Apache Solr Beginner's Guide -- Table of Contents -- Apache Solr Beginner's Guide -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action - heading -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Ready with the Essentials -- Understanding Solr -- Learning the powerful aspects of Solr -- Working with Java installation -- Downloading and installing Java -- Configuring CLASSPATH and PATH variables for Java -- Installing and testing Solr -- Time for action - starting Solr for the first time -- What just happened? -- Taking a glance at the Solr interface -- Time for action - posting some example data -- What just happened? -- Time for action - testing Solr with cURL -- What just happened? -- Who uses Solr? -- Resources on Solr -- How will we use Solr? -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- 2. Indexing with Local PDF Files -- Understanding and using an index -- Posting example documents to the first Solr core -- Analyzing the elements we need in Solr core -- Time for action - configuring Solr Home and Solr core discovery -- What just happened? -- Knowing the legacy solr.xml format -- Time for action - writing a simple solrconfig.xml file -- What just happened? -- Time for action - writing a simple schema.xml file -- What just happened? -- Time for action - starting the new core -- What just happened? -- Time for action - defining an example document -- What just happened? -- Time for action - indexing an example document with cURL -- What just happened?.

Executing the first search on the new core -- Adding documents to the index from the web UI -- Time for action - updating an existing document -- What just happened? -- Time for action - cleaning an index -- What just happened? -- Creating an index prototype from PDF files -- Time for action - defining the schema.xml file with only dynamic fields and tokenization -- What just happened? -- Time for action - writing a simple solrconfig.xml file with an update handler -- What just happened? -- Testing the PDF file core with dummy data and an example query -- Defining a new tokenized field for fulltext -- Time for action - using Tika and cURL to extract text from PDFs -- What just happened? -- Using cURL to index some PDF data -- Time for action - finding copies of the same files with deduplication -- What just happened? -- Time for action - looking inside an index with SimpleTextCodec -- What just happened? -- Understanding the structure of an inverted index -- Understanding how optimization affects the segments of an index -- Writing the full configuration for our PDF index example -- Writing the solrconfig.xml file -- Writing the schema.xml file -- Summarizing some easy recipes for the maintenance of an index -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- 3. Indexing Example Data from DBpedia - Paintings -- Harvesting paintings' data from DBpedia -- Analyzing the entities that we want to index -- Analyzing the first entity - Painting -- Writing Solr core configurations for the first tests -- Time for action - defining the basic solrconfig.xml file -- What just happened? -- Looking at the differences between commits and soft commits -- Time for action - defining the simple schema.xml file -- What just happened? -- Introducing analyzers, tokenizers, and filters -- Thinking fields for atomic updates -- Indexing a test entity with JSON -- Understanding the update chain.

Using the atomic update -- Understanding how optimistic concurrency works -- Time for action - listing all the fields with the CSV output -- What just happened? -- Defining a new Solr core for our Painting entity -- Time for action - refactoring the schema.xml file for the paintings core by introducing tokenization and stop words -- What just happened? -- Using common field attributes for different use cases -- Testing the paintings schema -- Collecting the paintings data from DBpedia -- Downloading data using the DBpedia SPARQL endpoint -- Creating Solr documents for example data -- Indexing example data -- Testing our paintings core -- Time for action - looking at a field using the Schema browser in the web interface -- What just happened? -- Time for action - searching the new data in the paintings core -- What just happened? -- Using the Solr web interface for simple maintenance tasks -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- 4. Searching the Example Data -- Looking at Solr's standard query parameters -- Adding a timestamp field for tracking the last modified time -- Sending Solr's query parameters over HTTP -- Testing HTTP parameters on browsers -- Choosing a format for the output -- Time for action - searching for all documents with pagination -- What just happened? -- Time for action - projecting fields with fl -- What just happened? -- Introducing pseudo-fields and DocTransformers -- Adding a constant field using transformers -- Time for action - adding a custom DocTransformer to hide empty fields in the results -- What just happened? -- Looking at core parameters for queries -- Using the Lucene query parser with defType -- Time for action - searching for terms with a Boolean query -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using q.op for the default Boolean operator -- What just happened? -- Time for action - selecting documents with the filter query.

What just happened? -- Time for action - searching for incomplete terms with the wildcard query -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using the Boost options -- What just happened? -- Understanding the basic Lucene score -- Time for action - searching for similar terms with fuzzy search -- What just happened? -- Time for action - writing a simple phrase query example -- What just happened? -- Time for action - playing with range queries -- What just happened? -- Time for action - sorting documents with the sort parameter -- What just happened? -- Playing with the request -- Time for action - adding a default parameter to a handler -- What just happened? -- Playing with the response -- Summarizing the parameters that affect result presentation -- Analyzing response format -- Time for action - enabling XSLT Response Writer with Luke -- What just happened? -- Listing all fields names with CSV output -- Listing all field details for a core -- Exploring Solr for Open Data publishing -- Publishing results in CSV format -- Publishing results with an RSS feed -- Good resources on Solr Query Syntax -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- 5. Extending Search -- Looking at different search parsers - Lucene, Dismax, and Edismax -- Starting from the previous core definition -- Time for action - inspecting results using the stats and debug components -- What just happened? -- Looking at Lucene and Solr query parsers -- Time for action - debugging a query with the Lucene parser -- What just happened? -- Time for action - debugging a query with the Dismax parser -- What just happened? -- Using an Edismax default handler -- Time for action - executing a nested Edismax query -- What just happened? -- A short list of search components -- Adding the blooming filter and real-time Get -- Time for action - executing a simple pseudo-join query -- What just happened?.

Highlighting results to improve the search experience -- Time for action - generating highlighted snippets over a term -- What just happened? -- Some idea about geolocalization with Solr -- Time for action - creating a repository of cities -- What just happened? -- Playing more with spatial search -- Looking at the new Solr 4 spatial features - from points to polygons -- Time for action - expanding the original data with coordinates during the update process -- What just happened? -- Performing editorial correction on boosting -- Introducing the spellcheck component -- Time for action - playing with spellchecks -- What just happened? -- Using a file to spellcheck against a list of controlled words -- Collecting some hints for spellchecking analysis -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- 6. Using Faceted Search - from Searching to Finding -- Exploring documents suggestion and matching with faceted search -- Time for action - prototyping an auto-suggester with facets -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating wordclouds on facets to view and analyze data -- What just happened? -- Thinking about faceted search and findability -- Faceting for narrowing searches and exploring data -- Time for action - defining facets over enumerated fields -- What just happened? -- Performing data normalization for the keyword field during the update phase -- Reading more about Solr faceting parameters -- Time for action - finding interesting topics using faceting on tokenized fields with a filter query -- What just happened? -- Using filter queries for caching filters -- Time for action - finding interesting subjects using a facet query -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using range queries and facet range queries -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using a hierarchical facet (pivot) -- What just happened? -- Introducing group and field collapsing.

Time for action - grouping results.