Last thursday. Glad I’ve managed to get this completed aside every day work now. Took the Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators 1Z0-050 upgrade path (Oracle Database 11g – Certification Path). Weird, the exam comprises so many topics that are really expensive in terms of (additional) enterprise edition options to be licenced for operation set up (Oracle Technology Global Price List).
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The Solr documentation for XPathEntityProcessor introduces a spezialization subtype of EntityProcessor that is primarily depicted to process data (to be) imported from xml/http-datasources (for example, Usage with XML/HTTP Datasource). However, using XPathEntityProcessor on a FieldReaderDataSource instead on the original URLDataSource or !HttpDataSource (search for FieldReaderDataSource in Uploading Structured Data Store Data with the Data Import Handler) enables reading xml instances contained in columns delivered from database requests through SqlEntityProcessor.
Bewildered out of words and meanings…? Don’t worry, the following will give you a living example of how to craft the xml from an Oracle database easily and what to do on the Solr side to map the information datums into indexing fields. To me, this is really a nice example of how to employ xml in a true sense of a defined (well-forming, encoding) data exchange layer, hiding most if not all of the implementation details of xml processing on the database and on the search-engine. Note however, that this great time-to-market, through xml processing technically, always comes at a certain extra cost such that the xml-instances shall not become to large for this solution pattern. I will also use xml attributes for small size values instead of tags in the xml generation as one step of optimization.
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