How to handle #select in Play! Framework - java

I'm trying to fill a combo using the helper #select of Play! in a form, but searching a lot, I not found what I exactly need.
I want something like this:
#select(
filmeForm("Director"),
options(Seq(aListOfDirectors))
)
This is a form of register of movies, that get Foreign key of a Director.
I need list the directors names, and when I send the form, I need to get the ID of selected director.
If this way is not possible, some similar way will be useful.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.

HTML select tag can have a set of option tags like the following:
<select id="directors-select" name="director">
<option value="steven-spilberg">Steven Spilberg</option>
<option value="stanley-kubric">Stanley Kubric</option>
</select>
So, to proper populate select's options, Play #select helper requires that the Seq contains a tuple (String, String), which will contains both the value attribute and also the "label" presented to the user. In other words, options parameter needs to be a Seq[(String, String)]. Here is the example given at the docs:
#select(
field = myForm("mySelect"),
options = Seq(
"Foo" -> "foo text",
"Bar" -> "bar text",
"Baz" -> "baz text"
),
'_default -> "Choose One",
'_disabled -> Seq("FooKey", "BazKey")
'cust_att_name -> "cust_att_value"
)
So, your aListOfDirectors needs to contains a (String, String) tuple. But it is actually pretty simple to solve this, just change your code to:
#select(
field = filmeForm("Director"),
options = aListOfDirectors.map(director => director.id.toString -> director.name)
)
Here, I'm considering that aListOfDirectors is a Seq[Director].
Where is it documented?
Play documentation for (Java) forms states that "there are several input helpers in the views.html.helper package." After that, I just looked up at the play scaladocs and then navigate to views.html.helper package. There you can find the docs for #select.
I know that when people says "read the docs" that sometimes sounds harsh, but it is a good advice considering that framework/software/lib developers (who really knows the framework/software/lib) spent their time to explain how to use the framework/software/lib, we for sure can spend some time reading the docs.

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Which naming pattern should i use for basic CRUD?

I'm creating a RestFul API for the first time using spring framework and now im a bit confused about the common labels used to create, read, update and delete. I want to follow a pattern for an easy maintenance in the code. Is there any rule or naming pattern for the labels that I should follow?
Im thinking about:
/service -> return every services
/service/new -> create new service
/service/update -> update service
/service/delete -> delete service
Use the HTTP verb to control what you want to do with the resouces:
GET: /services -> returns all elements
GET: /services/{id} -> returns element with id
POST: /services -> creates a new object, pass the object in the body
PUT: /services/{id} -> updates element with id, pass updated values in body
DELETE: /services/{id} -> delete element with id
I strongly recommend you use query params for paging in GET: /services, return a default number on page 1 if it's not listed.
A full request could look like: http://www.example.com/services?page=5&count=10

Get multiple feeds from Facebook with Android

I've done my best to find the answer, but nothings seems to cover what I'm trying to do. I know how to get a single feed, from say a fan page like Starbucks, or Pepsi using the Graph API. What I want to do is get several, or multiple, feeds in a single request. Is this possible? I was told by another developer that it is, but haven't found anything on this subject in the FB documentation, or anywhere else online. I have like 50 feeds I want to aggregate into a single feed, and I don't want to make 50 different requests to get all that data.
Has anyone know how to do this, or know if it's even possible?
Thanks.
After ever MORE searching, apparently you can do this. You do this by using Batch Requests:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/batch/
Hope this will save someone time in the future :)
Looks like you can't really.
This works:
SELECT page_id
FROM page
WHERE username='facebook'
OR username='coca-cola'
{
"data": [
{
"page_id": 20531316728
},
{
"page_id": 40796308305
}
]
}
This works (~100 results):
SELECT post_id,message
FROM stream
WHERE source_id IN (
SELECT page_id
FROM page
WHERE username='facebook'
) LIMIT 100
But this doesn't really works (3 results):
SELECT post_id,message
FROM stream
WHERE source_id IN (
SELECT page_id
FROM page
WHERE username='facebook'
OR username='coca-cola'
) LIMIT 100

