Sounds like a consistent design. We have dialect for JDBCDataStore,
strategy for for CSVDataStore etc...
The Solr datastore is one of Andrea's "unsupported" modules - so you will
need to check with Andrea about making changes.
--
Jody Garnett
On 26 January 2015 at 17:39, Justin Deoliveira <jdeol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have been looking at the solr data store that was developed recently and
> I have a mandate to make some modifications to it. Before proceeding I
> wanted to bounce the approach off of the group first.
>
> First change I need is pretty simple, and it's to support the bounding box
> field type. [1] Fields of this type are encoded differently than the other
> existing spatial types, they are encoded as a 4 value tuple rather than
> wkt. What I was thinking here was just to introduce a simple strategy
> interface based on the field type. All in all a pretty straight forward
> modification I think.
>
> The second change is somewhat more involved. At the moment the
> configuration of the datastore requires the user to specify a field that
> groups documents in the index into logical layers. Unfortunately this
> "mapping strategy" does't work with the types of indexes I am working with.
> So what I would like to do is add an additional strategy. In my case I want
> to serve up the entire index as a single layer (with potentially a few
> parameters that would always be included in the filter query made to solr).
>
> The approach i am thinking of is to add a "MappingStrategy" interface that
> would encapsulate how documents in the index are mapped to features. Given
> the unstructured nature of document storage in lucene I imagine this
> interface could prove useful in order to support additional future mapping
> strategies.
>
> The exisitng mapping strategy would of course remain the default and while
> I was planning to add a few additional data store parameters to control the
> mapping configuration it will remain 100% backward compatible (important
> for geoserver users who already have data store configurations out there).
>
> That is about it. Let me know what you think about the approach :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Justin
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/trunk/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/BBoxField.java
>
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