Hi folks,

There is a new module out there called "Sarnia" which allows a Drupal site to connect to any external Solr instance. With the Sarnia module users can use Views 3 to create search pages that provide full access to external Solr instances. It would be great if the autocomplete module would support Sarnia as an additional option. Thoughts?

Regards,
Mitch

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janusman’s picture

janusman commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Apachesolr_autocomplete is tied to Apachesolr.module. Hence the apachesolr_ prefix.

Perhaps in a different project called sarnia_autocomplete? =)

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christowm commented

Janusman,

Funny you should say that. I already started on that. I am using your code as the basis to build a Sarnia version. I would have preferred not to split this out as a separate project. But for the time being I will go ahead and build it that way. Maybe once I have it running and see how different the code base is, there may be a possibility to merge the changes back into this project. In any event. I am going ahead with a fork called sarnia_autocomplete. :)

Regards,
Mitch

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janusman commented

Sounds great! =)

Just am a bit concerned about the "developer experience" (confusing them). Probably might not be confusing... others might have the same idea you did... sort of "For all things Solr + Autocomplete, use Apache Solr Autocomplete" (hey, that even sounds like a jingle!) =)

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lampson commented

Just use the Search API autocomplete module. It works fine with Sarnia.