Re: Introducing Solrstrap: A blazing fast tool for querying Solr in a Googleish fashion

[Fergus McDowall <fe...@gmail.com>]

Hi Jan og takk for sist :)

More stuff is coming! Pageing and facets are the next things...

Fergus




On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Jan Høydahl <ja...@cominvent.com> wrote:

> Great Fergus,
>
> You have really been working on this since the MeetUp in Oslo! Impressive
> how much you can do with little code.
>
> Have you started thinking about UI widget support for query box,
> breadcrumb path, facets, paging controls etc? Are you going to budle in a
> particular UI widget framework? Plans for layout in general?
>
> --
> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
> Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com
>
> 17. feb. 2013 kl. 17:13 skrev Fergus McDowall <fe...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Jack
> >
> > That sounds entirely reasonable- yes, it probably would make sense.
> >
> > Fergus
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Jack Park <ja...@topicquests.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Fergus,
> >>
> >> Would it make sense to you to switch to the Apache 2 license so that
> >> your project can "play nice" in the apache ecosystem?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Jack
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Fergus McDowall
> >> <fe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Erik
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the great feedback. It fills me with joy to know that
> another
> >>> human being has chosen to use Solrstrap
> >>>
> >>> 1) I have added a couple more CONST variables to the code to allow the
> >>> implementer to specify the names of the hit body and hit title
> >>> (re: exampledocs/*.xml)
> >>>
> >>> 2) In order to pass a full document to the hit-template you could
> simply
> >> to
> >>> this:
> >>>
> >>>    rs.append(hitTemplate({doc: result.response.docs[i]}));
> >>>
> >>> and then change the hit template so that it references each hit as
> "doc"
> >>> and subfields thereof {{doc.somefield}}
> >>>
> >>>    <script id="hit-template" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
> >>>    <div class="entry">
> >>>    <b>{{doc.title}}</b><br>
> >>>    {{doc.text}}
> >>>    {{doc.metadata}}
> >>>    </div>
> >>>    </script>
> >>>
> >>> 3) As for the license- I take your ribbing in the spirit in which it
> was
> >>> intended :) Seriously though- this is my first open source
> contribution,
> >> so
> >>> I haven't given licensing a lot of though. What would a more
> appropriate
> >>> license be?
> >>>
> >>> Fergie
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatcher@gmail.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Fergie -
> >>>>
> >>>> Nice!
> >>>>
> >>>> I was able to get this working on a Solr 4.1 "example" instance
> >> following
> >>>> these steps:
> >>>>
> >>>>  * Adjusting SERVERROOT in bootstrap/js/solrstrap.js to
> >>>> http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select/
> >>>>  * Changed line #38 in the same file to this:
> >>>>
> >>>>            rs.append(hitTemplate({title: result.response.docs[i].name,
> >>>> text: result.response.docs[i].text}));
> >>>>
> >>>> Just changing ".title" to ".name" since Solr's exampledocs/*.xml files
> >> use
> >>>> "name" not "title".
> >>>>
> >>>> I like projects like this, making it really point and click easy to
> see
> >>>> and work with Solr.  I'll just point out the important caveat that you
> >>>> mention, that it's "Designed for "open" solr instances" and "needs
> clear
> >>>> access to /select", as this is something easy to overlook at first
> >>>> (beautiful) glance and think we can just go to production without
> taking
> >>>> the necessary other steps to prevent Solr from being exposed directly.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is a nice start to a fun way to get started with Solr.
> >>>>
> >>>> A few questions:
> >>>>
> >>>> What would it take to get the full document object passed into the hit
> >>>> template?  And what would that hit template then look like?
>  (navigating
> >>>> say a "doc" object in the template rather than each field being passed
> >>>> explicitly)
> >>>>
> >>>> Right now it's called from the above line of code (is hitTemplate()
> >>>> mapping to the id="hit-template" in solrstramp.html part of handlebars
> >>>> magic?  Or is this explicit somewhere?)
> >>>>
> >>>> Here's the current hit template:
> >>>>
> >>>>    <script id="hit-template" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
> >>>>    <div class="entry">
> >>>>    <b>{{title}}</b><br>
> >>>>    {{text}}
> >>>>    </div>
> >>>>    </script>
> >>>>
> >>>> And finally... GPL?! ewww, why?! (-1)  :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Well played, Fergus!
> >>>>
> >>>>        Erik
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Feb 17, 2013, at 05:35 , Fergus McDowall wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Solrstrap is a very basic Query-Result interface for Solr. Solrstrap
> >> is
> >>>> intended to be a starting point for those building web interfaces that
> >> talk
> >>>> to Solr, or a very lightweight admin tool for querying Solr in a
> >> Googleish
> >>>> fashion.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cool things about Solrstrap:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   * Requires only local installation- easy to set up
> >>>>>   * Access to all Bootstrap functionality. Can be easily extended in
> >> a
> >>>> Bootstrappy way.
> >>>>>   * Blazing fast
> >>>>>   * Uses less bandwidth
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Use it as you see fit. Merciless criticism and fawning praise equally
> >>>> welcome.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> See http://fergiemcdowall.github.com/solrstrap/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog/2013/02/17/introducing-solrstrap/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fergus
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
>
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