SolrJ is completely irrelevant for using DIH, the only time you need it would be if you're going to write a Java program to push data into your index. Which can be done using a JDBC driver to connect to your SQL server and then pushing docs to Solr, see:
http://searchhub.org/dev/2012/02/14/indexing-with-solrj/ Best Erick On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Val <val.hoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gora, > > First of all thank you, and I will try to look closely at example-DIH (so I > guess the rest of my email can be ignored), thanks! > > I'm using DataImportHandler as it's described here: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler. And I have the binary > distribution, not the compiled one. > > I meant that I'm using the example/ folder which is included with the > binary Solr archive to create a DataImportHandler which imports from MySQL > database. > > I'm running "java -jar start.jar" from > /home/my/projects/apache-solr-4.0.0-BETA/example. > > And, the example-DIH is really working for me. I just wanted to use the > above folder in order to experience and try to configure the dataimport by > myself. > > On the thread I mentioned, someone wrote: > [[You need to find "apache-solr-solrj-4.0.jar" from your distribution and > put it in the classpath somewhere. Perhaps the easiest thing is to include > it in your core's "lib" directory.]] > So I tried that too, and therefore I mentioned SolrJ. > > Thanks. > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Gora Mohanty <g...@mimirtech.com> wrote: > >> On 18 August 2012 19:50, Val <val.hoff...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I'm having trouble using dataimport, so maybe you can help me. I've >> > downloaded beta version of Solr 4. >> > I already posted a question >> > here< >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12018422/classnotfoundexception-dataimport-dataimporthandler >> >, >> > so I don't want to repeat it. But in short: >> > I want to import from MySQL, and I configured everything as needed. I'm >> > getting a DataImportHandler exception, with no more output about the >> > nature of the error. >> [...] >> >> Are you indexing data using the DataImportHandler or SolrJ? >> The error, and your post seem to refer to DIH but the >> StackOverflow thread mentions SolrJ libraries. >> >> Are you building Solr 4.0.0-BETA from source, or are you using >> the binary distribution? Could you clarify what you mean by >> "example folder for my MySQL DB" in your StackOverflow question, >> i.e., please provide the filesystem path from where you are doing >> a "java -jar start.jar". If you are in >> apache-solr-4.0.0-BETA/example/example-DIH please read the >> README.txt there on how to start Solr for the >> DataImportHandler example configuration: You need to specify >> solr.solr.home. Everything should be ready to run from the binary >> distribution without needing to change any configuration files. >> >> Regards, >> Gora >> > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Val > > * > * > * * > * > * > * > webdesignpatterns.org > * > * > | twitter <http://twitter.com/wdesignpatterns> > *
