2010/1/19 Tim Terlegård <tim.terleg...@gmail.com>:
> There are a few ways to use solrj. I just learned that I can use the
> javabin format to get some performance gain. But when I try the binary
> format nothing is added to the index. This is how I try to use this:
>
> server = new CommonsHttpSolrServer("http://localhost:8983/solr";)
> server.setRequestWriter(new BinaryRequestWriter())
> request = new UpdateRequest()
> request.setAction(UpdateRequest.ACTION.COMMIT, true, true);
> request.setParam("stream.file", "/tmp/data.bin")
> request.process(server)
>
> Should this work? Could there be something wrong with the file? I
> haven't found a good reference for how to create a javabin file, but
> by reading the source code I came up with this (groovy code):
BinaryRequestWriter does not read from a file and post it
>
> fieldId = new NamedList()
> fieldId.add("name", "id")
> fieldId.add("val", "9-0")
> fieldId.add("boost", null)
> fieldText = new NamedList()
> fieldText.add("name", "text")
> fieldText.add("val", "Some text")
> fieldText.add("boost", null)
> fieldNull = new NamedList()
> fieldNull.add("boost", null)
> doc = [fieldNull, fieldId, fieldText]
> docs = [doc]
> root = new NamedList()
> root.add("docs", docs)
> fos = new FileOutputStream("data.bin")
> new JavaBinCodec().marshal(root, fos)
>
> I haven't found any examples of using stream.file like this with a
> binary file. Is it supported? Is it better/faster to use
> StreamingUpdateSolrServer and send everything over HTTP instead? Would
> code for that look something like this?
>
> while (moreDocs) {
> xmlDoc = readDocFromFileUsingSaxParser()
> doc = new SolrInputDocument()
> doc.addField("id", "9-0")
> doc.addField("text", "Some text")
> server.add(doc)
> }
>
> To me it instinctively looks as if stream.file would be faster because
> it doesn't have to use HTTP and it doesn't have to create a bunch of
> SolrInputDocument objects.
>
> /Tim
>
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