With dependencies I meant external jar dependencies. Perhaps extensions could have deps while leaving the "core" compilable without?
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com 5. feb. 2013 kl. 17:10 skrev Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk>: > By dependencies, do you mean other java classes? I was thinking of > splitting it out into a few classes, each of which is clearer in its > purpose. > > Upayavira > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013, at 02:26 PM, Jan Høydahl wrote: >> Wiki page exists already: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/post.jar >> >> I'm happy to consider a refactoring, especially if it make it SIMPLER to >> read and interact with and doesn't add a ton of mandatory dependencies. >> It should probably still be possible to say something like >> >> javac org/apache/solr/util/SimplePostTool.java >> java -cp . org.apache.solr.util.SimplePostTool -h >> >> That's just how I've been thinking so far though. If other committers are >> happy with abandoning the simple-ness and instead create a best-practices >> based feature-rich tool with dependencies, then I'll not object. >> >> -- >> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect >> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com >> Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com >> >> 5. feb. 2013 kl. 05:22 skrev Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk>: >> >>> Thx Jan, >>> >>> All I know is I've got a data set of 500k documents, Solr formatted, and >>> I want it to be as easy as possible to get them into Solr. I also want >>> to be able to show the benefit of multithreading. The outcome would >>> really be "make sure your code uses multiple threads to push to Solr" >>> rather than "use post.jar in production". I see post.jar as a >>> demonstration tool, rather than anything else, and am considering adding >>> another feature to enhance that. >>> >>> However, I did stall once I started looking at the SimplePostTool.jar >>> class, because it is loosing its connection with the term 'Simple'. >>> Adding multithreading, however useful, correct, whatever, would >>> completely push it over the edge. Thus, I think the proper approach is >>> to refactor the tool into a number of classes, and only then think about >>> adding multithreading as a completely separate affair. I'm more than >>> happy to have a go at that refactoring, especially if you're prepared to >>> review it. >>> >>> I guess the other thing that is much needed is a wiki page that details >>> the features of the tool, and also explains that its role is >>> educational, rather than anything else. >>> >>> Upayavira >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013, at 09:10 PM, Jan Høydahl wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Hmm, the tool is getting bloated for a one-class no-deps tool already :) >>>> Guess it would be useful too with real-life code examples using SolrJ and >>>> other libs as well (such as robots.txt lib, commons-cli etc), but whether >>>> that should be an extension of SimplePostTool or a totally new tool from >>>> scratch is something to discuss. Please bring on your ideas of how you >>>> plan to extend it, perhaps even simplifying the code in the process? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect >>>> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com >>>> Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com >>>> >>>> 3. feb. 2013 kl. 17:19 skrev Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk>: >>>> >>>>> I have a scenario in which I need to post 500,000 documents to Solr as a >>>>> test. I have these documents in XML files already formatted in Solr's >>>>> xml format. >>>>> >>>>> Posting to Solr using post.jar it takes 1m55s. With a bit of bash >>>>> jiggery-pokery, I was able to get this down to 1m08s by running four >>>>> concurrent post.jar instances, which strikes me as a significant >>>>> improvement. >>>>> >>>>> I'm considering adding multithreaded capabilities to post.jar, but >>>>> before I go to that effort, I wanted to see if anyone else would >>>>> consider it a useful feature. Given that the SimplePostTool is becoming >>>>> far from simple, I wanted to see whether the feature is likely to be >>>>> accepted before I put in the effort. Also, I would need to consider >>>>> which parts of the tool to add that to. Currently I only want it for >>>>> posting XML docs, but there's also crawling capabilities in it too. >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts? >>>>> >>>>> Upayavira >>>> >>