You might also see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2143
On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > 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 >> -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com/ Search the Lucene ecosystem docs using Solr/Lucene: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
