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Alfresco SOLR issue when using multiple locales

Primary LanguageJavaOtherNOASSERTION

Alfresco Patch to Solr6 multiple locale search

Described at issue ALF-21940

This code is not ready for production environments as documented in: Alfresco/SearchServices#234 (comment)

DISCLAIMER

SOLR 6 can be configured to work as SOLR 4 was working in previous Alfresco versions by uncommenting alfresco.cross.locale.datatype.N properties in /opt/solr6/solrhome/conf/shared.properties.

alfresco.cross.locale.datatype.0={http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0}text
alfresco.cross.locale.datatype.1={http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0}content
alfresco.cross.locale.datatype.2={http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0}mltext

You can perform this operation and there is no need to install this addon.

Once this shared.properties file has been modified is required to rebuild SOLR indexes. After that, every searching will be performed in Alfresco with cross-language support and you'll get the same behaviour that is provided by this patch.

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! Please, don't use this plugin in production environments, as it has big impact in search performance, apply the configuration described in the above lines instead.

Description

Alfresco when store a new document save a property called sys:locale, this property is based in the browser selected language. When another user with the browser in a different language go search for the document by the name can not found it, because the locale value is different. This problem is only detected in Solr6.

This patch, remove the parameter locale in Solr6 http requests.

License The plugin is licensed under the LGPL v3.0.

State Current patch release is 1.1.0

Compatibility The current version has been developed using Alfresco 201702 and Alfresco SDK 3.0.1

Original Alfresco resources have been overwritten

Downloading the ready-to-deploy-plugin

The binary distribution is made of one JAR file to be deployed in Alfresco as a repo module:

You can install it by copying JAR file to $ALFRESCO_HOME/modules/platform and re-starting Alfresco.

Building the artifacts

You can build the artifacts from source code using maven $ mvn clean package