: What is confusing me now is that I have to implement my logic in you're certianly in a fuzzy grey area here ... none of this stuff was designed for the kind of thing you're doing.
: But in processCommit, having access to the core I can get the IndexReader : but I still don't know how to get the IndexWriter and SolrInputDocuments in you don't get direct access ot the IndexWriter ... instead your UpdateProcessor uses the SolrCore to get an UpdateRequestProcessorChain to add (ie: replace) the SolrInputDocuments you made based on what you saw in the orriginal SolrInputDocuments. for a second i was thinking that you'd have to worry about checking some threadlocal variable to keep yourself from going into an infinite loop, but then i remembered that you can configured named UpdateRequestProcessorChains ... so your default Chain can use your custom component, and you can create a simple chain (that bybasses your custom component) for your component to call processAdd()/processCommit() on. -Hoss
