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dylan kane
2,772 PointsSolr lucene help!
I am trying to have a search bar in my web app come up with results from my mongo db (btw I'm using meteor) so I decided to use solr. everyone says its great for what I'm trying to do, so I installed it and got it working on my computer. Sadly, that's as far as the tutorial takes you really on their site, and every other tutorial on the internet is apparently out of date. perhaps I'm so inexperience with this that I'm just missing something easy in terms of using it for my own web app, or maybe this isnt the right app for me to use at all, I'm not sure. Any information on the subject would be great, like if solr is the right choice for me, how to plug it into my own web app, or even a place I can go to learn more about this field. The web app domain is a very dauntingly large complexity of so many things and I just get overwhelmed with the amount of it so really anything would be great to hear, thanks!
1 Answer
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherDylan;
I have not used Apache Solr, but it seems like it offers the functionality for which you are seeking to add to your project. Perhaps a bit more information about the project would be helpful in terms of how to associate all of the data you are attempting to get and what you want to achieve.
Ken
dylan kane
2,772 Pointsdylan kane
2,772 PointsHi ken, here is some more info about the project
In my mongo database I have each document set up like this example:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("568178a1e1cf4f20239d576d"), "title" : "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3", "console" : [ { "xbox1" : true }, { "ps4" : true }, { "pc" : true } ], "category" : "shooter", "img" : "../gameCovers/codbo3.jpg" }
I have a bunch of games in this exact format, only with different values in the json object. Now switching over to the search bar I want to work, the user will type in a value like the title, so basically any game name. If the database has a title like the one which the user typed in, it will bring up all the values I have entered in the object.
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherKen Alger
Treehouse TeacherSee my answer to your other post on this same topic.