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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By : Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya
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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By: Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya

Overview of this book

Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Response writer


The user who is searching is mainly interested in the search output/response. Rather than providing output in only a single format, if we allow them to select their choice of output/response format and return a response in that format, it will really make the user happy. The good news is that Solr provides various response writers for the end user's convenience.

Once the user runs a search, along with providing matching results, Solr provides a formatted and well-organized output result that becomes easy and attractive for the end user. Solr handles this through a response writer. Solr supports these response writers:

  • JSON (default)
  • Standard XML
  • XSLT
  • Binary
  • GeoJSON
  • Python
  • PHP
  • PHP serialized
  • Ruby
  • CSV
  • Velocity
  • Smile
  • XLSX

We can select the response writer by providing an appropriate value to the wt parameter. These are the response writer values for wt:​

Response writer

wt parameter value

JSON

json

Standard XML

xml

XSLT

xslt

Binary

javabin

GeoJSON

geojson

Python

python

PHP

php

PHP serialized

phps

Ruby

ruby

CSV...