How to retrieve the Field that "hit" in Lucene

Maybe I'm really missing something.
I have indexed a bunch of key/value pairs in Lucene (v4.1 if it matters). Say I have
key1=value1 and key2=value2, e.g. as read from a properties file.
They get indexed both as specific fields and into a catchall "ALL" field, e.g.
new Field("key1", "value1", aFieldTypeMimickingKeywords);
new Field("key2", "value2", aFieldTypeMimickingKeywords);
new Field("ALL", "key1=value1", aFieldTypeMimickingKeywords);
new Field("ALL", "key2=value2", aFieldTypeMimickingKeywords);
// then get added to the Document of course...
I can then do a wildcard search, using
new WildcardQuery(new Term("ALL", "*alue1"));
and it will find the hit.
But, it would be nice to get more info, like "what was complete value (e.g. "key1=value1") that goes with that hit?".
The best I can figure out it to get the Document, then get the list of IndexableFields, then loop over all of them and see if the field.stringValue().contains("alue1"). (I can look at the data structures in the debugger and all the info is there)
This seems completely insane cause isn't that what Lucene just did? Shouldn't the Hit information return some of the Fields?
Is Lucene missing what seems like "obvious" functionality? Google and starting at the APIs hasn't revealed anything straightforward, but I feel like I must be searching on the wrong stuff.
You might want to try with IndexSearcher.explain() method. Once you get the ID of the matching document, prepare a query for each field (using the same search keywords) and invoke Explanation.isMatch() for each query: the ones that yield true will give you the matched field. Example:
for (String field: fields){
Query query = new WildcardQuery(new Term(field, "*alue1"));
Explanation ex = searcher.explain(query, docID);
if (ex.isMatch()){
//Your query matched field
}
}

Find out which field matched term in custom score script

I am using a custom score query with a multiMatchQuery. Ultimately what I want is simple and requires little explaination. In my Java Custom Score Script, I want to be able to find out which field a result matched to.
Example:
If I search Starbucks and a result comes back with the name Starbucks then I want to be able to know that name.basic was the field that matched my query. If I search for coffee and starbucks comes back I want to be able to know that tags was the field that matched.
Is there anyway to do this?
Search Query Code:
def basicSearchableSearch(t: String, lat: Double, lon: Double, r: Double, z: Int, bb: BoundingBox, max: Int): SearchResponse = {
val multiQuery = filteredQuery(
multiMatchQuery(t)
//Matches businesses and POIs
.field("name.basic").operator(Operator.OR)
.field("name.no_space")
//Businesses only
.field("tags").boost(6f),
geoBoundingBoxFilter("location")
.bottomRight(bb.botRight.y,bb.botRight.x)
.topLeft(bb.topLeft.y,bb.topLeft.x)
)
val customQuery = customScoreQuery(
multiQuery
)
.script("customJavaScript")
.lang("native")
.param("lat",lat)
.param("lon",lon)
.param("zoom",z)
global.Global.getClient().prepareSearch("searchable")
.setSearchType(SearchType.DFS_QUERY_THEN_FETCH)
.setQuery(customQuery)
.setFrom(0).setSize(max)
.execute()
.actionGet();
}
It's only simple for simple queries. On complex queries, the question which field matched is actually quite nontrivial. So, I cannot think of any efficient way to do it.
Perhaps, you could consider moving your custom score calculation closer to the match. The multi_match query is basically a shortcut for a set of match queries on the same query string combined by a dis_max query. So, you are currently building something like this:
custom_score(
filtered(
dis_max(match_1, match_2, match_3)
)
)
What you can do is to move your custom_score under dis_max and build something like this:
filtered(
dis_max(
custom_score_1(match_1),
custom_score_2(match_2),
custom_score_3(match_3)
)
)
Obviously, this will be a somewhat different query, since dis_max will operate on custom score instead of original score.

Why wont this sort in Solr work?

