Our search needed to preform typical longitude and latitude geo-radius spatial results (I’ve mashed up all of those keywords because I really am not sure what someone will search for to find this post, apologies for the grammar!). Since I took on SOLR as our search engine I needed to find an elegant solution.
After some search, I found the holy grail: Local SOLR. Not finding much instruction on the official site, I found a great blog post with an explanation and example. Its fairly easy to install and integrate into drupal.
- Extract the files and copy them into your solr directory (if your main solr instance is under “example”, make it “example2″.
- Stop your sorl instance (I’m assuming your on a dev box!) and start the local solr.
- Test to see if its working using the localhost cinema example.
- If it works find the java files and copy them into your solr project.
- Update your solr.config and schema files. Sorry I don’t have the exact lines (not at work) but its pretty obvious what lines are local solr related. <edit: read below>
- Update the drupal code to send the extra fields (I’ll try to find the exact ones later) .
- You’re done!
The only gotcha I found, resulting in a few lost hairs and an increase in blood pressure, was a funny error concerning the comments field. The error I received was a integer conversion error, which I eventually found out was the number of comments being blank. Just make sure you adjust your apachesolr.module file to set comments to zero when it is null.
I’ll try to get the drupal developers to support local solr so we can have some official code for you to use.
That’s it for now!
<update>
As suggested I’ll post this on the Drupal website, but for anyone interested the updates to the solr.config and scheme files:
::schema.xml
<field name=”lat” type=”sdouble” indexed=”true” stored=”true”/>
<field name=”lng” type=”sdouble” indexed=”true” stored=”true”/>
<field name=”geo_distance” type=”sdouble”/>
<dynamicField name=”_local*” type=”sdouble” indexed=”true” stored=”true”/>
::solr.config
line 177
<searchComponent name=”localsolr” class=”com.pjaol.search.solr.
<str name=”latField”>lat</str>
<str name=”lngField”>lng</str>
</searchComponent>
<!– local lucene request handler –>
<requestHandler name=”geo” class=”org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler”>
<lst name=”defaults”>
<str name=”echoParams”>explicit</str>
</lst>
<arr name=”components”>
<str>localsolr</str>
<str>facet</str>
<str>mlt</str>
<str>highlight</str>
<str>debug</str>
</arr>
</requestHandler>
<str name=”latField”>lat</str>
<str name=”lngField”>lng</str>
</searchComponent>
<!– local lucene request handler –>
<requestHandler name=”geo” class=”org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler”>
<lst name=”defaults”>
<str name=”echoParams”>explicit</str>
</lst>
<arr name=”components”>
<str>localsolr</str>
<str>facet</str>
<str>mlt</str>
<str>highlight</str>
<str>debug</str>
</arr>
</requestHandler>
