Re: Casting Exception with Similarity

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Patton
Sweet, looks like someone beat me to it. Tim Chris Hostetter wrote: : : Makes sense, I guess I was looking for a mention in the online : documentation for the xml file where it mentions how to specify your own : similarity. Somehow I never stumbled on the other two spots. Hmmm... you mean ht

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Federated Search

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Patton
he nodes in the cluster and hence did not need any change to Lucene. I plan to index using Lucene/Hadoop and use Solr as the partition searcher and a broker which would merge the results and return 'em. Thanks, Venkatesh On 3/5/07, Tim Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Venkatesh Seet

Re: Casting Exception with Similarity

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Patton
Chris Hostetter wrote: : I figured out my problem. My own jar must be in the examples/solr/lib : directory (which does not exist in the download). I found a hint to : this on the mailing list. The docs don't indicate this anywhere : promenant. Perhaps the lib directory should exist in the d

Re[2]: Federated Search

2007-03-05 Thread Tim Patton
Jack L wrote: This is very interesting discussion. I have a few question while reading Tim and Venkatesh's email: To Tim: 1. is there any reason you don't want to use HTTP? Since solr has an HTTP interface already, I suppose using HTTP is the simplest way to communicate the solr servers

Re: Federated Search

2007-03-05 Thread Tim Patton
Venkatesh Seetharam wrote: Hi Tim, Howdy. I saw your post on Solr newsgroup and caught my attention. I'm working on a similar problem for searching a vault of over 100 million XML documents. I already have the encoding part done using Hadoop and Lucene. It works like a charm. I create N in

Re: Casting Exception with Similarity

2007-03-02 Thread Tim Patton
Chris, I figured out my problem. My own jar must be in the examples/solr/lib directory (which does not exist in the download). I found a hint to this on the mailing list. The docs don't indicate this anywhere promenant. Perhaps the lib directory should exist in the default download in the

Casting Exception with Similarity

2007-03-01 Thread Tim Patton
I'm trying toconvert some of my code over to Solr, but I keep getting class cast exceptions when I try to use my own similarity class, like this: Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: dealcatcher.kolinka.lucene.similarity.T estSimilarity cannot be cast to org.apache.lucene.search.Similarity

Federated Search

2007-02-27 Thread Tim Patton
I just downloaded Solr to try out, it seems like it will replace a ton of code I've written. I saw a few posts about the FederatedSearch and skimmed the ideas at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FederatedSearch. The project I am working on has several Lucene indexes 20-40GB in size spread among a