Yes, these can be practice/interview questions. But, considering the specific example above, it seems like question is pertaining to plot syntactically error(?); it is not expected that developer/solr-user know right syntax or commands. What could be interesting is, questions related to cloud concepts, ranking concepts (tf-idf, bm25) or simple problem statements that may ask how can this be implemented using solr's ootb features/apis, and so on. If such are the upcoming puzzles question, I'm sure they will be useful. I liked the idea.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am doing an experiment in teaching about Solr. I've created a Solr > puzzle and want to know whether people would find it useful to do more > of these. My mailing list have seen this already, but I would love the > feedback from a wider Solr audience as well. Privately or on the list. > > The - first - puzzle is deceptively simple: > > ---------- > Given the following sequence of commands (for Solr 5.5 or 6.0): > > 1. bin/solr create_core -c puzzle_date > 2. bin/post -c puzzle_date -type text/csv -d $'today\n2016-04-08' > 3. curl http://localhost:8983/solr/puzzle_date/select?q=Fri > > ---------- > Would the result be: > > 1. Error in the command 1 for not providing a configuration directory > 2. Error in the command 2 for missing a uniqueKey field > 3. Error in the command 2 due to an incorrect date format > 4. No records in the command 3 output > 5. One record in the command 3 output > ---------- > > You can find the answer and full in-depth explanation at: > http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2016/04/solr-5-puzzle-magic-date-answer/ > > Again, what I am trying to understand is whether that's somehow useful > to people and worth making time to create and write-up. > > Any feedback would be appreciated. > > Regards, > Alex. > > ---- > Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: > http://www.solr-start.com/ >
