Boy, do I remember this "I did a cool thing and nobody looked" feeling for Solr RefGuide.
But if it could be useful for this project, my Guide import code is still public. I actually read the content straight from ASCIIDoc internal representation as opposed to Tika: https://github.com/arafalov/solr-refguide-indexing/blob/master/src/com/solrstart/refguide/Indexer.java Regards, Alex. P.s. JesterJ does look interesting, though not related to what I am doing right now (so not digging deeper). On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 21:12, Gus Heck <gus.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > *TLDR;* I put up a github repo (check it out): > https://github.com/nsoft/index-solr-ref-guide > > *The Details:* > Last Year I announced JesterJ's 1.0 release and gave a lightning talk about > it at Haystack. There were lots of folks who seemed to think it sounded > cool, but I got zero useful feedback, and no evidence that even one person > downloaded and ran it. This was very discouraging, and I wound up ignoring > it for a while. > > I suspect the problem is that trying it out on a project at work is too > high stakes, and the majority of folks attending conferences already have > some sort of working solution. Also coming up with data to index that isn't > entirely pointless can be a chore. > > Tonight I was thinking a thought I've had many times before: It's kind of > silly that the Solr ref guide isn't indexed and searchable in a solr > instance. Currently the ref guide uses a JS based library which has the > downside of not being able to serve results for past versions. > > Then it hit me. This is a great, low stakes way for people to play with > JesterJ and try it out without having to go search for data. So tonight I > took 30 min and wrote an ingest to consume Solr Ref Guide (it was that > easy! almost faster than building the html site) and and now I have a repo > that anyone can check out, and fiddle with, that doesn't include the whole > JesterJ project. > > It's intentionally just a starting point. Please give feedback or even > PR's. I made a couple of issues noting the most obvious enhancements. > > I am aware that there have been attempts to do this in the past, and it's > non-trivial to do it well, but I hope this can be a fun community effort > with no time pressure, and opportunities to learn lots of different things. > > Enjoy, > Gus > > -- > http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) > https://a.co/d/b2sZLD9 (my fantasy fiction book) >
