Take a look at the example schema - you can have dynamic fields that are used based on wildcard matching to the field name if a field doesn't mtach the name of an existing field.
-Peter On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:50 AM, yz5od2 <woods5242-outdo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply: > > I follow the schema.xml concept, but what if my requirement is more dynamic > in nature? I.E. I would like my developers to be able to annotate a POJO and > submit it to the Solr server (embedded) to be indexed according to public > properties OR annotations. Is that possible? > > If that is not possible, can I programatically define documents and fields > (and the field options) in straight Java? I.E. in pseudo code below... > > // this is made up but this is what I would like to be able to do > SolrDoc document = new SolrDoc(); > SolrField field = new SolrField() > field.isIndexed=true; > field.isStored=true; > field.name = 'myField' > > field.value = myPOJO.getValue(); > > solrServer.index(document); > > > > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 12:50 AM, Avlesh Singh wrote: > >>> >>> a) Since Solr is built on top of lucene, using SolrJ, can I still >>> directly >>> create custom documents, specify the field specifics etc (indexed, stored >>> etc) and then map POJOs to those documents, simular to just using the >>> straight lucene API? >>> >>> b) I took a quick look at the SolrJ javadocs but did not see anything in >>> there that allowed me to customize if a field is stored, indexed, not >>> indexed etc. How do I do that with SolrJ without having to go directly to >>> the lucene apis? >>> >>> c) The SolrJ beans package. By annotating a POJO with @Field, how exactly >>> does SolrJ treat that field? Indexed/stored, or just indexed? Is there >>> any >>> other way to control this? >>> >> The answer to all your questions above is the magical file called >> schema.xml. For more read here - http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml. >> SolrJ is simply a java client to access (read and update from) the solr >> server. >> >> c) If I create a custom index outside of Solr using straight lucene, is it >>> >>> easy to import a pre-exisiting lucene index into a Solr Server? >>> >> As long as the Lucene index matches the definitions in your schema you can >> use the same index. The data however needs to copied into a predictable >> location inside SOLR_HOME. >> >> Cheers >> Avlesh >> >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:26 AM, yz5od2 >> <woods5242-outdo...@yahoo.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I am new to Solr but fairly advanced with lucene. >>> >>> In the past I have created custom Lucene search engines that indexed >>> objects in a Java application, so my background is coming from this >>> requirement >>> >>> a) Since Solr is built on top of lucene, using SolrJ, can I still >>> directly >>> create custom documents, specify the field specifics etc (indexed, stored >>> etc) and then map POJOs to those documents, simular to just using the >>> straight lucene API? >>> >>> b) I took a quick look at the SolrJ javadocs but did not see anything in >>> there that allowed me to customize if a field is stored, indexed, not >>> indexed etc. How do I do that with SolrJ without having to go directly to >>> the lucene apis? >>> >>> c) The SolrJ beans package. By annotating a POJO with @Field, how exactly >>> does SolrJ treat that field? Indexed/stored, or just indexed? Is there >>> any >>> other way to control this? >>> >>> c) If I create a custom index outside of Solr using straight lucene, is >>> it >>> easy to import a pre-exisiting lucene index into a Solr Server? >>> >>> thanks! >>> > > -- Peter M. Wolanin, Ph.D. Momentum Specialist, Acquia. Inc. peter.wola...@acquia.com
