Solr

Since Camel 2.9

Only producer is supported

The Solr component allows you to interface with an Apache Lucene Solr server (based on SolrJ 3.5.0).

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-solr</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

URI format

solr://host[:port]/solr?[options]
solrs://host[:port]/solr?[options]
solrCloud://host[:port]/solr?[options]

Solr Options

The Solr component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

basicPropertyBinding (advanced)

Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

boolean

The Solr endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

solr:url

with the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters):

Name Description Default Type

url

Required Hostname and port for the solr server

String

Query Parameters (17 parameters):

Name Description Default Type

allowCompression (producer)

Server side must support gzip or deflate for this to have any effect

Boolean

connectionTimeout (producer)

connectionTimeout on the underlying HttpConnectionManager

Integer

defaultMaxConnectionsPerHost (producer)

maxConnectionsPerHost on the underlying HttpConnectionManager

Integer

followRedirects (producer)

indicates whether redirects are used to get to the Solr server

Boolean

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

maxRetries (producer)

Maximum number of retries to attempt in the event of transient errors

Integer

maxTotalConnections (producer)

maxTotalConnection on the underlying HttpConnectionManager

Integer

requestHandler (producer)

Set the request handler to be used

String

soTimeout (producer)

Read timeout on the underlying HttpConnectionManager. This is desirable for queries, but probably not for indexing

Integer

streamingQueueSize (producer)

Set the queue size for the StreamingUpdateSolrServer

10

int

streamingThreadCount (producer)

Set the number of threads for the StreamingUpdateSolrServer

2

int

basicPropertyBinding (advanced)

Whether the endpoint should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

boolean

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

password (security)

Sets password for basic auth plugin enabled servers

String

username (security)

Sets username for basic auth plugin enabled servers

String

collection (solrCloud)

Set the collection name which the solrCloud server could use

String

zkHost (solrCloud)

Set the ZooKeeper host information which the solrCloud could use, such as zkhost=localhost:8123.

String

Message Operations

The following Solr operations are currently supported. Simply set an exchange header with a key of "SolrOperation" and a value set to one of the following. Some operations also require the message body to be set.

Operation Message body Description

INSERT/INSERT_STREAMING

n/a

adds an index using message headers (must be prefixed with "SolrField.")

INSERT/INSERT_STREAMING

File

adds an index using the given File (using ContentStreamUpdateRequest)

INSERT/INSERT_STREAMING

SolrInputDocument

updates index based on the given SolrInputDocument

INSERT/INSERT_STREAMING

String XML

updates index based on the given XML (must follow SolrInputDocument format)

ADD_BEAN

bean instance

adds an index based on values in an annotated bean

ADD_BEANS

collection<bean>

adds index based on a collection of annotated bean

DELETE_BY_ID

index id to delete

delete a record by ID

DELETE_BY_QUERY

query string

delete a record by a query

COMMIT

n/a

performs a commit on any pending index changes

SOFT_COMMIT

n/a

performs a soft commit (without guarantee that Lucene index files are written to stable storage; useful for Near Real Time operations) on any pending index changes

ROLLBACK

n/a

performs a rollback on any pending index changes

OPTIMIZE

n/a

performs a commit on any pending index changes and then runs the optimize command

Example

Below is a simple INSERT, DELETE and COMMIT example

from("direct:insert")
    .setHeader(SolrConstants.OPERATION, constant(SolrConstants.OPERATION_INSERT))
    .setHeader(SolrConstants.FIELD + "id", body())
    .to("solr://localhost:8983/solr");

from("direct:delete")
    .setHeader(SolrConstants.OPERATION, constant(SolrConstants.OPERATION_DELETE_BY_ID))
    .to("solr://localhost:8983/solr");

from("direct:commit")
    .setHeader(SolrConstants.OPERATION, constant(SolrConstants.OPERATION_COMMIT))
    .to("solr://localhost:8983/solr");
<route>
    <from uri="direct:insert"/>
    <setHeader name="SolrOperation">
        <constant>INSERT</constant>
    </setHeader>
    <setHeader name="SolrField.id">
        <simple>${body}</simple>
    </setHeader>
    <to uri="solr://localhost:8983/solr"/>
</route>
<route>
    <from uri="direct:delete"/>
    <setHeader name="SolrOperation">
        <constant>DELETE_BY_ID</constant>
    </setHeader>
    <to uri="solr://localhost:8983/solr"/>
</route>
<route>
    <from uri="direct:commit"/>
    <setHeader name="SolrOperation">
        <constant>COMMIT</constant>
    </setHeader>
    <to uri="solr://localhost:8983/solr"/>
</route>

A client would simply need to pass a body message to the insert or delete routes and then call the commit route.

    template.sendBody("direct:insert", "1234");
    template.sendBody("direct:commit", null);
    template.sendBody("direct:delete", "1234");
    template.sendBody("direct:commit", null);

Querying Solr

Currently, this component doesn’t support querying data natively (may be added later). For now, you can query Solr using HTTP as follows:

//define the route to perform a basic query
from("direct:query")
    .recipientList(simple("http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=${body}"))
    .convertBodyTo(String.class);
...
//query for an id of '1234' (url encoded)
String responseXml = (String) template.requestBody("direct:query", "id%3A1234");

For more information, see these resources…​

Solr Query Tutorial

Solr Query Syntax

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using solr with Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-solr-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 3 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

camel.component.solr.basic-property-binding

Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities

false

Boolean

camel.component.solr.enabled

Whether to enable auto configuration of the solr component. This is enabled by default.

Boolean

camel.component.solr.lazy-start-producer

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

Boolean
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