.
- Do I need to add some extra configuration somewhere to tell Ivy to download
the constituent parts of the solr-parent package?
- Is the solr-parent package the wrong thing to be using? (I tried replacing
solr-parent with solr-core and ended up with many .jar files in my lib
directory, which was better than nothing, but the .jar files were not organized
into a directory structure and were not accompanied by any of the non-.jar
files like shell scripts that make Solr tick).
- Am I just completely on the wrong track? (I do realize that there may not be
a way to pull a fully-functional Solr out of the core Maven repository... but
it seemed worth a try!)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
thanks,
Demian
