[SOLR-1354] Pass HTTP request parameters through to XSL scripts

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: search

Environment

Any JDK from 1.5 onward. Any OS. Uses standard XSLTC 'compiled'-only version of Apache Xalan distributed with the JRE.

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lance Norskog
• Created: 10/Aug/09 00:12
• Updated: 13/Apr/13 21:31
• Resolved: 13/Apr/13 21:31

Description

It is not possible to create a standard web application with the Solr distribution without coding in XSL, Ruby, HTML/Javascript etc.

This patch is an experiment that allows you to configure an RSS 2.0 feed through HTTP parameters. To do this, it supplies:
1) a change to XSLTWriter.java to pass an HTTP parameter named 'tr.name' through as an XSL parameter called 'name'. The XSL script must then declare 'name' as a global parameter.
2) example/solr/conf/xslt/rss2.xsl - a mostly complete implementation of RSS 2.0.
3) a sample <requestHandler> in example/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml which configures solr/rss2 as an RSS feed for the sample electronics store in example/solr. This <requestHandler> supplies all parameters for the RSS feed.