SiteSearchData

This project contains the fixings to produce data for a VEuPathDB site search solr core, and to load that data.

All data produced and loaded complies with the VEuPathDB Site Search solr schema.

Its main pieces are:

• a dedicated WDK model that describes the way we represent data from the component database as documents in solr
• a set of programs to create both data and metadata documents to load into solr (using that WDK model), and programs to do the loading.
• additional hard-coded metadata to load that describes in solr the document types we have and their fields
• config file templates that ease the configuration of a $GUS_HOME for use in dumping data for solr

(Please see those folders for detailed documentation.)

Batches

All solr-ready data is dumped, and loaded, in batches. They ensure the validity and trackability of all data in solr. The batches are carefully structured. Each batch:

• is housed in a directory of the form solr-json-batch_xxxxxxxx_yyyyyyyy_nnnnnnnn where:
  • xxxxxxxx is the batch type (eg, organism)
  • yyyyyyyy is the batch name (eg, pfal3D7)
  • nnnnnnnn is a timestamp in seconds since epoch
• has an arbitrary number of zzzzzzzz.json files (where zzzzzzzz is a document type name). These files contain documents with the data (such as Genes) to be loaded. Each document has metadata describing the batch it was loaded in (batch type, name and timestamp).
• a single batch.json file. This file has information describing the batch. Its presence in solr indicates that the batch was successfully loaded. Querying solr for these meta documents shows which batches are present in solr.
• a single DONE file