Overview

Here’s the basic gist:

import solr

# create a connection to a solr server
s = solr.Solr('http://example.org:8083/solr')

# add a document to the index
doc = dict(
    id=1,
    title='Lucene in Action',
    author=['Erik Hatcher', 'Otis Gospodnetić'],
    )
s.add(doc, commit=True)

# do a search
response = s.select('title:lucene')
for hit in response.results:
    print hit['title']

Optional parameters for query, faceting, highlighting and more like this can be passed as parameters to the select method. Convert dots in parameter names to underscores. For example, the facet.field parameter would be specified as facet_field.

For example, if you want to get faceting information in your search result:

response = s.select(
    'title:lucene', facet='true', facet_field='subject')

and if the parameter takes multiple values you just pass them in as a list:

response = s.select(
    'title:lucene', facet='true',
    facet_field=['subject', 'publisher'])

Community

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