<img src="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/assets/identity/Solr_Logo_on_white.png"width="100"/> sails-solr

Provides easy access to solr from Sails.js & Waterline.

This module is a Waterline/Sails adapter, an early implementation of a rapidly-developing, tool-agnostic data standard. Its goal is to provide a set of declarative interfaces, conventions, and best-practices for integrating with all sorts of data sources.

The main goal is a simple usage and integration of a full managaged Solr.

Installation

To install this adapter, run:

$ npm install sails-solr

Getting started with sails-solr

To install/start solr if you not have one running

make kickstart

Note: not recommended for production systems! Solr installation Tomcat for more

Configuring Connections

Add the solr configuration to the config/connections.js file. The basic options are as follows:

module.exports.connections = {
  solrConnectionOne: {
    module : 'sails-solr',
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 8983,
    core: 'schemaless',
    schema: true,
    migrate: 'drop'
  }
};

Note: you can define multiple solr connections/cores. By default sails-solr will run multiple models inside one core manageCores. Connection Options

Configuring Models

And then change default model configuration to the config/models.js:

module.exports.models = {
  connection: 'solrConnectionOne',
  attributes: {
    name:'string'
    ...
  }
};

Note: you can add more model based configuartion Model Options / Connection Options

Usage

create a user:

  User.create({name:'foo'},console)

find a user:

  User.find({name:'foo'},console);
  User.findOne({name:'foo'},console);
  User.findByName('foo',console);

Note: See Waterline Documentation Query Language and Query Methods

Special Adapter Interfaces

Autocompleter

search suggestion and spellchecked phrase. Known as "Did You Mean: foo?"

  // as sails request  see hooks and blueprint
  // http://localhost:1337/user/suggest/foa

  // in node
  User.suggest('foa', console);

  //response 
  {
  "responseHeader": {
    "status": 0,
    "QTime": 1
  },
  "spellcheck": {
    "suggestions": [
      "foa",
      {
        "numFound": 1,
        "startOffset": 0,
        "endOffset": 9,
        "origFreq": 0,
        "suggestion": [
          {
            "word": "foo",
            "freq": 1
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "correctlySpelled": false,
    "collations": [
      "collation",
      "foo"
    ]
  },
  "suggest": {
    "suggest": {
      "foa": {
        "numFound": 2,
        "suggestions": [
          {
            "term": "foo",
            "weight": 0,
            "payload": ""
          },{
            "term": "foo bar",
            "weight": 0,
            "payload": ""
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Layerd Navigation

Well known as filter. facet for strings and min,max,avg for ìnteger to build Options and Range Slider Elemets. Query Methods

  // as sails request  see hooks and blueprint
  // http://localhost:1337/user/catalog/?name="*"&limit=3&sort=age asc&skip=0

  // in node
  User.catalog({name:'foo'},console);

  //response 
  {
  "responseHeader":{
    "status":0,
    "QTime":1,
    "params":{
      "q":"*:*",
      "indent":"true",
      "stats":"true",
      "sort":"percent asc",
      "rows":"100",
      "wt":"json",
      "stats.field":["age",
        "percent"]}},
  "response":{"numFound":13,"start":0,"docs":[
      {
        "name":"foo",
        "age":10,
        "color":"blue",
        "createdAt":"2015-12-30T23:32:24.755Z",
        "updatedAt":"2015-12-30T23:32:24.755Z",
        "id":"612bb75f-be0f-496b-ba51-8e79ee786c50"},
      {
        "name":"bar",
        "age":20,
        "color":"yellow",
        "createdAt":"2015-12-30T23:15:09.859Z",
        "updatedAt":"2015-12-30T23:15:09.859Z",
        "id":"517a4917-b3b8-4ea0-a3fd-acd41497b6e0"},
      {
        "name":"john",
        "age":30,
        "color":"black",
        "createdAt":"2015-12-30T23:15:10.859Z",
        "updatedAt":"2015-12-30T23:15:10.859Z",
        "id":"515a4917-b3b8-4ea0-a3fd-acd4149432fd"},
  },
  "facet_counts": {
    "facet_queries": {},
    "facet_fields": {
        "name": [
        {
          "blue":1},
        {
          "yellow":1},
        {
          "black":1},
      ]
    },
    "facet_dates": {},
    "facet_ranges": {},
    "facet_intervals": {},
    "facet_heatmaps": {}
  },
  "stats":{
    "stats_fields":{
      "age":{
        "min":10.0,
        "max":30.0,
        "count":3,
        "missing":0,
        "sum":60.0,
        "sumOfSquares":100,
        "mean":20,
        "stddev":10}}}}

Supported Waterline Interfaces

Type	Methods	Build
Semantic	create, createEach, find, count, update, destroy
Migratable	define, describe, drop, alter, addAttributes, remove, attributes, addIndex, removeIndex
Queryable	where, limit, sort, skip, select

Note: See Waterline Documentation

Special Adapter Interfaces

Type	Methods	Build
Suggest	suggest. Return on Object with suggestions and spellecked the requestet term or phrase
Catalog	catalog. Return an Object with matching results and Layered Navigation as facet and stats

Advanced Configuration

Connection Options

Model Options

{
  attributes: {
    first_name: {
      type:'string'
      // Overwrite per Field
      schemaDefaultFieldAttributes: {
        indexed: true,
        type: 'text_de'
      }
    }
  }
  // Overwrite per Model
  schemaDefaultFieldAttributes: {
    indexed: false
  }
}

Field Type Map

The following table represents mappings between Sails/Waterline model data types and Solr field types:

Note: You can even define your custom mapping as fieldTypeMap: inside connection settings and as model option. If you want a field type explicit mapping use fieldType as additional fieldTypeMapattribute

Solr default field attributes

The following table represents Solr field attributes:

Note: You can even define your custom field attribute default as schemaDefaultFieldAttributes: inside connection settings and as model option. If you want a field attribute explicit you can add this attribute as an additional option inside the Model attribute settings

Running the tests

$ npm test

TODO:

• more test
• documentation
• cleanup and refactoring
• build an e-commerce like demo application with autocomplete and layerd navigation

More Resources

• Solr
• Waterline
• Sails

License

MIT