Scheduling DIH

[Tricia Williams <wi...@gmail.com>]

Hello,

    Is there a best way to schedule the DataImportHandler?  The idea 
being to schedule a delta-import every Sunday morning at 7am or perhaps 
every hour without human intervention.  Writing a cron job to do this 
wouldn't be difficult.  I'm just wondering is this a built in feature?

Tricia

Re: Scheduling DIH

[Noble Paul നോബിള്‍ नोब्ळ् <no...@gmail.com>]

right now a cron job is the only option.

building this into DIH has been a common request?

What do others think about this?

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Tricia Williams
<wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   Is there a best way to schedule the DataImportHandler?  The idea being to
> schedule a delta-import every Sunday morning at 7am or perhaps every hour
> without human intervention.  Writing a cron job to do this wouldn't be
> difficult.  I'm just wondering is this a built in feature?
>
> Tricia
>



-- 
--Noble Paul

Re: Scheduling DIH

[fergus mcmenemie <fe...@twig.me.uk>]

Hmmmm, my tuppence worth!

IMHO I do not think this should be built into solr. Doing it properly 
leads to all kinds of nasty platform dependent issues... will we then 
want to add notification features on success/failure? via email?

Ideally, all the scheduled activities on a system should be centralised 
in one place such as cron, or as few places as possible. From a system 
administration point of view there is then a single locations from where 
everything can be viewed and controlled. There are generally 
dependencies between different activities and having to chase around and 
configure many separate proprietary schedulers is a nuisance as well as 
being error prone.

Fergus.


Tricia Williams wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    Is there a best way to schedule the DataImportHandler?  The idea 
> being to schedule a delta-import every Sunday morning at 7am or perhaps 
> every hour without human intervention.  Writing a cron job to do this 
> wouldn't be difficult.  I'm just wondering is this a built in feature?
> 
> Tricia