LWS: Using SolrXML To Crassly Manipulate Solr

As I mentioned in the previous post: SolrXML isn’t just for sending documents into Solr. It is also for sending messages to Solr about things you would like it to do: add one or more documents, update one or more documents or delete one or more documents (there are a few other messages you can send, but why quibble over details).

Let’s look at these in turn.

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LWS: How to Index SolrXML

[I will be using Linux 13.03 with LucidWorks Search 2.6.2.]
Following the continuing saga of doing the easy stuff we will look at another of the standard data sources available in LucidWorks Search: SolrXML.

At its most basic SolrXML is made up of a root element that tells Solr what to do with the incoming document(s). For this deeply moving episode the XML document will look something like: