Integrate Solr with Spring Boot

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2 min readJan 28, 2019

In this tutorial, I will show you how to improve your search by integrating Solr with Spring Boot. Spring-data-solr is the extension of spring data which used to integrate Solr with spring boot.

What is Solr:

Apache Solr is both a search engine and a distributed document database with SQL support. Solr is a search engine at heart, but it is much more than that. It is a NoSQL database with transactional support.

Steps:

Configure Solr
Create a Solr Document
Create a Solr Repository

NOTE: Complete example for Solr REST API is provided in github project.

Configure Solr:

Download Solr:

You can download Solr here:

Basic Solr Commands:

Directory solr/solr-5.3.1Start Solr: ./bin/solr start
Stop Solr: ./bin/solr stop
Check Logs: tail -f server/logs/solr.logStart Solr on a different port: ./bin/solr start -p 2000

Run Solr:

cd solr/solr-5.3.1
./bin/solr start

Create Core:

./bin/solr create -c user_core

Integrate with Spring Boot Project

Add Dependency

Maven:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-solr</artifactId>
  </dependency>

Gradle:

implementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-solr')

Create a Solr Document:

The Solr document is created by using @SolrDocument annotation and the core is defined in it.

@Indexed annotation is used for fields to make them searchable.

Create a Solr Repository:

Note: If Solr is running on a different Port(8983) add a property in the application.properties file:

spring.data.solr.host=http://127.0.0.1:3000/solr

For the complete API reference, you can check the project on Github.

anuragdhunna/solrIntegration

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Originally published at www.viithiisys.com on January 28, 2019.