On Oct 3, 2011, at 23:32 , jwang wrote:
> Solritas is a nice search UI integrated with Solr with many features we could
> use. However we do not want to build our UI into our Solr instance. We will
> have a front-end web app interfacing with Solr. Is there an easy way to
> deploy Solritas as a separate application (e.g., Solritas with SolrJ to
> query a backend Solr instance)?
Well thanks!
It currently can't be deployed into a front-end webapp as is. [though one
could set it up as a non-doc-containing front-end to another shard, perhaps]
The Velocity stuff is quite straightforward though, so it'd be easy to create a
servlet that passed requests to Solr and fed the response to Velocity
templates. I've thought about implementing this sort of thing a million times
over. I've come up with what I think is a very lean/clean way to do this,
still using Velocity templates, but using JRuby (via Sinatra) as the front-end
web tier. I've implemented, a while ago, a proof-of-concept of this here:
https://github.com/lucidimagination/Prism
I'd like to make time to flesh this out even further. The templates could be
made practically the same from inside Solr's wt=velocity infrastructure to an
external system using Velocity to render Solr responses.
In general - what you're asking for specifically doesn't exist that I know of,
but the pieces are all kind of there to put this together. And Prism is my
opinionated way that Solr-backed UI can be built leanly and cleanly.
Erik
