Hi Peyman, Could you just use solrj api for this purpose? That is, ask via solrj api 1-2 and perform 3 if entity (assuming you mean document or some field value by X) didn't exist, i.e. add it to the index.
// Dmitry On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Peyman Faratin <pey...@robustlinks.com>wrote: > Hi Erik > > The workflow I'd like to implement is > > 1- search the index using the incoming query > 2- the query is of the type "does entity X exist" > 3- if X does not exist in the index then I'd like to add X to the index > > Currently I am using a custom search component to achieve this by creating > a solrserver within the init (or inform) method of the search component and > using that instance to update (and commit) the index. I am not sure this is > the best approach either and thought using the IndexReader of the search > component itself maybe better. > > Is there a better approach in your opinion? > > thank you Erik > > Peyman > > On Jun 30, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > > > Lots of the index modification (all of it?) has been removed in 4.0 > > from IndexReaders... > > > > It seems like you could always get the directory and open a > > SolrIndexWriter wherever you wanted, > > but I'm not sure it's a good idea, are there other processes that will > > be writing to the index at the > > same time? > > > > What's the purpose here anyway? There might be a better approach.... > > > > Best > > Erick > > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Peyman Faratin <pey...@robustlinks.com> > wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> Is it possible to add a new document to the index in a custom > SearchComponent (that also implements a SolrCoreAware)? I can get a > reference to the indexReader via the ResponseBuilder parameter of the > process() method using > >> > >> rb.req.getSearcher().getReader() > >> > >> But is it possible to actually add a new document to the index _after_ > searching the index? I.e accessing the indexWriter? > >> > >> thank you > >> > >> Peyman > > -- Regards, Dmitry Kan
