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Solr Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Rafal Kuc
Book Image

Solr Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

By: Rafal Kuc

Overview of this book

This book is for intermediate Solr Developers who are willing to learn and implement Pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions. This edition will specifically appeal to developers who wish to quickly get to grips with the changes and new features of Apache Solr 5.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Solr Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Indexing data is one of the most crucial things in Lucene and Solr deployment. When your data is not indexed properly, your search results will be poor. When the search results are poor, it's almost certain the users will not be satisfied with the application that uses Solr. This is why we need our data to be prepared and indexed as timely and correctly as possible.

On the other hand, preparing data is not an easy task. Nowadays, we have more and more data floating around. We need to index multiple formats of data from multiple sources. Do we need to parse the data manually and prepare the data in XML format? The answer is no; we can let Solr do this for us. This chapter will concentrate on the indexing process and data preparation, starting with how to index data that is a binary PDF file to how to use Data Import Handler to fetch data from database and index it with Apache Solr and describing how we can detect the document language during indexation. We will also learn how...