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Posted to solr-dev@lucene.apache.org by Matthias Epheser <ma...@gmx.at> on 2008/04/01 15:31:58 UTC
[GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Hello community
I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis about
"Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large indices" (working
title), that focuses on techniques like faceted browsing and field
collapsing.
The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my
theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of integration
into existing projects and a good self declaring user interface are
important things to consider when creating a faceting browsing solution.
As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript
Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous calls to
create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and propose
the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this library as a
Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already participated in gsoc and I
think it's a very good way for students to start contributing to an open
soure project.
I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test it
here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based javascript
library. Mootools are chosen because of the good inheritance mechanism,
thus you can create a very "clean" widget system using baseclasses. As
mentioned before, everything is created under the paradigm "keep it simple"
Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs that
act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser using the
solr url:
mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget consists of
its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is used to create the
appropriate response from solr. See
http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js for
the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an alpha
version:
- MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
including paging buttons
- MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These fields
can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" -> "image" as an example
- MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical facets
(see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the index.
- new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-updating and
delivers its fitting html after the user changes his selection.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing tasks,
timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next moday.
WDYT?
Best regard,
Matthias
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>.
: I need to look more at what it takes to be a mentor, but I'd be willing to do
: that.
Ryan: In case you haven't found it yet, the info (on the ASF side) committers need to
familiarize themselves with to be mentors is...
http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor
(note in particular there is an oddly named "code-awards" mailing list you
need to subscribe to, and you need to update committers/MailAlias.txt to
include your "Google Account")
BTW: Sweet demo Matthias.
-Hoss
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Matthias Epheser <ma...@gmx.at>.
Ryan McKinley schrieb:
> Hi Matthias-
>
> Your demo looks great. I'd love to see a general solr javascript library.
>
> I need to look more at what it takes to be a mentor, but I'd be willing
> to do that.
Great!
So the first "official" steps on my side should be creating a student
account on the GSOC site (which I just did) and adding a proposal
addressing "The Apache Software foundation" as target group (which I
will do tomorrow evening).
You should be able to "accept" this proposal in the mentor area.
I will write a short announcement on this list after I uploaded the
proposal.
matthias
>
> ryan
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
>> Hello community
>>
>> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis about
>> "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large indices"
>> (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted browsing and
>> field collapsing.
>>
>> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my
>> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of integration
>> into existing projects and a good self declaring user interface are
>> important things to consider when creating a faceting browsing solution.
>>
>> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript
>> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous calls to
>> create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and propose
>> the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this library as a
>> Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already participated in gsoc and
>> I think it's a very good way for students to start contributing to an
>> open soure project.
>>
>> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test it
>> here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
>> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based
>> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good
>> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget
>> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is created
>> under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>>
>> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs
>> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser using
>> the solr url:
>>
>> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>>
>> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget consists
>> of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is used to create
>> the appropriate response from solr. See
>> http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js for
>> the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an alpha
>> version:
>>
>> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
>> including paging buttons
>>
>> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These
>> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" -> "image" as
>> an example
>>
>> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical
>> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
>> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the index.
>>
>> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>>
>> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-updating
>> and delivers its fitting html after the user changes his selection.
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing tasks,
>> timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next moday.
>>
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Best regard,
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Ryan McKinley <ry...@gmail.com>.
Hi Matthias-
Your demo looks great. I'd love to see a general solr javascript
library.
I need to look more at what it takes to be a mentor, but I'd be
willing to do that.
ryan
On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
> Hello community
>
> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis about
> "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large
> indices" (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted
> browsing and field collapsing.
>
> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my
> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of
> integration into existing projects and a good self declaring user
> interface are important things to consider when creating a faceting
> browsing solution.
>
> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript
> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous calls
> to create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and
> propose the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this
> library as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already
> participated in gsoc and I think it's a very good way for students
> to start contributing to an open soure project.
>
> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test
> it here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based
> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good
> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget
> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is created
> under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>
> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs
> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser
> using the solr url:
>
> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>
> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget
> consists of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is used
> to create the appropriate response from solr. See http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js
> for the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an
> alpha version:
>
> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
> including paging buttons
>
> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These
> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" -> "image"
> as an example
>
> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical
> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the index.
>
> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>
> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-updating
> and delivers its fitting html after the user changes his selection.
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing tasks,
> timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next moday.
>
>
> WDYT?
