On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Amit Nithian <anith...@gmail.com> wrote: > Few questions regarding the DataImportHandler: > 1) My company is currently using Solr 1.2 and upgrading to 1.3 isn't in the > immediate near term horizon, so I was wondering how difficult would it be to > use the DIH and SolrJ from 1.3 to post documents to a Solr 1.2 server? We > currently have a lot of custom loaders from MySQL that would be good to move > away to the new DIH and SolrJ. I saw a discussion about someone wanting to > use this externally from the solr server and I too would like this (if the > loader crashes, I don't want the server going down with it). There is an issue opened to make this possible . SOLR-853 . It may not be in sync w/ the trunk . > 2) How difficult is it to write data import extensions for other sources? > Has anyone written an import extension from sources such as Memcache (for > data persisted there)? I am also going to try and write an extension to > import data from Hypertable (www.hypertable.org). > 3) Is it worth possibly extending the cached SQL entity processor to persist > to memcache instead of local cache for distributed search servers? That is a bit hard. If you wish to write one it is possible by extendiing CachedSqlEntityProcessor
> > Thanks > -- --Noble Paul
