This is a placeholder page for a new module that is intended to create nodereference style relationships between nodes and solr datasources.
A common use case for this would be the following:
Acme Brick Building has a list of products maintained by the Acme Product Management System. That system sends all of its products to a solr index. The Acme drupal website needs to relate various items, such as press releases with products in the product management system and display basic information about them.
This should be accomplished by implementing the solrfield module, adding a solrfield field to the article content type and configuring this field to query a designated solr instance. The key value of the selected results will be stored in the filed related to this item.
what this project will not be:
this project will not be an import system that imports data from other sources. this will merely query a solr index and present data it gets back based on a defined relationship.
future plans/goals
It would be great if this could be integrated into views3 in any of a few ways:
1) use views 3 to directly compose the solr query and have this filed use the same concept nodereference uses of "optional view to use".
2) with a way to join data across multiple sources.
If you are interested in helping with this project please feel free to contact me!