>
> Best regard,
> Matthias
>
>
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Matthias Epheser <ma...@gmx.at>.
Erik Hatcher schrieb:
> Matthias,
>
> This stuff looks great! Certainly +1 on you continuing these efforts.
Thanks!
>
> Regarding your choice of MooTools: have you considered using jQuery
> instead? The reason I ask is that we now have a jQuery-based schema
> browser in Solr's trunk and thus it is already there and usable within
> the Solr codebase. Many of my super savvy JavaScript/AJAX savvy pals
> have mentioned they prefer jQuery over MooTools, prototype, etc. I'm a
> bit out of my league here though, so certainly defer to others expertise
> in this area.
The reason I chose mootools was the nice support for class inheritance,
so you are able to create a widget hierarchy in a very object orientated
way. I have to admit that I lack knowledge about jQuery here (only have
experience with mootools, dojo and prototype), but for sure I am willing
to look at all reasonalbe technical possibilities.
I think - and your posting is a proof for that - that the decision for
the concrete tools to use should be the first item on the agenda of this
project and it also should be discussed with you people here on the
list, who have a better look on the "big picture" of solr than me.
>
> Perhaps already on your roadmap, I'd love to see Solr integration with
> SIMILE's Timeline, Exhibit, and their other viz stuff. I put some basic
> support for both Timeline and Exhibit into Flare.
Good proposals, IMHO when we have created a stable base library, it
should be "easy" to create implementations for various external
javascript libraries like stuff on SIMILE or google maps and the like.
matthias
>
> Erik
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
>> Hello community
>>
>> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis about
>> "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large indices"
>> (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted browsing and
>> field collapsing.
>>
>> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my
>> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of integration
>> into existing projects and a good self declaring user interface are
>> important things to consider when creating a faceting browsing solution.
>>
>> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript
>> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous calls to
>> create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and propose
>> the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this library as a
>> Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already participated in gsoc and
>> I think it's a very good way for students to start contributing to an
>> open soure project.
>>
>> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test it
>> here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
>> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based
>> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good
>> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget
>> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is created
>> under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>>
>> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs
>> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser using
>> the solr url:
>>
>> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>>
>> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget consists
>> of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is used to create
>> the appropriate response from solr. See
>> http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js for
>> the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an alpha
>> version:
>>
>> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
>> including paging buttons
>>
>> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These
>> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" -> "image" as
>> an example
>>
>> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical
>> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
>> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the index.
>>
>> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>>
>> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-updating
>> and delivers its fitting html after the user changes his selection.
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing tasks,
>> timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next moday.
>>
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Best regard,
>> Matthias
>>
>
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Matthias Epheser <ma...@gmx.at>.
Ryan McKinley schrieb:
> found it. On page 9 of a completely unordered/unsearchable list.... you
> would think google could add search/sort no?
>
> In general looks good. We can discuss implementation details later, but
> one thing to consider is taking this opportunity to build a better
> example data set we all can work with:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-131
For my demo (because I want to compare technologies and need easy
generated testdata), I created a small TestDataGenerator that uses SolrJ
and that is configiurable within a spring context.
You can there define multiple fields that are randomly populated,
depending on their type. I have types for:
- A choice of String values
- Integer/Float ranges
- A hierarchic String structure
- Date fields
- UUID fields
All fields may depend on other fields' values, and can be multivalued or
not. See attached applicationContext.xml for details. I think with we
should be able to generate your Books/Movies example data set with this
tool very easily.
matthias
>
> I clicked the "I'm willing to mentor this student" button, and we will
> see what happens.
>
> ryan
>
>
>
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
>> Ryan McKinley schrieb:
>>> Hey Matthias-
>>> I just checked the pending Application list and don't see yours there
>>> (the interface isn't very good -- Apache has ~200 applicants seems to
>>> be designed for ~10) -- I'll check again tomorrow in case they
>>> manually check them before posting.
>>
>> If it helps searching, the title should read "SOLR: Create a
>> javascript client library for Apache Solr"
>>
>>> Also, would you mind posting the text to this mailing list or on the
>>> wiki? The application is only viewable to official mentors -- but we
>>> should get broader support/involvement before making any decisions.
>>
>> As there are 2 sections (the short description describing the project
>> and the larger one including personal information), here is a repost
>> of the first one:
>>
>> ~~~~oooo~~~~
>>
>> I want to create a javascript client library for Apache Solr, that
>> consists of following items:
>>
>> - HTML to create the page layout
>> - CSS to create the looks of the widgets
>> - A javascript library containing different widgets, every widget
>> represents a (part of a) solr result. Every widget is bound to a html
>> node where the result is deplayed.
