Thanks, Jeroen - someone mentioned that one once before but I had forgotten it. Looking at the description in the wiki, I think it is not as good a fit for my needs as the webdav approach, since the Forrest project uses a generator instead of a transformer. I need to update the Solr index with the output of a CForm, so being able to transform the data as part of a pipeline before generating a Solr doc and pushing it up to Solr is very convenient. It makes it easy to do all those little normalization and validation steps to keep the data clean. Peter
________________________________ From: Jeroen Reijn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:29 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: webdav transformer Hi Peter, I had to dig a bit deeper in my memory, before I was able to answer this. Almost a year ago, I did some research for the SOLR and Cocoon combination and I came across some Apache Forrest plugins that are useful in combination with Cocoon. See [1] for more information on this plugin. The plugin contains a couple of generators that can handle both GET and POST requests to SOLR. I hope this helps you with your problem, and now you don't have to wrap your request into a webdav request. Regards, Jeroen [1] http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrForrest -----Original Message----- From: Binkley, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 4/16/2008 5:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: webdav transformer Solr speaks POST, and so does the webdav transfomer. I've blogged about this here: http://www.wallandbinkley.com/quaedam/?p=104 . I was surprised how difficult it was to find an easy way to post blocks of XML (as opposed to name-value pairs) without writing code. No doubt this could be added to the CInclude transformer without too much trouble. I wonder why there hasn't been enough demand to make this happen; it's a fairly common requirement these days, I'd have thought. (Not that I've got my act together to post an enhancement request, and I haven't looked at 2.2). Peter ________________________________ From: Jeroen Reijn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:21 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: webdav transformer Hi Robert, what is the stacktrace that you get from the webbdav transformer that sends the request? Just because I'm curious: solr speaks webdav? Regards, Jeroen -----Original Message----- From: news on behalf of Robert Goené Sent: Tue 4/15/2008 8:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: webdav transformer Hi! I try to use the webdav transformer in Cocoon 2.1.10 to post some data to Solr. When I do not provide a <body> element, I get the expected error message from Solr: no data provided. So far so good. When I do provide a <body> element, I get a very general NullPointerException. I use the Saxon transformer, because I need some EXSLT features. Could this explain my problem? Would explicitely defining the webdav transformer do any good? Thanks in advance, Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
