[Blacklight-development] Customizing Blacklight

[Vernon Chapman]

Matt,

Thanks. I just did what I probably should have done before asking the 
question.
I'm glad I actually figured that part out by myself, there is something 
about when the light goes on that you
just can't beat. That little tidbit along with the detailed explanation 
by Jessie gives me a little insight hopefully
I can get something cracking to show my boss by next week.

Thanks to everyone who has helped the newb with the dumb questions.
I really am interested in learning more about BL & Rails, if I can get 
something working by middle of
next week my boss might just pay for railsconf in vegas!  Wish me luck!

Thanks Again

 Vern


Matt Mitchell wrote:
> Hi Vernon,
>
> You're right on with that param_mappers thing. Good work. The schema 
> defines the fields/params in the request handlers. This is something 
> that has dramatically simplified the controllers/configs from the 
> previous version of BL. It also offers the advantages of having the 
> fields defined in one place, and any other client that uses your solr 
> instance can expect the same response as BL does. If we were to put 
> all of the mapping in the UI layer, other clients would have to mimic 
> the params, which would be cruel. The client can always override 
> what's been defined in the solrconfig.xml file.
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Vernon Chapman 
> <chapman.lists at gmail.com <mailto:chapman.lists at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     HI Bess,
>
>     I decided to just try and wade through the code, and I think I
>     have a pretty good idea of what I need to do.
>
>     I am actually interested in customizing both the index and the
>     interface.
>     Customizing the index would basically consist of me changing
>     the schema on my external solr server at least AFAIKT.
>
>     Next I think I would need to extend the BlackLight module and add
>     somtehting like:
>
>     Blacklight.solr.param_mappers[:news]     = :dismax
>     Blacklight.solr.param_mappers[:events]   = :dismax
>     Blacklight.solr.param_mappers[:content] = :dismax
>
>     where :news || :events || :content is the name of the handler that
>     I have created
>     in my solrconfig.xml and :dismax is the type of handler my handler is.
>
>     That is as far as I have gotten am I on the right track?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Vern
>
>
>     Bess Sadler wrote:
>
>         Hi, Vern.
>
>         Unfortunately we don't have a lot of documentation about
>         customizing Blacklight written yet, but we are working on
>         that. Are you mainly interested in customizing the index, or
>         the interface, or both?
>
>         If you're fairly happy with the default index fields, you
>         could just map your dublin core fields to them, and then
>         customize the interface to fit your look and feel.
>
>         We have dedicated some folks to writing documentation (and
>         maybe even creating a screencast) about installation and
>         customization, and if you give us more details about what
>         you're trying to do we might be able to shape the
>         documentation to better fit your needs.
>
>         Thanks!
>         Bess
>
>         On 4-Mar-09, at 5:06 PM, Vernon Chapman wrote:
>
>             Is there some documentation on how to customize blacklight?
>             I have a lot or Dublin Core(ish) metadata in a solr index
>             and would like
>             to use blacklight as a front end to it.
>
>             Thanks in advance
>
>             Vern
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