Thanks to everyone that has sent me feedback on Splainer. I've resolved a couple of immediate issues surrounding pulling fl from the query: - not specifying an "fl" defaulted to just showing the id field's value for title/content -- we now assume to show more content (fl=*) not less - Splainer now accepts fl=* and *,score
Other issues that folks identified : - NullPointerException presumably related to highlighting -- still investigating, but have had trouble recreating. If anyone else sees a similar issue, please let me know. - the unique id field is assumed to be "id" until you manually adjust it. We should prompt the user if this assumption appears false. The current work-around is to specify "id:<id_field_name>" in the displayed fields call out to tell Splainer what the id field is - Some documentation to help folks understand what they're seeing https://github.com/o19s/splainer/issues Thanks again, and please don't hesitate to engage me about the tool Cheers -Doug On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Doug Turnbull < dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote: > As per documentation, it should be paste in your Solr URL and go. > Generally we try to follow the maxim of "Bad UI is like a bad joke if I > have to explain it... its not good". So if something is not obvious (like > having to prefix id: to an id field that's not "id") that's a bug too me, > not just a UI shortcoming. We'll fix it. > > Regardless, no tool is perfect, so we will come up with some documentation > to walk people through the tool and capture edge cases that don't just work > by pasting in your Solr URL. > > Did you encounter a specific problem? We shared this tool in part because > our view of the world's Solr population is miniscule and biased around how > we configure things. There's so much diversity in how people use Solr. So I > humbly beseech the mailing list to tell me where Splainer doesn't work well > with your Solr :) > > Cheers > -Doug > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jacques du Rand <jacq...@pricecheck.co.za > > wrote: > >> ANY documentation as to how to setup this thing ? >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Doug Turnbull [dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:46 PM >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Announcing "Splainer" -- Open Source Solr Sandbox >> >> Thanks! >> >> About the id field, in "displayed fields" you can specify an alternate >> Id field by prefixing a field name with "id:". IE: "id:uuid". You'll need >> to adjust this after pasting in a URL >> >> Doug >> >> On Wednesday, August 27, 2014, Markus Jelsma <markus.jel...@openindex.io> >> wrote: >> >> > Yeah, very cool. Since this is all just client side, how about >> integrating >> > it in Solr's UI? >> > Also, it seems to assume `id` is the ID field, which is not always >> true. >> > >> > -----Original message----- >> > > From:david.w.smi...@gmail.com <javascript:;> < >> david.w.smi...@gmail.com >> > <javascript:;>> >> > > Sent: Friday 22nd August 2014 19:42 >> > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org <javascript:;> >> > > Subject: Re: Announcing "Splainer" -- Open Source Solr >> Sandbox >> > > >> > > Cool Doug! I look forward to digging into this. >> > > >> > > ~ David Smiley >> > > Freelance Apache Lucene/Solr Search Consultant/Developer >> > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >> > > >> > > >> > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Doug Turnbull < >> > > dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com <javascript:;>> wrote: >> > > >> > > > Greetings from the OpenSource Connections Team! >> > > > >> > > > We're happy to announce we've taken core sandbox of our search >> > relevancy >> > > > product Quepid and open sourced it as "Splainer" ( >> http://splainer.io). >> > > > Splainer is a search sandbox that explains search results in a human >> > > > readable form as you work. By being a *sandbox* it differs from >> parsing >> > > > tools such as explain.solr.pl by letting you tweak and tweak and >> tweak >> > > > without leaving the tool itself. In short, it helps you work faster >> to >> > > > solve relevancy problems. >> > > > >> > > > Simply paste in a Solr URL and Splainer goes to work. Splainer is >> > entirely >> > > > driven by your browser (there's no backend -- its all static >> > js/html/css >> > > > and uses HTML local storage to store a few settings for you). So if >> > your >> > > > browser can see it, Splainer can work with it. >> > > > >> > > > Anyway, we've started getting great use out of the tool, and would >> also >> > > > like to gather feedback from the community by sharing it. We're >> open to >> > > > ideas, bug reports, pull requests, etc. >> > > > >> > > > Relevant links: >> > > > >> > > > Blog Post announcing Splainer: >> > > > >> > > > >> > >> http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2014/08/18/introducing-splainer-the-open-source-search-sandbox-that-tells-you-why/ >> > > > >> > > > Splainer: >> > > > http://splainer.io >> > > > >> > > > Splainer on Github (open sourced as Apache 2) >> > > > http://github.com/o19s/splainer >> > > > >> > > > These features (and a ton more) are also in our relevancy testing >> > product >> > > > Quepid: >> > > > http://quepid.com >> > > > >> > > > Bugs/feedback/complaints/ideas/questions/contributions/etc welcome. >> > > > >> > > > Thank you for your time! >> > > > -- >> > > > Doug Turnbull >> > > > Search & Big Data Architect >> > > > OpenSource Connections <http://o19s.com> >> > > > >> > > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Doug Turnbull >> Search & Big Data Architect >> OpenSource Connections <http://o19s.com> >> This email and its contents are subject to an email legal notice that can >> be viewed at http://www.naspers.com/disclaimer.php Should you be unable >> to access the link provided, please email us for a copy at >> c...@optinet.net >> Hierdie e-pos en sy inhoud is onderhewig aan 'n regskennisgewing oor >> elektroniese pos wat gelees kan word by >> http://www.naspers.com/afrikaans/voorbehoud.php 'n Afskrif kan aangevra >> word by c...@optinet.net >> > > > > -- > Doug Turnbull > Search & Big Data Architect > OpenSource Connections <http://o19s.com> > -- Doug Turnbull Search & Big Data Architect OpenSource Connections <http://o19s.com>
