Solr

InterMine uses Solr for its keyword search. Now the first search is instant, you can inspect the search index directly (via http://localhost:8983/solr/) and there's a facet web service (via /service/facet-list and /service/facets?q=gene). Certain bugs, e.g. searching for the gene "OR", are also now fixed.

See below for how to install and configure Solr search for your InterMine

Configure the InterMine instance

Configure the search end point

# keyword_search.properties

# replace "flymine" with your mine's name

index.solrurl = http://localhost:8983/solr/flymine-search

index.batch.size = 1000

Configure the autocomplete

# objectstoresummary.config.properties

# replace "flymine" with your mine's name

autocomplete.solrurl = http://localhost:8983/solr/flymine-autocomplete

Configure XML library

# your mine's gradle.properties

systemProp.javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory = com.sun.xml.internal.stream.XMLOutputFactoryImpl

Otherwise the com.ctc.wstx.stax.WstxOutputFactory class is loaded. See #1889 for details.

Install SOLR

Download Solr binary package and extract it to any place you like. Inside /solr-7.2.1 directory, start the server with this command:

# Starts the server instance on port 8983

solr-7.2.1 $ ./bin/solr start

Initialising Search Indexes

Note Be sure your $GRADLE_OPTS parameter is set correctly, so you have enough memory and disk space for the search index.

To create a Intermine collection for search process, run this command inside the solr directory.

# Initialises the search index

# replace "flymine-search" with whatever you configured above in the properties file

solr-7.2.1 $ ./bin/solr create -c flymine-search

To create a Intermine collection for autocomplete process, run this command inside the solr directory.

# Initaliases the autocomplete index

# replace "flymine-autocomplete" with whatever you configured above in the properties file

solr-7.2.1 $ ./bin/solr create -c flymine-autocomplete

Create Search Indexes

To populate your search index, you'll need to add these postprocesses to your mine's project XML file: create-search-index and create-autocomplete-index.

See Project XML and Post processing for details.

Configuring Search Results

See Keyword Search for details on how to configure the search results.

Production search

You can easily copy your index from your dev to your production server. You can copy the entire /solr directory then do ./bin/solr start. You can also dump / restore the index. Be sure to copy the managed-schema file over as well the first time. Don't forget to restart Solr after making changes.