Apache Solr for Indexing Data

Chapter 3. Indexing Data

In the previous chapter, we saw the various analyzers, tokenizers, and filters provided by Solr that help us select the most important data from a given document. In this chapter, we'll see how Solr provides us a way to index this data so that we can run queries on top of it. We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Defining field types in Solr
• Creating a custom musicCatalogue example
• Facet searching

The Solr indexing process can mainly be broken down into two major parts:

• Converting the document from its native format to XML or JSON, both of which are supported by Solr
• Adding documents into Solr datastore using API or HTTP POST

To better understand the preceding two parts, we'll create an example of a music catalogue ...