>> - Postprocessing to translate the SOLR response into the fitting html.
>>
>> There will be a javascript "container" that acts as a registry for the
>> widgets and as connection manager to solr. The postprocessing of the
>> result is a matter of discussions, possible solutions would be xslt or
>> custom responsewriters on the server side (solr), as well as xml or
>> json processing on the client side (javascript in the browser). After
>> a user input, every widget should be automatically updated.
>>
>> Possible widgets are:
>>
>> - A PageableResult widget to display a solr response
>> - FacetWidgets that display a faceted browsing menu, including
>> dependencies on other widgets
>> - A TreeFacetWidget to support hierarchical faceted data
>> - A FulltextSearch widget to create "search as you type" functionality
>> - DateRange widgets using charts, or timelines or the likes for
>> selecting date ranges
>> - Ports to google maps or other external javascript libraries
>>
>> Deliverables are:
>>
>> - A basic javascript library containing the container and the widget
>> baseclass
>> - Code intelligence for the result postprocessing
>> - Basic widgets that support a page result, faceting and searching.
>> - User Documentation: Guides for integration of the javascript widgets
>> into html pages as well as for developing new widgets.
>>
>> ~~~~oooo~~~~
>>
>> As already mentioned, I tried to put the description of my demo into a
>> more general proposal. Of course, I am still able to modify the text
>> if some information is missing.
>>
>> matthias
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ryan
>>> On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Matthias Epheser wrote
>>>> Erik Hatcher schrieb:
>>>>> Matthias,
>>>>> This stuff looks great! Certainly +1 on you continuing these
>>>>> efforts.
>>>>> Regarding your choice of MooTools: have you considered using jQuery
>>>>> instead? The reason I ask is that we now have a jQuery-based
>>>>> schema browser in Solr's trunk and thus it is already there and
>>>>> usable within the Solr codebase. Many of my super savvy
>>>>> JavaScript/AJAX savvy pals have mentioned they prefer jQuery over
>>>>> MooTools, prototype, etc. I'm a bit out of my league here though,
>>>>> so certainly defer to others expertise in this area.
>>>>
>>>> I just uploaded my "official" proposal to the Google summer of code
>>>> website. I tried to write a more "general" description of the tasks,
>>>> as my last mail was more technical and tied to the demo.
>>>>
>>>> I think we then have to start a discussion together about a detailed
>>>> roadmap and some technical decisions that need to be made, mainly
>>>> the javascript library to use and how (and where) the postprocessing
>>>> of the solr result should happen.
>>>>
>>>> matthias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps already on your roadmap, I'd love to see Solr integration
>>>>> with SIMILE's Timeline, Exhibit, and their other viz stuff. I put
>>>>> some basic support for both Timeline and Exhibit into Flare.
>>>>> Erik
>>>>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
>>>>>> Hello community
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis
>>>>>> about "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large
>>>>>> indices" (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted
>>>>>> browsing and field collapsing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my
>>>>>> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of
>>>>>> integration into existing projects and a good self declaring user
>>>>>> interface are important things to consider when creating a
>>>>>> faceting browsing solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript
>>>>>> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous
>>>>>> calls to create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and
>>>>>> propose the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this
>>>>>> library as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already
>>>>>> participated in gsoc and I think it's a very good way for students
>>>>>> to start contributing to an open soure project.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test
>>>>>> it here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
>>>>>> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based
>>>>>> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good
>>>>>> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget
>>>>>> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is
>>>>>> created under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs
>>>>>> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser
>>>>>> using the solr url:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget
>>>>>> consists of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is
>>>>>> used to create the appropriate response from solr. See
>>>>>> http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js for
>>>>>> the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an
>>>>>> alpha version:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
>>>>>> including paging buttons
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These
>>>>>> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" ->
>>>>>> "image" as an example
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical
>>>>>> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
>>>>>> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the
>>>>>> index.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is
>>>>>> self-updating and delivers its fitting html after the user changes
>>>>>> his selection.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing
>>>>>> tasks, timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next
>>>>>> moday.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WDYT?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regard,
>>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Ryan McKinley <ry...@gmail.com>.
found it. On page 9 of a completely unordered/unsearchable list....
you would think google could add search/sort no?
