Solr conditional adds/updates?

Question

I have a fairly simple need to do a conditional update in Solr, which is easily accomplished in MySQL.

For example,

• I have 100 documents with a unique

Answer 1

With really custom addition logic like this, I find that writing your own client side updater works better. It keeps you from mucking around in Solr internals, which makes it easier to update in the future. You can definitly do this in SolrJ, but if you aren't a Java dev, there is probably a clientside library in your own preferred language... PHP, Python, Ruby, C# etc...

The rsolr Ruby gem (http://github.com/mwmitchell/rsolr/tree/master) makes it VERY easy to hack together a custom load script.