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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

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

Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

3.8 (5)
By: Nair, 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.
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Ruby Client API


Like JavaScript and SolrJ, Ruby can also connect with Solr using the Solr API and performs various operations such as search, indexing, and removal over the HTTP protocol. Solr also provides sufficient API support for the Ruby programming language. So, the application that builds on a Ruby platform can also take advantage of Solr. Solr reverts a query response in Ruby format, which can be interpreted easily in Ruby programming. 

For Ruby applications, to communicate with Solr, rsolr is an extensive library. It provides all the functionalities needed to meet your expectations. To install the rsolr dependency, please refer to http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/rsolr. To install rsolr, use this command:

gem install rsolr

Now let's search using rsolr for the query q=ipod:

require 'rsolr'

solr = RSolr.connect :url => 'http://localhost:8983/solr/techproducts'

response = solr.get 'select', :params => {:q => 'ipod',:fl=>'id,name',:wt=>:ruby}

puts response

Response:

{"responseHeader...

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