Dennis Gove created SOLR-7377:
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             Summary: SOLR Streaming Expressions
                 Key: SOLR-7377
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7377
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: clients - java
            Reporter: Dennis Gove
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: Trunk


It would be beneficial to add an expression-based interface to Streaming API 
described in SOLR-6526. Right now that API requires streaming requests to come 
in from clients as serialized bytecode of the streaming classes. The suggestion 
here is to support string expressions which describe the streaming operations 
the client wishes to perform. 

{code:java}
search(collection1, q=*:*, fl="id,fieldA,fieldB", sort="fieldA asc")
{code}

With this syntax in mind, one can now express arbitrarily complex stream 
queries with a single string.

{code:java}
// merge two distinct searches together on common fields
merge(
  search(collection1, q="id:(0 3 4)", fl="id,a_s,a_i,a_f", sort="a_f asc, a_s 
asc"),
  search(collection2, q="id:(1 2)", fl="id,a_s,a_i,a_f", sort="a_f asc, a_s 
asc"),
  on="a_f asc, a_s asc")

// find top 20 unique records of a search
top(
  n=20,
  unique(
    search(collection1, q=*:*, fl="id,a_s,a_i,a_f", sort="a_f desc"),
    over="a_f desc"),
  over="a_f desc")
{code}

The syntax would support
1. Configurable expression names (eg. via solrconfig.xml one can map "unique" 
to a class implementing a Unique stream class) This allows users to build their 
own streams and use as they wish.
2. Named parameters (of both simple and expression types)
3. Unnamed, type-matched parameters (to support requiring N streams as 
arguments to another stream)
4. Positional parameters

The main goal here is to make streaming as accessible as possible and define a 
syntax for running complex queries across large distributed systems.



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