On 11 July 2012 10:52, Sohail Aboobaker <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, > > I will look into more like this. To answer your question, we were > discussing interface for a central search service that all other components > can call. We have to provide a set of parameters as interface which clients > can set and ask for results. This would mean that name of each parameter > needs to be defined and mapped to document field for the search service to > work. One other approach is to publish a bean object which corresponds to > the schema and have clients set values in the example bean object and ask > for results matching that bean object. We thought this approach might be > cleaner than a map of parameters.
Not sure that I understand the advantage of your second approach, but you should be able to build something on top of SolrJ, e.g., with an internal method that translates bean values to a Solr query: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Solrj#Reading_Data_from_Solr Regards, Gora Regards, Gora
