No, not exactly. In general, people don't expose their Solr API direct
to the world -- they front Solr with some software that is exposed to
the world. (If you do expose your Solr API directly to the world, you
will need to think carefully about security, and make sure you aren't
letting anyone in the world do things you don't want them to do to your
Solr index, like commit new documents!).
It would not be all that hard to write software that searches Solr on
the backend via an OpenSearch interface -- an OpenSearch interface is
basically just results in Atom format, usually. And then just an
OpenSearch Description document that just specifies what your search URL
is. You'd have to have things like 'title' or 'last updated' or whatever
other fields you want in your Atom result in Solr stored fields, if you
wanted to get them purely from Solr -- and you'd have to tell this
hypothetical "OpenSearch front end" what Solr stored fields to use for
what elements in the Atom response. So it's not something where some
software could just go on top of any Solr index at all and provide a
valid Atom or RSS response (which is basically all OpenSearch is).
I do not know if anyone else has already written an open source
configurable "atom/opensearch front-end to Solr", you could try googling
around. But it would not be a very difficult task for a programmer
familiar with Solr and with OpenSearch/Atom/RSS.
Jonathan
On 1/20/2011 4:29 PM, Tod wrote:
Does Solr support the Opensearch format? If so could someone point me
to the correct documentation?
Thanks - Tod
