In the previous entry showing how to develop custom Solr functionalities we are showing how to implement your own Solr filter. Today I’ll show you how to implement your own exchange rate provider, so we will implement the ExchangeRateProvider for the CurrencyField type introduced in Solr 3.6.
Month: June 2012
Rich documents processing – on the search or application side?
When indexing so called “rich documents” we should sometimes think about, where we want those documents to be processes – should we send them to Apache Solr (or other search engine, like ElasticSearch) and forget about them or whether we should use Apache Tika before sending the document and send the extracted content along with other information for indexation.