Hi Karl,
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation.
I was able to get my usecase working by configuring the solr-connector to
create solrj ContentStreamUpdateRequest where it constructs the solr update
request using the RepositoryDocumentStream.
I just had to tick "Use the Extract Update Handler" option in
solr-connector's schema configuration section and use /update/json handler
to index the content in Solr.
So I could create multiple child repository documents in my transformation
connector, set the content of it to a JSON and use solrj
ContentStreamUpdateRequest to send it to Solr and index the child documents
separately using /update/json handler.
Thank you very much for all the help.
Regards,
Dileepa
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dileepa,
>
> The only current way for ManifoldCF to track documents that are related in
> a parent-child relationship is using the "document component" mechanism.
> This is appropriate when a repository is structured so that a single
> document being processed results in multiple documents being indexed.
> Document components are determined and managed by the repository connector,
> NOT by a transformation connector or output connector. Each
> RepositoryDocument still represents a single document, never multiple
> documents, and even if you could create document components in a
> transformation connector, they would be tracked individually in MCF and
> indexed completely independently in Solr.
>
> So, to do what you want sounds like it would require a different approach,
> specifically the extension of RepositoryDocument to handle multiple
> atomically-related logical documents at one time. This is something that
> would require API changes. However, if such a thing were attempted, the
> entire set of related documents represented by a single RepositoryDocument
> would all be indexed at one time, atomically, which sounds like it also
> might not be what you want. It sounds to me like you are still trying to
> pursue your idea of indexing individual fields independently, is that
> correct?
>
> Karl
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Dileepa Jayakody <djayak...@zaizi.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Karl,
> >
> > Thanks for your response. My requirement is indexing child documents
> > constructed from the content repo.document as separate Solr documents. So
> > adding meta-data fields to the original repository document wouldn't help
> > my scenario AFAIU.
> >
> > My transformation connector is somewhat similar to the Stanbol
> > transformation connector proposed in manifoldcf jira [1].
> > What I referred as meta-data are the Named Entity Recognition data (NER)
> > extracted from the repository document. So each content repository
> document
> > will have multiple NER child documents. These NERs are expected to be
> > indexed as separate Solr documents having a mapping to the parent content
> > repository document which the NERs were extracted from.
> > So apart from indexing the content repository document in Solr, I need to
> > index all NER child documents with their attributes as separate documents
> > in Solr.
> >
> > Above example is how I create a child repo document for NER. I set the
> > entire NER document as the binary stream of the child repository document
> > which is then sent to mcf-solr connector.
> >
> > In the mcf-solr connector (In HttpPoster class) when building the solr
> > document from the repository document's input stream, it adds the
> > inputStream String as a field to the content field of the Solr document
> > configured by solr-connector as below;
> >
> > buildSorDocument(long length, InputStream is){
> >
> > if (contentAttributeName != null)
> > {
> > Reader r = new InputStreamReader(is, Consts.UTF_8);
> > StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder((int)length);
> > char[] buffer = new char[65536];
> > while (true)
> > {
> > int amt = r.read(buffer,0,buffer.length);
> > if (amt == -1)
> > break;
> > sb.append(buffer,0,amt);
> > }
> >
> > outputDoc.addField( contentAttributeName, sb.toString() );
> > }
> > ....
> > }
> >
> > Therefore the solr-connector sends the JSON update request I constructed
> in
> > my connector as a field value of the Solr document, not as the whole
> Solr
> > document.
> >
> > Can you please give me some advice on how to index nested child documents
> > in Solr using Manifold?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dileepa
> >
> > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-1181
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Dileepa,
> > >
> > > In order for ManifoldCF to index metadata, you need to set metadata
> field
> > > values in the RepositoryDocument object, not send Solr JSON as the
> > > document's content. In fact from your example it looks like you want
> > zero
> > > content.
> > >
> > > Please read the RepositoryDocument java doc to see how you set
> metadata.
> > >
> > > Karl
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Dileepa Jayakody <djayak...@zaizi.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > We have a requirement to extract some meta-data from content
> documents
> > > and
> > > > index those meta-data as separate documents into a Solr index.
> > > > I'm writing a transformation connector where I construct a new
> > repository
> > > > document adding the meta-data extracted by the connector and hand it
> > over
> > > > to mcf-solr-connector to index in Solr.
> > > > Currently I face some difficulties with indexing these new documents
> in
> > > > Solr properly using solr-connector.
> > > >
> > > > The new solr document should contain some atomic updates for certain
> > > > fields. So in my connector I create a JSON to represent the Solr
> atomic
> > > > update request and set is as the binaryStream of the repository
> > > > document.The json string for the new solr document is as below;
> > > >
> > > > String jsonString = "[{"id":"http://dbpedia.org/resource/Africa
> > > > ","label":"Africa","documents":{"add":"sample2.txt"}}]";
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Then, I add an id and set above jsonString as the binary input stream
> > of
> > > > the repo-document as follows;
> > > >
> > > > repoDoc.addField( "id", idString );
> > > > InputStream inputStream = IOUtils.toInputStream( jsonString );
> > > > repoDoc.setBinary(inputStream, jsonString.getBytes().length);
> > > >
> > > > The expected behavior is Solr connector sending the SolrInputDocument
> > > > constructed from the inputStream I added to the repo-document from my
> > > > connector. But instead it adds the JSON string to the 'content'
> field
> > > of
> > > > the solr-document and sends to Solr.
> > > >
> > > > When I monitored the HTTP request from manifold to Solr I see below;
> > > >
> > > > POST /solr/core1/update?wt=xml&version=2.2 HTTP/1.1
> > > > <add>
> > > > <doc boost="1.0">
> > > > <field name="id">http://dbpedia.org/resource/Africa</field>
> > > > <field name="_root_">[{"id":"
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Africa
> > > > ","label":"Africa","documents":{"add":"sample2.txt"}}]</field>
> > > > <field name="lcf_metadata_id">
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Africa
> > > > </field>
> > > > </doc></add>0
> > > >
> > > > Please note that the 'content' field configured in manifoldcf is
> > > *_root_*.
> > > >
> > > > But the expected Solr update request from solr-connector should be as
> > > > below;
> > > > <add>
> > > > <doc boost="1.0">
> > > > <field name="id">http://dbpedia.org/resource/Africa</field>
> > > > <field name="label">Africa</field>
> > > > <field name="documents" update="add">sample2.txt</field>
> > > > <field name="lcf_metadata_id">
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Africa
> > > > </field>
> > > > </doc></add>0
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Can someone please give some advice on how to use solr atomic updates
> > > with
> > > > manifoldcf solr-connector? Have I missed some
> configurations/arguments?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Dileepa
> > > >
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