base64 support & containers

[Ben Incani <be...@datacomit.com.au>]

Hi Solr users,
 
Does Solr support/or will in the future base64 encoded XML documents so
that binary blobs can be added to the index?

I have been using this solr client by Darren Vengroff successfully.  It
easily plugs-in into the Solr package and could also use binary
functions in org.apache.solr.util.XML
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-20

So far I have been storing binary data in the lucene index, I realise
this is not an optimal solution, but so far I have not found a java
container system to manage documents.  Can anyone recommend one?

Regards,
 
Ben

Re: base64 support & containers

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: Does Solr support/or will in the future base64 encoded XML documents so
: that binary blobs can be added to the index?

I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question completely ... if you have
binary data that you want to shove into a stored field, you should
certinaly be able to base64 encode it in your client and shove it into
Solr using a "string" field type -- but your use of hte phrase "base64
encoded XML documents" has me thinkingthatthere is more to your question
involving an "advanced" use of XML that i'm not familiar with -- can you
elaborate?



-Hoss