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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by Jeff Rodenburg <je...@gmail.com> on 2006/05/16 07:40:27 UTC
Documentation?
I was checking around the solr site and pages at apache.org and wasn't
finding much. Before jumping into the code, I'd like to get as familiar
with solr as I could from existing docs or the like. Can someone point me
in the direction?
thanks,
jeff r.
RE: Documentation?
Posted by Brian Lucas <bl...@gmail.com>.
I've got some PHP and Ruby/Rails bindings I'll contribute soon enough as
well which will make integration with those environments fairly simple as
well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Yonik Seeley [mailto:yseeley@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:39 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Documentation?
On 5/16/06, Jeff Rodenburg <je...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was checking around the solr site and pages at apache.org and wasn't
> finding much.
Make sure you don't miss the Wiki, there's a fair amount of stuff there.
-Yonik
Re: Documentation?
Posted by Yonik Seeley <ys...@gmail.com>.
On 5/16/06, Jeff Rodenburg <je...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was checking around the solr site and pages at apache.org and wasn't
> finding much.
Make sure you don't miss the Wiki, there's a fair amount of stuff there.
-Yonik
Re: Documentation?
Posted by Jeff Rodenburg <je...@gmail.com>.
Thanks Chris/Yonik, don't know why I didn't see those yet.
-- j
On 5/15/06, Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org> wrote:
>
>
> : I was checking around the solr site and pages at apache.org and wasn't
> : finding much. Before jumping into the code, I'd like to get as familiar
> : with solr as I could from existing docs or the like. Can someone point
> me
> : in the direction?
>
> The best documentation about using Solr is the tutorial...
> http://incubator.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html
>
> The documentation on Solr's internals and developing Query plugins are
> pretty sparse at the moment. It's on my todo list (hopefull this week)
>
> If you want a good chunk of code to sink your teeth into as a starting
> point, take a look at StandardRequestHandler, and the APIs it uses from
> other classes.
>
> -Hoss
>
>
Re: Documentation?
Posted by Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>.
: I was checking around the solr site and pages at apache.org and wasn't
: finding much. Before jumping into the code, I'd like to get as familiar
: with solr as I could from existing docs or the like. Can someone point me
: in the direction?
The best documentation about using Solr is the tutorial...
http://incubator.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html
The documentation on Solr's internals and developing Query plugins are
pretty sparse at the moment. It's on my todo list (hopefull this week)
If you want a good chunk of code to sink your teeth into as a starting
point, take a look at StandardRequestHandler, and the APIs it uses from
other classes.
-Hoss
Re: Documentation?
Posted by Shalin Shekhar Mangar <sh...@gmail.com>.
Markus, as we are all volunteers here, nobody is paid to write code and
documentation. Everybody scratches their own itch. Complaining won't do a
lot of good here.
Most of Solr is not meant to be consumed as an API and therefore there is a
general lack of javadocs. Solr is generally used through configuration and
consumed over HTTP so you will find a lot of documentation on each of the
supported features. There is a lot of documentation on the wiki at
http://wiki.apache.org/solr . However the use-case you have is quite rare
and therefore not very well documented.
However, you will find that people are helpful if you are willing to give
them a chance. Starting a conversation in this tone will be a disadvantage.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:14 PM, psyron <ms...@psyron.com> wrote:
>
> I read a bit "Lucene in action" with a lot of nice example and was very
> optimistic to use solr, but i was really disappointed when I was looking
> for
> documentation for solr - even the javadoc is very poor, no explanation of
> the framework, about why there are so many different classes with similar
> names, everything is just confusing!
> I think, if somebody would have invested 1% of the time creating solr in
> his
> documentation, solr could be very easely used by everyone.
> I am not an expert in search engine, and i also don't think that the
> framework of solr is so complicated, but without documentation I just feel
> lost.
>
> What i really want to do is a kind of "custom sorting" very similar to
> that
> "DistanceComparator" example from "Lucene in Action", but there is really
> no
> examples out there how to do that...
>
> I admit, my own code most of time is not looking much better, but for such
> a
> big project i really expected much more documentation and comments for the
> api.
>
> Thanks,
> Markus
>
>
> jrodenburg wrote:
> >
> > I was checking around the solr site and pages at apache.org and wasn't
> > finding much. Before jumping into the code, I'd like to get as familiar
> > with solr as I could from existing docs or the like. Can someone point
> me
> > in the direction?
> >
> > thanks,
> > jeff r.
> >
> >
>
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>
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Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
Re: Documentation?
Posted by psyron <ms...@psyron.com>.
I read a bit "Lucene in action" with a lot of nice example and was very
optimistic to use solr, but i was really disappointed when I was looking for
documentation for solr - even the javadoc is very poor, no explanation of
the framework, about why there are so many different classes with similar
names, everything is just confusing!
I think, if somebody would have invested 1% of the time creating solr in his
documentation, solr could be very easely used by everyone.
I am not an expert in search engine, and i also don't think that the
framework of solr is so complicated, but without documentation I just feel
lost.
What i really want to do is a kind of "custom sorting" very similar to that
"DistanceComparator" example from "Lucene in Action", but there is really no
examples out there how to do that...
I admit, my own code most of time is not looking much better, but for such a
big project i really expected much more documentation and comments for the
api.
Thanks,
Markus
jrodenburg wrote:
>
> I was checking around the solr site and pages at apache.org and wasn't
> finding much. Before jumping into the code, I'd like to get as familiar
> with solr as I could from existing docs or the like. Can someone point me
> in the direction?
>
> thanks,
> jeff r.
>
>
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