Velocity Response Writer
The VelocityResponseWriter is an optional plugin available in the contrib/velocity
directory. It powers the /browse user interfaces when using configurations such as "_default", "techproducts", and "example/files".
Its JAR and dependencies must be added (via <lib>
or solr/home lib inclusion), and must be registered in solrconfig.xml
like this:
<queryResponseWriter name="velocity" class="solr.VelocityResponseWriter">
<str name="template.base.dir">${velocity.template.base.dir:}</str>
<!--
<str name="init.properties.file">velocity-init.properties</str>
<bool name="params.resource.loader.enabled">true</bool>
<bool name="solr.resource.loader.enabled">false</bool>
<lst name="tools">
<str name="mytool">com.example.MyCustomTool</str>
</lst>
-->
</queryResponseWriter>
The above example shows the optional initialization and custom tool parameters used by VelocityResponseWriter; these are detailed in the following table. These initialization parameters are only specified in the writer registration in solrconfig.xml
, not as request-time parameters. See further below for request-time parameters.
Configuration & Usage
VelocityResponseWriter Initialization Parameters
template.base.dir
- If specified and exists as a file system directory, a file resource loader will be added for this directory. Templates in this directory will override "solr" resource loader templates.
init.properties.file
- Specifies a properties file name which must exist in the Solr
conf/
directory (not under avelocity/
subdirectory) or root of a JAR file in a <lib>. params.resource.loader.enabled
The "params" resource loader allows templates to be specified in Solr request parameters. For example:
http://localhost:8983/solr/gettingstarted/select?q=\*:*&wt=velocity&v.template=custom&v.template.custom=CUSTOM%3A%20%23core_name
where
v.template=custom
says to render a template called "custom" and the value ofv.template.custom
is the custom template. This isfalse
by default; it’d be a niche, unusual, use case to need this enabled.solr.resource.loader.enabled
- The "solr" resource loader is the only template loader registered by default. Templates are served from resources visible to the SolrResourceLoader under a
velocity/
subdirectory. The VelocityResponseWriter itself has some built-in templates (in its JAR file, undervelocity/
) that are available automatically through this loader. These built-in templates can be overridden when the same template name is in conf/velocity/ or by using thetemplate.base.dir
option. tools
External "tools" can be specified as list of string name/value (tool name / class name) pairs. Tools, in the Velocity context, are simply Java objects. Tool classes are constructed using a no-arg constructor (or a single-SolrCore-arg constructor if it exists) and added to the Velocity context with the specified name.
A custom registered tool can override the built-in context objects with the same name, except for
$request
,$response
,$page
, and$debug
(these tools are designed to not be overridden).
VelocityResponseWriter Request Parameters
v.template
- Specifies the name of the template to render.
v.layout
Specifies a template name to use as the layout around the main,
v.template
, specified template.The main template is rendered into a string value included into the layout rendering as
$content
.v.layout.enabled
- Determines if the main template should have a layout wrapped around it. The default is
true
, but requiresv.layout
to specified as well. v.contentType
Specifies the content type used in the HTTP response. If not specified, the default will depend on whether
v.json
is specified or not.The default without
v.json=wrf
:text/html;charset=UTF-8
.The default with
v.json=wrf
:application/json;charset=UTF-8
.v.json
Specifies a function name to wrap around the response rendered as JSON. If specified, the content type used in the response will be "application/json;charset=UTF-8", unless overridden by
v.contentType
.Output will be in this format (with
v.json=wrf
):wrf("result":"<Velocity generated response string, with quotes and backslashes escaped>")
v.locale
Locale to use with the
$resource
tool and other LocaleConfig implementing tools. The default locale isLocale.ROOT
. Localized resources are loaded from standard Java resource bundles namedresources[_locale-code].properties
.Resource bundles can be added by providing a JAR file visible by the SolrResourceLoader with resource bundles under a velocity sub-directory. Resource bundles are not loadable under
conf/
, as only the class loader aspect of SolrResourceLoader can be used here.v.template.template_name
- When the "params" resource loader is enabled, templates can be specified as part of the Solr request.
VelocityResponseWriter Context Objects
Context Reference | Description |
---|---|
request | SolrQueryRequest javadocs |
response | QueryResponse most of the time, but in some cases where QueryResponse doesn’t like the request handler’s output (AnalysisRequestHandler, for example, causes a ClassCastException parsing "response"), the response will be a SolrResponseBase object. |
esc | A Velocity EscapeTool instance |
date | A Velocity ComparisonDateTool instance |
math | A Velocity MathTool instance |
number | A Velocity NumberTool instance |
sort | A Velocity SortTool instance |
display | A Velocity DisplayTool instance |
resource | A Velocity ResourceTool instance |
engine | The current VelocityEngine instance |
page | An instance of Solr’s PageTool (only included if the response is a QueryResponse where paging makes sense) |
debug | A shortcut to the debug part of the response, or null if debug is not on. This is handy for having debug-only sections in a template using #if($debug)…#end |
content | The rendered output of the main template, when rendering the layout (v.layout.enabled=true and v.layout=<template> ). |
[custom tool(s)] | Tools provided by the optional "tools" list of the VelocityResponseWriter registration are available by their specified name. |