> I'm still fairly new to solr, so please bear with me.
> I'm having an amount of difficulty doing a search inside an
> update request processor (as in,
> solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessorChain ) that I'm
> trying to write. As far as I can see there's two main
> options, each of which is presenting a problem for me:
>
> (1) Getting a searcher from req, i.e. SolrIndexSearcher
> searcher = req.getSearcher(). The problem here is that I
> don't see how to get a SolrDocumentList or similar from
> this, only regular Lucene schema-less Documents.
There is a SolrPluginUtils class that you can use. With this you can convert
Lucene schema-less Documents to SolrDocumentList
SolrDocumentList list = docListToSolrDocumentList(docList, req.getSearcher(),
fields, null);
for (final SolrDocument document : list) {..}
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/util/SolrPluginUtils.html
