Hello, I am using the Generic Database Repository Connection to fetch some metadata some a Oracle data source into a SOLR instance using ManifoldCF 0.6.
Given my goal to just ingest metadata from SQL data source into SOLR without the need to specify a document URL (URLCOLUMN) or data (DATACOLUMN). While attempting to set this up, I found that when the URL field was set to null or invalid url this failed the ingest completely (despite having DATACOLUMN set to some string). If a valid URL was provided, the ingest progressed, the supplied IDCOLUMN was not used, instead the document URL was used as the default ID in SOLR (using solr 1.4). To work around both these issues I had edited to connector code to allow a invalid URL and set the URL to be equal that of IDCOLUMN. My question is, am I using this connector of its intended purpose? I guess the functionality I require is similar to that provided by Solr's own data import handler http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler#Goals, do they match that of this connector? Thanks, Nigel Thomas
