[TYPO3-Solr] Indexing custom Items

[hard.one Software GmbH]

Hi

what is the apy-key thingy in solr? can this help me?

As you pointed out: we are using extbase on our side... Can we call the 
hook any how?

Best

Martin

On 30.09.2013 15:43, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 30-9-2013 14:45, hard.one Software GmbH wrote:
>> I have setup indexing for custom tabels and everything works pretty
>> fine. There is only one thing: If new entries are created by the
>> frontend user, they are not added to the index queue.
>> The engine is indexing other changes just fine if they are performed in
>> the backend.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> Solr uses a hook in DataHandler (formerly known as TCEmain) to see if
> records are created/edited/deleted/... and adds them (or the pages they
> belong to in case of content elements) to the indexing queue.
> Records edited/created by a frontend user will probably not use
> DataHandler and thus they are not picked up by solr.
>
> DataHandler was designed to be used in backend context, but it works
> fine in most (if not all) cases as long as you create a backend user
> record for it. If you have a pibase extension you could use DataHandler
> to store records and still be compatible with solr.
> If you use an extbase extension that won't be possible as the
> persistence layer in extbase handles the storage of records.
>
> Examples for using DataHandler (TCEmain) can be found in [1]. The
> ->start() method has an optional third parameter to pass an alternative
> BE user object.
>
> [1] http://blog.tolleiv.de/2010/03/handling-data-in-typo3-with-tcemain/
>