In general looks good. We can discuss implementation details later,
but one thing to consider is taking this opportunity to build a better
example data set we all can work with:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-131
I clicked the "I'm willing to mentor this student" button, and we will
see what happens.
ryan
On Apr 3, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
> Ryan McKinley schrieb:
>> Hey Matthias-
>> I just checked the pending Application list and don't see yours
>> there (the interface isn't very good -- Apache has ~200 applicants
>> seems to be designed for ~10) -- I'll check again tomorrow in case
>> they manually check them before posting.
>
> If it helps searching, the title should read "SOLR: Create a
> javascript client library for Apache Solr"
>
>> Also, would you mind posting the text to this mailing list or on
>> the wiki? The application is only viewable to official mentors --
>> but we should get broader support/involvement before making any
>> decisions.
>
> As there are 2 sections (the short description describing the
> project and the larger one including personal information), here is
> a repost of the first one:
>
> ~~~~oooo~~~~
>
> I want to create a javascript client library for Apache Solr, that
> consists of following items:
>
> - HTML to create the page layout
> - CSS to create the looks of the widgets
> - A javascript library containing different widgets, every widget
> represents a (part of a) solr result. Every widget is bound to a
> html node where the result is deplayed.
> - Postprocessing to translate the SOLR response into the fitting html.
>
> There will be a javascript "container" that acts as a registry for
> the widgets and as connection manager to solr. The postprocessing of
> the result is a matter of discussions, possible solutions would be
> xslt or custom responsewriters on the server side (solr), as well as
> xml or json processing on the client side (javascript in the
> browser). After a user input, every widget should be automatically
> updated.
>
> Possible widgets are:
>
> - A PageableResult widget to display a solr response
> - FacetWidgets that display a faceted browsing menu, including
> dependencies on other widgets
> - A TreeFacetWidget to support hierarchical faceted data
> - A FulltextSearch widget to create "search as you type" functionality
> - DateRange widgets using charts, or timelines or the likes for
> selecting date ranges
> - Ports to google maps or other external javascript libraries
>
> Deliverables are:
>
> - A basic javascript library containing the container and the widget
> baseclass
> - Code intelligence for the result postprocessing
> - Basic widgets that support a page result, faceting and searching.
> - User Documentation: Guides for integration of the javascript
> widgets into html pages as well as for developing new widgets.
>
> ~~~~oooo~~~~
>
> As already mentioned, I tried to put the description of my demo into
> a more general proposal. Of course, I am still able to modify the
> text if some information is missing.
>
> matthias
>
>> Thanks
>> Ryan
>> On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Matthias Epheser wrote
>>> Erik Hatcher schrieb:
>>>> Matthias,
>>>> This stuff looks great! Certainly +1 on you continuing these
>>>> efforts.
>>>> Regarding your choice of MooTools: have you considered using
>>>> jQuery instead? The reason I ask is that we now have a jQuery-
>>>> based schema browser in Solr's trunk and thus it is already there
>>>> and usable within the Solr codebase. Many of my super savvy
>>>> JavaScript/AJAX savvy pals have mentioned they prefer jQuery over
>>>> MooTools, prototype, etc. I'm a bit out of my league here
>>>> though, so certainly defer to others expertise in this area.
>>>
>>> I just uploaded my "official" proposal to the Google summer of
>>> code website. I tried to write a more "general" description of the
>>> tasks, as my last mail was more technical and tied to the demo.
>>>
>>> I think we then have to start a discussion together about a
>>> detailed roadmap and some technical decisions that need to be
>>> made, mainly the javascript library to use and how (and where) the
>>> postprocessing of the solr result should happen.
>>>
>>> matthias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Perhaps already on your roadmap, I'd love to see Solr integration
>>>> with SIMILE's Timeline, Exhibit, and their other viz stuff. I
>>>> put some basic support for both Timeline and Exhibit into Flare.
>>>> Erik
>>>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
>>>>> Hello community
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis
>>>>> about "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large
>>>>> indices" (working title), that focuses on techniques like
>>>>> faceted browsing and field collapsing.
>>>>>
>>>>> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of
>>>>> my theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of
>>>>> integration into existing projects and a good self declaring
>>>>> user interface are important things to consider when creating a
>>>>> faceting browsing solution.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable
>>>>> Javascript Widget Library that directly queries solr using
>>>>> asynchronuous calls to create a very fast, dynamic and easy to
>>>>> use data browser.
