Page Turner search-in-a-page solr configuration

Pretty straightforward solr configuration used for ptsearch.

See branch solr-tomcat for the pre-solr8 configuration.

Always use wt=xml

The cilent code expects XML responses; thus in the solr8 branch the search handler needs to have that set as a default, since more modern solrs default to json.

Highlighting

The pt code expect hl.tag.pre and hl.tag.post to use {lt:} and {gt:} instead of < and >, as see in the solrconfig.xml file.

Running the solr container

Build and run

docker compose up --build -d

Ping the core

docker compose run test

Confirm schema loaded with expected fields

curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/ptsearch/admin/luke?wt=json&show=schema' | jq '.schema.fields | keys'

Index a document and verify highlighting still works

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:8983/solr/ptsearch/update?commit=true' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '[{"id":"test.001","vol_id":"test","seq":1,"ocr":"hello world","title":["Test Title"],"rights":0}]'

Check if the highlights are specific in ocr field

curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/ptsearch/select?q=hello&hl=true&hl.fl=ocr'

The output should be something like this, where the ocr field contains the highlighted text with the expected tags:

<lst name="highlighting">
  <lst name="test.001">
    <arr name="ocr">
      <str>{lt:}strong class="solr_highlight_1"{gt:}hello{lt:}/strong{gt:}; world</str>
    </arr>
  </lst>
</lst>