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This Bundle provides a simple API to index and query a Solr Index.

Configuration

The bundle requires a working doctrine-orm or doctrine-mongodb configuration. There are no differences in the use.

Install the Bundle

Bundle

1. Register bundle in AppKernel.php

   # app/AppKernel.php
   
   $bundles = array(
       // ...
       new FS\SolrBundle\FSSolrBundle(),
       // ...
   );
   

2. Add Bundle to autoload

   A. Via composer, add in your composer.json

   "require": {
       // ...
       "floriansemm/solr-bundle": "dev-master"
   }
   

   B. or manually, in app/autoload.php

   i. In symfony 2.1.4 (supposing you clone the bundle in vendor/floriansemm/solr-bundle/FS/, making available vendor/floriansemm/solr-bundle/FS/SolrBundle/FSSolrBundle.php)

   $loader->add('FS\\SolrBundle', array(__DIR__.'/../vendor/floriansemm/solr-bundle'));
   

   ii. in older version it could be

   $loader->registerNamespaces(array(
       // ...
       'FS' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles',
       // ...
   ));
   

Multiple Indexes

You have to setup the connection options

# app/config/config.yml
fs_solr:
  endpoints:
    default:
      host: host
      port: 8983
      path: /solr/
      core: corename
      timeout: 5
  clients:
    default:
      endpoints: [default]

With this config you have access to the service solr.client.default. If you have more client you can access them with the call solr.client.clientname

Usage

Annotations

To put an entity to the index, you must add some annotations to your entity:

// your Entity

// ....
use FS\SolrBundle\Doctrine\Annotation as Solr;

/**
 * @Solr\Document(repository="Full\Qualified\Class\Name")
 * @ORM\Table()
 */
class Post
{
	/**
	 * @Solr\Id
	 *
	 * @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
	 * @ORM\Id
	 * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
	 */

	private $id;
	/**
	 *
	 * @Solr\Field(type="string")
	 *
	 * @ORM\Column(name="title", type="string", length=255)
	 */
	private $title = '';

	/**
	*
	* @Solr\Field(type="string")
	*
	* @ORM\Column(name="text", type="text")
	*/
	private $text = '';

	/**
	* @Solr\Field(type="date")
	*
	* @ORM\Column(name="created_at", type="datetime")
	*/
	private $created_at = null;
}

Supported field types

Currently is a basic set of types implemented.

• string
• text
• date
• integer
• float
• double
• long
• boolean

It is possible to use custum field types (schema.xml).

Filter annotation

In some cases a entity should not be index. For this you have the SynchronizationFilter Annotation.

/**
* @Solr\Document
* @Solr\SynchronizationFilter(callback="shouldBeIndex")
*/
class SomeEntity
{
	/**
	* @return boolean
	*/
	public function shouldBeIndex()
	{
		// put your logic here
	}
}

The callback property specifies an callable function, which decides whether the should index or not.

Solr field configuration

Solr comes with a set of predefined field-name/field-types mapping:

• title (solr-type: general_text)
• text (solr-type: general_text)
• category (solr-type: general_text)
• content_type (solr-type: string)

For details have a look into your schema.xml.

So if you have an entity with a property "category", then you don't need a type-declaration in the annotation:

/**
* @Solr\Field
* @ORM\Column(name="category", type="text")
*/
private $category = '';

The field has in this case automaticaly the type "general_text".

If you persist this entity, it will put automaticlly to the index. Update and delete happens automatically too.

Query a field of a document

To query the index you have to call some services.

$query = $this->get('solr')->createQuery('AcmeDemoBundle:Post');
$query->addSearchTerm('title', 'my title');

$result = $result = $query->getResult();

The $result array contains all found entities. The solr-service does all mappings from SolrDocument to your entity for you.

Query all fields of a document

The pervious examples have queried only the field 'title'. You can also query all fields with a string.

$query = $this->get('solr')->createQuery('AcmeDemoBundle:Post');
$query->queryAllFields('my title');

$result = $query->getResult();

Define Result-Mapping

To narrow the mapping, you can use the addField() method.

$query = $this->get('solr')->createQuery('AcmeDemoBundle:Post');
$query->addSearchTerm('title', 'my title');
$query->addField('id');
$query->addField('text');

$result = $query->getResult();

In this case only the fields id and text will be mapped (addField()), so title and created_at will be empty. If nothing was found $result is empty.

Configure HydrationModes

HydrationMode tells the Bundle how to create an entity from a document.

1. FS\SolrBundle\Doctrine\Hydration\HydrationModes::HYDRATE_INDEX - use only the data from solr
2. FS\SolrBundle\Doctrine\Hydration\HydrationModes::HYDRATE_DOCTRINE - merge the data from solr with the entire doctrine-entity

With a custom query:

$query = $this->get('solr')->createQuery('AcmeDemoBundle:Post');
$query->setHydrationMode($mode)

With a custom document-repository you have to set the property $hydrationMode itself:

public function find($id)
{
    $this->hydrationMode = HydrationModes::HYDRATE_INDEX;

    return parent::find($id);
}

Index manually an entity

To index your entities manually, you can do it the following way:

$this->get('solr')->addDocument($entity);
$this->get('solr')->updateDocument($entity);
$this->get('solr')->deleteDocument($entity);

deleteDocument() requires that the entity-id is set.

Use document repositories

If you specify your own repository you must extend the FS\SolrBundle\Repository\Repository class. The useage is the same like Doctrine-Repositories:

$myRepository = $this->get('solr')->getRepository('AcmeDemoBundle:Post');
$result = $myRepository->mySpecialFindMethod();

If you haven't declared a concrete repository in your entity and you calling $this->get('solr')->getRepository('AcmeDemoBundle:Post'), you will get an instance of FS\SolrBundle\Repository\Repository.

Commands

There are comming two commands with this bundle:

• solr:index:clear - delete all documents in the index
• solr:synchronize - synchronize the db with the index