>>>>>
>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>
>>>>> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and
>>>>> propose the implementation, elaboration and documentation of
>>>>> this library as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already
>>>>> participated in gsoc and I think it's a very good way for
>>>>> students to start contributing to an open soure project.
>>>>>
>>>>> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can
>>>>> test it here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
>>>>> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata
>>>>> generator.
>>>>>
>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>
>>>>> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based
>>>>> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good
>>>>> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget
>>>>> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is
>>>>> created under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty
>>>>> divs that act as "targets" and then create an instance of
>>>>> Moobrowser using the solr url:
>>>>>
>>>>> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>>>>>
>>>>> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget
>>>>> consists of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is
>>>>> used to create the appropriate response from solr. See http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js
>>>>> for the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported
>>>>> in an alpha version:
>>>>>
>>>>> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
>>>>> including paging buttons
>>>>>
>>>>> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These
>>>>> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" ->
>>>>> "image" as an example
>>>>>
>>>>> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display
>>>>> hierarchical facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -
>>>>> > ..
>>>>> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the
>>>>> index.
>>>>>
>>>>> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>>>>>
>>>>> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-
>>>>> updating and delivers its fitting html after the user changes
>>>>> his selection.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>
>>>>> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing
>>>>> tasks, timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next
>>>>> moday.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> WDYT?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regard,
>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>
>>>
>
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Matthias Epheser <ma...@gmx.at>.
Ryan McKinley schrieb:
> Hey Matthias-
>
> I just checked the pending Application list and don't see yours there
> (the interface isn't very good -- Apache has ~200 applicants seems to be
> designed for ~10) -- I'll check again tomorrow in case they manually
> check them before posting.
If it helps searching, the title should read "SOLR: Create a javascript
client library for Apache Solr"
>
> Also, would you mind posting the text to this mailing list or on the
> wiki? The application is only viewable to official mentors -- but we
> should get broader support/involvement before making any decisions.
As there are 2 sections (the short description describing the project
and the larger one including personal information), here is a repost of
the first one:
~~~~oooo~~~~
I want to create a javascript client library for Apache Solr, that
consists of following items:
- HTML to create the page layout
- CSS to create the looks of the widgets
- A javascript library containing different widgets, every widget
represents a (part of a) solr result. Every widget is bound to a html
node where the result is deplayed.
- Postprocessing to translate the SOLR response into the fitting html.
There will be a javascript "container" that acts as a registry for the
widgets and as connection manager to solr. The postprocessing of the
result is a matter of discussions, possible solutions would be xslt or
custom responsewriters on the server side (solr), as well as xml or json
processing on the client side (javascript in the browser). After a user
input, every widget should be automatically updated.
Possible widgets are:
- A PageableResult widget to display a solr response
- FacetWidgets that display a faceted browsing menu, including
dependencies on other widgets
- A TreeFacetWidget to support hierarchical faceted data
- A FulltextSearch widget to create "search as you type" functionality
- DateRange widgets using charts, or timelines or the likes for
selecting date ranges
- Ports to google maps or other external javascript libraries
Deliverables are:
- A basic javascript library containing the container and the widget
baseclass
- Code intelligence for the result postprocessing
- Basic widgets that support a page result, faceting and searching.
- User Documentation: Guides for integration of the javascript widgets
into html pages as well as for developing new widgets.
~~~~oooo~~~~
As already mentioned, I tried to put the description of my demo into a
more general proposal. Of course, I am still able to modify the text if
some information is missing.
matthias
> Thanks
> Ryan
>
>
>
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Matthias Epheser wrote
>> Erik Hatcher schrieb:
>>> Matthias,
>>> This stuff looks great! Certainly +1 on you continuing these efforts.
>>> Regarding your choice of MooTools: have you considered using jQuery
>>> instead? The reason I ask is that we now have a jQuery-based schema
>>> browser in Solr's trunk and thus it is already there and usable
>>> within the Solr codebase. Many of my super savvy JavaScript/AJAX
>>> savvy pals have mentioned they prefer jQuery over MooTools,
>>> prototype, etc. I'm a bit out of my league here though, so certainly
>>> defer to others expertise in this area.
>>
>> I just uploaded my "official" proposal to the Google summer of code
>> website. I tried to write a more "general" description of the tasks,
>> as my last mail was more technical and tied to the demo.
