We've got a lot of data indexed, and now it's time to actually use Solr for what it is intended to do—searching, also known as querying. When your application interacts with Solr, it will more than likely use HTTP, either directly via common APIs or indirectly through one of Solr's client APIs. However, as we demonstrate Solr's capabilities in this chapter, we'll use Solr's web-based admin interface. In Chapter 1, Quick Starting Solr, we covered the basics of Solr's admin interface. To use the admin query interface, click on the mbartists core link in the left navigation column, and then click Query.

You will see a window as shown in the following screenshot, after clicking on the Query link:

The URL is http://localhost:8983/solr/#/mbartists/query. This form has a subset of the options you might specify to run a search. Let's do a quick search. In the q box, we'll leave the default of *:* (an asterisk, colon, and then another asterisk). Admittedly, that is...