Solr8.4.1

README.md

@@ -25,18 +25,20 @@ Two options exist to run Solr.
 If you have [Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop) installed and running.
 
 ```
-docker pull solr:7.7.1
-docker run -p 8983:8983 -v $(PWD)/solr_home:/opt/mysolrhome -e SOLR_HOME=/opt/mysolrhome -e INIT_SOLR_HOME=yes solr:7.7.1
+docker pull solr:8.4.1
+docker run -p 8983:8983 -v $(PWD)/solr_home:/opt/mysolrhome -e SOLR_HOME=/opt/mysolrhome -e INIT_SOLR_HOME=yes solr:8.4.1
 ```
 
 ### Local option
 
-1. Download and unpack [Solr 7.4.0](http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/7.4.0/solr-7.4.0.zip)
+1. Download and unpack [Solr 8.4.1](http://mirror.metrocast.net/apache/lucene/solr/8.4.1/solr-8.4.1.zip)
 
-2. Run Solr pointing at the Solr Home directory included here
+2. Navigate into the newly unzipped directory.
+
+3. Run Solr pointing at the Solr Home directory included in this repo.
 
 ```
-./bin/solr start -f -s /path/to/solr-tmdb/solr_home/
+bin/solr start -f -s /path/to/solr-tmdb/solr_home/
 ```
 
 Regardless of the option you choose, navigate to [http://localhost:8983/solr/](http://localhost:8983/solr/) to confirm Solr is running.
@@ -77,3 +79,21 @@ python indexTmdb.py
 Navigate [here](http://localhost:8983/solr/tmdb/select?q=title:lego) and confirm you get results.
 
 If you don't see any results, trigger a [manual commit](http://localhost:8983/solr/tmdb/update?commit=true).
+
+# Postman
+
+[Postman](https://www.postman.com/) is an API development tool, that helps build, run and manage API requests. The examples from the TLRE slides exist here too as a Postman Collection (`solr-TLRE-postman_collection.json`). We like using Postman becasue it makes tinkering with query parameters nicer and we think it is a useful way to follow along as you learn about tuning search relevance.
+
+If you want to use Postman during the TLRE class:
+
+1. Download [Postman](https://www.postman.com/downloads/) for your OS
+2. Open Postman and Import (top-menu >> File) `solr-TLRE-postman_collection.json`
+3. Define a global variable (grey eye icon in the upper-right) `solr-host` to point to your running Elasticsearch instance (default is `localhost:8983`)
+4. Tinker with the base URL, Params or JSON Body (optional)
+5. Press 'Send' (blue rectangle button right of URL bar)
+
+This collection is also valuable for testing examples against new versions of Elasticsearch. Using Postman's command line tool [Newman](https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman) you can check all of the requests in the collection:
+
+```
+newman run --global-var "solr_host=localhost:8983" solr-TLRE-postman_collection.json
+```

indexTmdb.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import pysolr
 
-
 def indexableMovies():
     """ Generates TMDB movies, similar to how ES Bulk indexing
         uses a generator to generate bulk index/update actions """
@@ -31,5 +30,4 @@ def indexableMovies():
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     solr = pysolr.Solr('http://localhost:8983/solr/tmdb', timeout=100)
-    solr.add(indexableMovies())
-    solr.commit()
+    solr.add(indexableMovies(), commit=True)