On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:52 -0500, Charlie Rose wrote:
> > I guess you are using forrest 0.8, right?
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> forrest 0.9
svn trunk, ok.
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> > Do you use the plugin with the dispatcher or with skins?
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> I am pretty new to Forrest. I've gone through documentation relating
> to this but don't have a handle on it yet.
if you do:
cd whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.solr
forrest run
You will see the dispatcher contracts in action at
http://localhost:/index.html
> I've built the plugin, added it to required plugins, copied the jar
> to the web app, and I know I am successfully calling through to my
> solr server.
You normally just do
cd MY_PROJECT
forrest war
This will generate all needed files and add it to a war.
> i would like to add the forrest:contracts and have the buttons in the
> action bar, but documentation doesn't adequately specify which files
> those need to be added to and my knowledge doesn't cover the gaps yet.
> I find-grepped forrest:contract and only found a few examples deep
> within skins that don't even appear to be active (leather-dev where
> the active skin is pelt).
No, if you want to use the dispatcher then you cannot use skins (is
either or). The leather-dev is not working, it was the intend to
incorporate the dispatcher in skin, but this did not work.
DO NOT USE leather-dev.
If you did the above (forrest run on the plugin) you can see how the
dispatcher is working.
The style is controlled by
whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.solr/src/documentation/resources/structurer/url/pelt.fv
which imports
whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.solr/resources/themes/common/panels/solrbar.panel.xml
There we use the solr contracts which you can find in
whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.solr/resources/themes/common/html
The search contract is solr-search.ft.
More information about the dispatcher can be found
http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.internal.dispatcher/
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> > In any way requesting
> > http://localhost:8080/YOUR_PROJECT/solr-search.html?version=2.2&hl=true&hl.fl=content&fl=id,title&indent=on&rows=10&start=0&q=test
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> This returns the correct search results.
>
So it is working, nice.
>
> > If you do not run solr on default port you need to change
> > > value="http://localhost:8983/solr/select"/>
> > in your forrest.properties.xml
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> Yes, I've changed this to http://localhost:8084/solr/select
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> I create a link to the solr-search page in Forrest but I don't see a
> way to get a field containing the query and pass it to the search
> operation.
Do not understand. The link would need to be a GET submit to the
search.html in the form solr-search.html?q=test or using a form.
> The link works and dispatches the way I want. It just doesn't provide
> any search terms. When I provide them myself by
> appending ?q=some-terms to the url it returns the results I am looking
> for.
See the solr-search.ft there is a form.
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> There are a number of cocoon forms examples that pass query parameters
> from a form entry field but forms are disallowed by the DTD in
> Forrest. I could try to override or extend the Forrest google/lucene
> search panel but I don't want a web site search widget, I want a
> search page in the website that searches an entirely different site.
The dispatcher allows you to define page specific styles and you a free
to add whatever content. It is very easy to use once you understood the
concept.
However the easiest way to do it in skin is to create a HTML page and
use this for the search form.
P.S. Please subscribe to the list since I need to moderate your messages
through.
salu2
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> Charles Rose
> CogNet
> MIT Press Journals
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> On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Thorsten Scherler wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 11:36 -0500, Charlie Rose wrote:
> > > I have Forrest and this plugin working in a Tomcat environment.
> > > However, I cannot figure out how to pass the query string, and my
> > > results aren't transformed. If you have any ideas, please let me
> > > know.
> >
> >
> > I guess you are using forrest 0.8, right?
> >
> >
> > Do you use the plugin with the dispatcher or with skins?
> >
> >
> > In any way requesting
> > http://localhost:8080/YOUR_PROJECT/solr-search.html?version=2.2&hl=true&hl.fl=content&fl=id,title&indent=on&rows=10&start=0&q=test
> >
> >
> > should return something. We use more or less the same parameter as
> > in
> > solr directly (q is the query parameter).
> >
> >
> > As mentioned in
> > http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.solr/
> >
> >
> > If you do not run solr on default port you need to change
> > > value="http://localhost:8983/solr/select"/>
> > in your forrest.properties.xml
> >
> >
> > HTH
> >
> >
> > salu2
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > Charles Rose
> > >
