It should be easy to invoke a side solr request that doesn't involve widgets, and that

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evolvingweb commented on July 25, 2024

Make side solr requests (no widgets, keep q & fq) easy

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jpmckinney commented on July 25, 2024

Noting that there is some code that's been shared on the mailing list (and that is in the AutocompleteTermWidget) for accomplishing this.

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Daniel15 commented on July 25, 2024

I had to do something similar and used code that looked a bit like this:

// Clone the current parameter store
var newStore = new AjaxSolr.ParameterStore();
newStore.parseString(this.manager.store.string());
// ... do stuff with newStore ...

this.manager.executeRequest('handler_name', newStore.string(), function (data) {
    // Process the data in here
});

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jpmckinney commented on July 25, 2024

Thanks @Daniel15 ! I've created a tutorial based on this: https://github.com/evolvingweb/ajax-solr/wiki/Tutorial:-Send-a-Solr-request-without-updating-widgets

Since every developer will want to make different changes to the parameter store, I think it's easier for a developer to use the 3-4 lines of code from the tutorial, than to learn how to use a new ajax-solr API, which would have to look like:

this.manager.sideRequest('select', function (store) {
  // receives a fresh parameter store, makes modifications to it.
}, function (data) {
  // receives Solr response data, does stuff with it.
});

That's worse than what people can do now:

var store = new AjaxSolr.ParameterStore();
// Make modifications to the parameter store.
this.manager.executeRequest('select', store.string(), function (data) {
  // receives Solr response data, does stuff with it.
});