>>
>> I think we then have to start a discussion together about a detailed
>> roadmap and some technical decisions that need to be made, mainly the
>> javascript library to use and how (and where) the postprocessing of
>> the solr result should happen.
>>
>> matthias
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Perhaps already on your roadmap, I'd love to see Solr integration
>>> with SIMILE's Timeline, Exhibit, and their other viz stuff. I put
>>> some basic support for both Timeline and Exhibit into Flare.
>>> Erik
>>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
>>>> Hello community
>>>>
>>>> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis about
>>>> "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large indices"
>>>> (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted browsing
>>>> and field collapsing.
>>>>
>>>> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my
>>>> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of
>>>> integration into existing projects and a good self declaring user
>>>> interface are important things to consider when creating a faceting
>>>> browsing solution.
>>>>
>>>> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript
>>>> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous calls
>>>> to create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>>>>
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>
>>>> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and
>>>> propose the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this
>>>> library as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already
>>>> participated in gsoc and I think it's a very good way for students
>>>> to start contributing to an open soure project.
>>>>
>>>> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test
>>>> it here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
>>>> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>>>>
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>
>>>> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based
>>>> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good
>>>> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget
>>>> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is created
>>>> under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs
>>>> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser
>>>> using the solr url:
>>>>
>>>> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>>>>
>>>> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget
>>>> consists of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is used
>>>> to create the appropriate response from solr. See
>>>> http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js for
>>>> the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an
>>>> alpha version:
>>>>
>>>> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
>>>> including paging buttons
>>>>
>>>> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These
>>>> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" -> "image"
>>>> as an example
>>>>
>>>> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical
>>>> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
>>>> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the index.
>>>>
>>>> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>>>>
>>>> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-updating
>>>> and delivers its fitting html after the user changes his selection.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>
>>>> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing tasks,
>>>> timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next moday.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WDYT?
>>>>
>>>> Best regard,
>>>> Matthias
>>>>
>>
>
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Ryan McKinley <ry...@gmail.com>.
Hey Matthias-
I just checked the pending Application list and don't see yours there
(the interface isn't very good -- Apache has ~200 applicants seems to
be designed for ~10) -- I'll check again tomorrow in case they
manually check them before posting.
Also, would you mind posting the text to this mailing list or on the
wiki? The application is only viewable to official mentors -- but we
should get broader support/involvement before making any decisions.
Thanks
Ryan
On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Matthias Epheser wrote
> Erik Hatcher schrieb:
>> Matthias,
>> This stuff looks great! Certainly +1 on you continuing these
>> efforts.
>> Regarding your choice of MooTools: have you considered using jQuery
>> instead? The reason I ask is that we now have a jQuery-based
>> schema browser in Solr's trunk and thus it is already there and
>> usable within the Solr codebase. Many of my super savvy JavaScript/
>> AJAX savvy pals have mentioned they prefer jQuery over MooTools,
>> prototype, etc. I'm a bit out of my league here though, so
>> certainly defer to others expertise in this area.
>
> I just uploaded my "official" proposal to the Google summer of code
> website. I tried to write a more "general" description of the tasks,
> as my last mail was more technical and tied to the demo.
>
> I think we then have to start a discussion together about a detailed
> roadmap and some technical decisions that need to be made, mainly
> the javascript library to use and how (and where) the postprocessing
> of the solr result should happen.
>
> matthias
>
>
>
>
>> Perhaps already on your roadmap, I'd love to see Solr integration
>> with SIMILE's Timeline, Exhibit, and their other viz stuff. I put
>> some basic support for both Timeline and Exhibit into Flare.
>> Erik
>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
>>> Hello community
>>>
>>> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis
>>> about "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large
>>> indices" (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted
>>> browsing and field collapsing.
>>>
>>> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my
>>> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of
>>> integration into existing projects and a good self declaring user
>>> interface are important things to consider when creating a
>>> faceting browsing solution.
>>>
>>> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript
>>> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous
>>> calls to create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and
>>> propose the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this
>>> library as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already
>>> participated in gsoc and I think it's a very good way for students
>>> to start contributing to an open soure project.
>>>
>>> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test
>>> it here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
>>> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based
>>> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good
>>> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget
>>> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is
>>> created under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>>>
>>> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs
>>> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser
>>> using the solr url:
>>>
>>> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>>>
>>> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget
>>> consists of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is
>>> used to create the appropriate response from solr. See http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js
>>> for the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in
>>> an alpha version:
>>>
>>> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
>>> including paging buttons
>>>
>>> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These
>>> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" ->
>>> "image" as an example
>>>
>>> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical
>>> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
>>> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the
>>> index.
