I may need to work with Solr 1.2 for now. I do not forsee 1.3 getting released by that timeframe. The tool does not work with Solr 1.2. How can I port it to 1.2? cheers , Vijay
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar (JIRA) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-469?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12570591#action_12570591] > > Shalin Shekhar Mangar commented on SOLR-469: > -------------------------------------------- > > Hi Otis, > > Thanks for showing interest in this issue and your feedback. > > Originally we started developing this to be a pure DB Import tool. But our > own requirements led to us to keep this general enough to be used with other > kinds of data sources. For example, we're using this internally for reading > from REST API's (including RSS/ATOM feeds). Therefore, we kept the name as > DataImportHandler on purpose. Previously, our data source was JdbcDataSource > and EntityProcessor was called SqlEntityProcessor. We later extracted > interfaces out of them as DataSource and EntityProcessor to make them as > generic as possible. Also note that the DataImportHandler does not care > about the name of data-config.xml. It could be called anything, all we > need is that it should be specified in solrconfig.xml > > We're developing our generic REST datasources and entity processors and > plan to contribute them as well. We too are looking forward to see this in > Solr and we're committed to do whatever it takes to make sure it becomes a > part of Solr. > > > DB Import RequestHandler > > ------------------------ > > > > Key: SOLR-469 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-469 > > Project: Solr > > Issue Type: New Feature > > Components: update > > Affects Versions: 1.3 > > Reporter: Noble Paul > > Priority: Minor > > Fix For: 1.3 > > > > Attachments: SOLR-469.patch, SOLR-469.patch, SOLR-469.patch > > > > > > We need a RequestHandler Which can import data from a DB or other > dataSources into the Solr index .Think of it as an advanced form of > SqlUpload Plugin (SOLR-103). > > The way it works is as follows. > > * Provide a configuration file (xml) to the Handler which takes in > the necessary SQL queries and mappings to a solr schema > > - It also takes in a properties file for the data source > configuraution > > * Given the configuration it can also generate the solr schema.xml > > * It is registered as a RequestHandler which can take two commands > do-full-import, do-delta-import > > - do-full-import - dumps all the data from the Database into > the index (based on the SQL query in configuration) > > - do-delta-import - dumps all the data that has changed since > last import. (We assume a modified-timestamp column in tables) > > * It provides a admin page > > - where we can schedule it to be run automatically at regular > intervals > > - It shows the status of the Handler (idle, full-import, > delta-import) > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > - > You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. > >
