Sönke Goldbeck wrote:
Alright, first post to this list and I hope the question
is not too stupid or misplaced ...
what I currently have:
- a nicely working Solr 1.3 index with information about some
entities e.g. organisations, indexed from an RDBMS. Many of these
entities have an URL pointing at further information, e.g. the
website of an institute or company.
- an installation of nutch 0.9 with which I can crawl for the
URLs that I can extract from the RDBMS mentioned above and put
into a seed file
- tutorials about how to put crawled and indexed data from
nutch 1.0 (which I could install w/o problems) into a separate
Solr index
what I want:
- combine the indexed information from the RDBMS and the website
in one Solr index so that I can search both in one and with the
capability of using all the Solr features. E.g. having the following
(example) fields in one document:
<doc>
<name-from-RDBMS>
<indexed-content-from-RDBMS>
<indexed-content-from-website>
<URL>
<...>
</doc>
I believe that this kind of document merging is not possible (at least
not easily) - you have to assemble the whole document before you index
it in Solr.
If these documents use the same primary key (I guess they do, otherwise
how would you merge them...) then you can do the merging in your
front-end application, which would have to submit the main query to
Solr, and then for each Solr document on the list of results it would
retrieve a Nutch document (using NutchBean API).
(The not so easy way involves writing a SearchComponent that does the
latter part of that process on the Solr side.)
--
Best regards,
Andrzej Bialecki <><
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