Mattias,
Nice start!
One comment....
In test.html:
new $sj.solrjs.Manager({solrUrl:"http://localhost:8983/solr/
select"});
It would be better to omit the "/select" from the base URL.
Consider Solr rooted at a particular URL without the request handler
mapping attached to it, and allow the "/select" or "qt=whatever" to be
added at a different stage. This way SolrJS can attach to any number
of request handlers depending on context.
Ryan commented on using something besides JavaScript to generate HTML
pieces. One alternative that I propose is to use a
VelocityResponseWriter (see SOLR-620 for a first draft) to generate
the HTML framework which SolrJS can then deal with. I'm personally
fonder of the bulk of HTML generated server-side, even snippets that
are AJAXed in, leaving SolrJS to mainly deal with widgets and getting
JSON data to them when HTML generation doesn't make sense. SOLR-620
is still raw, and needs some work to make it really easy to leverage,
but I wanted to toss it out there for folks to improve upon as needed.
Also, consider wiring in a SIMILE Timeline (or perhaps even SIMILE
Exhibit) widget - it'd make for a snazzy example :) Of course, Google
Maps would make a great example as well.
Erik
On Jul 1, 2008, at 4:00 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
Hi community,
as described here http://www.nabble.com/Announcement-of-Solr-Javascript-Client-to17462581.html
I started to work on a javascript widget library for solr.
I've now finished the basic framework work:
- creating a jquery environment
- creating helpers for jquery inheritance
- testing the json communication between client and solr
- creating a base class "AbstractWidget"
After that, I implemented a SimpleFacet widget and 2 ResultViews to
show how these things will work in the new jquery environment.
A new wiki page documents this progress:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrJS
Check out the trunk at:
http://solrstuff.org/svn/solrjs/trunk/
Feedback about the implementation, the quality of code
(documentation, integration into html, customizing the widgets) as
well as ideas for future widgets etc. is very welcome.
regards
matthias