>>>
>>> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>>>
>>> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-
>>> updating and delivers its fitting html after the user changes his
>>> selection.
>>>
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing
>>> tasks, timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next
>>> moday.
>>>
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>>
>>> Best regard,
>>> Matthias
>>>
>
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Matthias Epheser <ma...@gmx.at>.
Erik Hatcher schrieb:
> Matthias,
>
> This stuff looks great! Certainly +1 on you continuing these efforts.
>
> Regarding your choice of MooTools: have you considered using jQuery
> instead? The reason I ask is that we now have a jQuery-based schema
> browser in Solr's trunk and thus it is already there and usable within
> the Solr codebase. Many of my super savvy JavaScript/AJAX savvy pals
> have mentioned they prefer jQuery over MooTools, prototype, etc. I'm a
> bit out of my league here though, so certainly defer to others expertise
> in this area.
I just uploaded my "official" proposal to the Google summer of code
website. I tried to write a more "general" description of the tasks, as
my last mail was more technical and tied to the demo.
I think we then have to start a discussion together about a detailed
roadmap and some technical decisions that need to be made, mainly the
javascript library to use and how (and where) the postprocessing of the
solr result should happen.
matthias
>
> Perhaps already on your roadmap, I'd love to see Solr integration with
> SIMILE's Timeline, Exhibit, and their other viz stuff. I put some basic
> support for both Timeline and Exhibit into Flare.
>
> Erik
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
>> Hello community
>>
>> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis about
>> "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large indices"
>> (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted browsing and
>> field collapsing.
>>
>> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my
>> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of integration
>> into existing projects and a good self declaring user interface are
>> important things to consider when creating a faceting browsing solution.
>>
>> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript
>> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous calls to
>> create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and propose
>> the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this library as a
>> Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already participated in gsoc and
>> I think it's a very good way for students to start contributing to an
>> open soure project.
>>
>> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test it
>> here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
>> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based
>> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good
>> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget
>> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is created
>> under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>>
>> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs
>> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser using
>> the solr url:
>>
>> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>>
>> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget consists
>> of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is used to create
>> the appropriate response from solr. See
>> http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js for
>> the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an alpha
>> version:
>>
>> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
>> including paging buttons
>>
>> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These
>> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" -> "image" as
>> an example
>>
>> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical
>> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
>> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the index.
>>
>> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>>
>> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-updating
>> and delivers its fitting html after the user changes his selection.
>>
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing tasks,
>> timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next moday.
>>
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Best regard,
>> Matthias
>>
>
Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library
Posted by Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>.
Matthias,
This stuff looks great! Certainly +1 on you continuing these efforts.
Regarding your choice of MooTools: have you considered using jQuery
instead? The reason I ask is that we now have a jQuery-based schema
browser in Solr's trunk and thus it is already there and usable
within the Solr codebase. Many of my super savvy JavaScript/AJAX
savvy pals have mentioned they prefer jQuery over MooTools,
prototype, etc. I'm a bit out of my league here though, so certainly
defer to others expertise in this area.
Perhaps already on your roadmap, I'd love to see Solr integration
with SIMILE's Timeline, Exhibit, and their other viz stuff. I put
some basic support for both Timeline and Exhibit into Flare.
Erik
On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
> Hello community
>
> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis
> about "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large
> indices" (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted
> browsing and field collapsing.
>
> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my
> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of
> integration into existing projects and a good self declaring user
> interface are important things to consider when creating a faceting
> browsing solution.
>
> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript
> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous calls
> to create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and
> propose the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this
> library as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already
> participated in gsoc and I think it's a very good way for students
> to start contributing to an open soure project.
>
> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test
> it here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based
> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good
> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget
> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is
> created under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>
> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs
> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser
> using the solr url:
>
> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>
> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget
> consists of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is used
> to create the appropriate response from solr. See http://
> lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js for the
> js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an alpha
> version:
>
> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"
> including paging buttons
>
> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These
> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" -> "image"
> as an example
>
> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical
> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the index.
>
> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>
> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-
> updating and delivers its fitting html after the user changes his
> selection.
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing
> tasks, timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next moday.
>
>
> WDYT?
>
> Best regard,
> Matthias
>