Question

I need to verify that text extraction is working on my Solr installation on Windows Server 2003. All the examples I found for uploading files to Solr use curl like below.

curl "http://localhost:8983/solr/update/extract?&extractOnly=true"  --data-binary @tutorial.html  -H 'Content-type:text/html'

How can I do this in Windows? I want to test upload a pdf and Word document then confirm I can search for words contained in the document using Solr admin page.

Answer 1

With the examples comes a post.jar (see folder example\exampledocs of the apache-solr-X.X.X.zip):

java -jar post.jar -h

This is a simple command line tool for POSTing raw data to a Solr
port.  Data can be read from files specified as commandline args,
as raw commandline arg strings, or via STDIN.
Examples:
  java -jar post.jar *.xml
  java -Ddata=args  -jar post.jar '<delete><id>42</id></delete>'
  java -Ddata=stdin -jar post.jar < hd.xml
  java -Durl=http://localhost:8983/solr/update/csv -Dtype=text/csv -jar post.jar *.csv
  java -Durl=http://localhost:8983/solr/update/json -Dtype=application/json -jar post.jar *.json
  java -Durl=http://localhost:8983/solr/update/extract?literal.id=a -Dtype=application/pdf -jar post.jar a.pdf
Other options controlled by System Properties include the Solr
URL to POST to, the Content-Type of the data, whether a commit
or optimize should be executed, and whether the response should
be written to STDOUT. These are the defaults for all System Properties:
  -Ddata=files
  -Dtype=application/xml
  -Durl=http://localhost:8983/solr/update
  -Dcommit=yes
  -Doptimize=no
  -Dout=no

OR

The Windows PowerShell 3.0 has an Invoke-WebRequest command which for sure could be used for that. See this blog post.