Add an example search handler

[Treggats]

I was thinking, would it be an idea to add an example search handler?
That way you have an example for the solr implementation and the clientside implementation. As a bonus you can minimize the getSearchURL function :)

[fergiemcdowall]

Sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I follow. What is a Handler in this context?

[Treggats]

Server side solr, in solrconfig.xml

<requestHandler name="/search" class="solr.SearchHandler">
(...)
</requestHandler>

in there you can config your defaults for facets, spellcheck, highlighter etc..
See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRequestHandler

[fergiemcdowall]

Oh- I see :) Good point!

I really want Solrstrap to work with an "out of the box" Solr installation, so that it works as quickly as possible for the most possible people- even if it is kind of messy. So anything that involves a change to solrconfig.xml is (at the moment) out.

[Treggats]

Then you need to make every option available in the getSearchURL function, which in most cases is not what you want.

[fergiemcdowall]

The way it is set up now definitely sacrifices code-prettiness in getSearchURL for ease of setup. Although getSearchURL is moderately hairy its not totally spaghetti (yet). Setting a SearchHandler would make getSearchURL simpler and the solconfig.xml more complex.

[Treggats]

You make it sound like having a good configured searchHandler is a bad thing?
Solr is made that way so that you configure it that way, besides that there are some security issues tied to having every option in the url of the searchHandler.
Not sure what those are at the moment though