Example Searches

This section simply provides some examples of things you can do with Solr on a Content Store web site. The examples are based on the default schema.xml supplied with the Content Store. The examples are shown as HTTP requests that can be submitted directly to your Solr server. The basic format of such a request is:

http://your-host/solr/select?query-parameters

where:

your-host

is the host name or IP address of the host on which your Solr server is running

query-parameters

is an ampersand-separated list of query parameters. There are many query parameters you can use to control Solr. The parameters used in these examples include:

q=query

The query itself, for example:

q=london

Return all documents containing "london" in any indexed field

q=city:london

Return all documents containing "london" in the city field

q=*:*

Return all documents

contenttype

Filters the results by content type, for example:

contenttype=story

Return only results from story content items

contenttype=com.escenic.person

Return only results from Person records

wt=writer-type

Determines the format of the returned data. For example:

wt=xml

Return XML data

wt=json

Return JSON data

rows=integer

Determines the number of rows to return.

facet=boolean

Specifying facet=true switches faceting on for this query.

facet.field=field-name

Specifies a field on which faceting is to be performed. This parameter can be specified several times in the same query.