If Drupal uses its own authorization mechanism, you will indeed need to write your own authority to support it. It sounds like you are basically on the right track, but there's a lot to think about while designing connectors. A good resource for how to do all this is ManifoldCF in Action. See http://www.manning.com/wright for more details. You'll want especially to read chapters 4,5,6,7, and 8.
Thanks, Karl On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:51 AM, rutvij vyas <rutvijv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Let me first introduce myself, I am Rutvij Vyas. I am working mainly for > application development in Java. > Right now I am in process of building a connector from Drupal CMS to Solr > using Apache ManifoldCF(Lucene Connector Framework). > > As I understood from online documentation, I'll have to implement > interfaces provided in framework for Repository,Authority and Output > Connctors. > Drupal CMS uses in-built security model(i.e. It uses internal users defined > at Drupal level, there is no integration with Ad or something). I think in > this case I'll have to design Authority connector to fetch ACLs from Drupal > DB and cache them. Further I'll have to write repository connector to fetch > metadata+content+URI+ACL information associated with each document from > Drupal DB and feed it to Solr via output connector. > > Am I going right way? Is building a connector providing ability for secure > searches on Solr possible with this approach? Kindly correct me if I am > wrong. > > Can you please guide me with a brief about how to start? > > Your help for starting the code development is highly appreciated. > > Thanks and Regards, > Rutvij Vyas
