[jira] [Commented] (JENA-1301) Drop Solr support from jena-text and jena-spatial

["Osma Suominen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Osma Suominen commented on JENA-1301:
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jena-spatial does have some unit tests for Solr, but my understanding is that they are not generally enabled as they require an embedded Solr server that in turn has additional dependencies that are commented out in the pom.xml.

> Drop Solr support from jena-text and jena-spatial
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>
>                 Key: JENA-1301
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1301
>             Project: Apache Jena
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Text
>    Affects Versions: Jena 3.2.0
>            Reporter: Osma Suominen
>            Assignee: Osma Suominen
>
> As discussed on the dev list, I propose dropping Solr support from jena-text and jena-spatial. Reasons:
> # It is not evident how to run it from the documentation.
> # There are no unit tests specific to Solr so whether it works cannot be easily verified over time.
> # It hasn't gained any of the features added to jena-text in recent years (e.g. multilingual indexing, stored literal values, various special analyzers)
> # The upgrade to Lucene 6 (JENA-1250) would probably break it further (since Solr 4.9.1 that we use depends on Lucene 4.9.1), though due to reasons 1 and 2 above I can't tell.
> # Elasticsearch support for jena-text is being developed by Anuj Kumar, offering the same kind of external text index functionality that the Solr support used to offer.
> # It's not fun to look at (and in effect have to maintain) code that you don't know if anyone is using or whether it's even working at all. I haven't heard from any users of jena-text/Solr in a long time. The [most recent exchange|http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.jena.user/3369] I could find on the users list was in 2013, and it ended up unclear of whether the user ever got it working. Okay there was [another thread|http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.jena.user/8892] in April/May 2016 where Solr was apparently being used, but the discussion was about other issues.
> I volunteer to do the actual cleaning up if we get agreement on this.



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