I need to sort on a date-field type, which name is "mod_date".
It works like this in the browser adress-bar:
http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?&q=bmw&sort=mod_date+desc
But I am using a phpSolr client which sends an URL to Solr, and the url sent is this:
fq=+category%3A%22Bilar%22+%2B+car_action%3AS%C3%A4ljes&version=1.2&wt=json&json.nl=map&q=%2A%3A%2A&start=0&rows=5&sort=mod_date+desc
// This wont work and is echoed after this in php:
$queryString = http_build_query($params, null, $this->_queryStringDelimiter);
$queryString = preg_replace('/%5B(?:[0-9]|[1-9][0-9]+)%5D=/', '=', $queryString);
This wont work, I dont know why!
Everything else works fine, all right fields are returned. But the sort doesn't work.
Any ideas?
Thanks
BTW: The field "mod_date" contains something like:
2010-03-04T19:37:22.5Z
EDIT:
First I use PHP to send this to a SolrPhpClient which is another php-file called service.php:
require_once('../SolrPhpClient/Apache/Solr/Service.php');
$solr = new Apache_Solr_Service('localhost', 8983, '/solr/');
$results = $solr->search($querystring, $p, $limit, $solr_params);
$solr_params is an array which contains the solr-parameters (q, fq, etc).
Now, in service.php:
$params['version'] = self::SOLR_VERSION;
// common parameters in this interface
$params['wt'] = self::SOLR_WRITER;
$params['json.nl'] = $this->_namedListTreatment;
$params['q'] = $query;
$params['sort'] = 'mod_date desc'; // HERE IS THE SORT I HAVE PROBLEM WITH
$params['start'] = $offset;
$params['rows'] = $limit;
$queryString = http_build_query($params, null, $this->_queryStringDelimiter);
$queryString = preg_replace('/%5B(?:[0-9]|[1-9][0-9]+)%5D=/', '=', $queryString);
if ($method == self::METHOD_GET)
{
return $this->_sendRawGet($this->_searchUrl . $this->_queryDelimiter . $queryString);
}
else if ($method == self::METHOD_POST)
{
return $this->_sendRawPost($this->_searchUrl, $queryString, FALSE, 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
}
The $results contain the results from Solr...
So this is the way I need to get to work (via php).
This code below (also on top of this Q) works but thats because I paste it into the adress bar manually, not via the PHPclient. But thats just for debugging, I need to get it to work via the PHPclient:
http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?&q=bmw&sort=mod_date+des // Not via phpclient, but works
UPDATE (2010-03-08):
I have tried Donovans codes (the urls) and they work fine.
Now, I have noticed that it is one of the parameters causing the 'SORT' not to work.
This parameter is the "wt" parameter. If we take the url from top of this Q, (fq=+category%3A%22Bilar%22+%2B+car_action%3AS%C3%A4ljes&version=1.2&wt=json&json.nl=map&q=%2A%3A%2A&start=0&rows=5&sort=mod_date+desc), and just simply remove the "wt" parameter, then the sort works.
BUT the results appear differently, thus making my php code not able to recognize the results I believe. Donovan would know this I think. I am guessing in order for the PHPClient to work, the results must be in a specific structure, which gets messed up as soon as I remove the wt parameter.
Donovan, help me please...
Here is some background what I use your SolrPhpClient for:
I have a classifieds website, which uses MySql. But for the searching I am using Solr to search some indexed fields. Then Solr returns an array of ID:numbers (for all matches of the search criteria). Then I use those ID:numbers to find everything in a MySql db and fetch all other information (example is not searchable information).
So simplified: Search -> Solr returns all matches in an array of ID:nrs -> Id:numbers from Solr are the same as the Id numbers in the MySql db, so I can just make a simple match agains every record with the ID matching the ID from the Solr results array.
I don't use Faceting, no boosting, no relevancy or other fancy stuff. I only sort by the latest classified put, and give the option to users to also sort on the cheapest price. Nothing more.
Then I use the "fq" parameter to do queries on different fields in Solr depending on category chosen by users (example "cars" in this case which in my language is "Bilar").
I am really stuck with this problem here...
Thanks for all help
As pointed out in the stack overflow comments, your browser query is different than your php client based query - to remove that from the equation you should test with this corrected. To get the same results as the browser based query you're php code should have looked something like this:
$solr = new Apache_Solr_Client(...);
$searchOptions = array(
'sort' => 'mod_date desc'
);
$results = $solr->search("bmw", 0, 10, $searchOptions);
Instead, I imagine it looks more like:
$searchOptions = array(
'fq' => 'category:"Bilar" + car_action:Sälje',
'sort' => 'mod_date desc'
)
$solr->search("\*:*", 0, 10, $searchOptions);
What I expect you to see is that php client results will be the same as the browser based results, and I imagine the same would happen if you did it the opposite way - take your current parameters from the php client and applied them correctly to the browser based query.
Now onto your problem, you don't see documents sorted properly.
I would try this query, which is the equivalent of the php client based code:
http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?&q=%2A%3A%2A&fq=+category%3A%22Bilar%22+%2B+car_action%3AS%C3%A4ljes&sort=mod_date+desc
versus this query, which moves the filter query into the main query:
http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?&q=+category%3A%22Bilar%22+%2B+car_action%3AS%C3%A4ljes&sort=mod_date+desc
and see if there is a difference. If there is, then it might be a bug in how results from cached filtered queries are used and sorted by solr - which wouldn't be a problem with the client, but the solr service itself.
Hope this gets you closer to an anser.
Use session's values for save sort parameters.
The quick answer in case someone is attempting to sort via solr-php-client:
$searchOptions = array('sort' => 'field_date desc');
Ditch the + sign that you would usually put on the URL. It took me a while as well to figure it out, I was encoding it and putting it all over the place...
It's possible it's related to the json.nl=map parameter. When the response is set to JSON with wt=json and json.nl=map, facets are not sorted as expected with the facet.sort or f.<field_name>.facet.sort=count|index options.
e.g. with facet.sort=count and wt=json only, I get:
"dc_coverage": [
"United States",
5,
"19th century",
1,
"20th century",
1,
"Detroit (Mich.)",
1,
"Pennsylvania",
1,
"United States--Michigan--Detroit",
1,
"United States--Washington, D.C.",
1
]
But with facet.sort=count, wt=json, and json.nl=map as an option, you can see the sorting is lost:
"dc_coverage": {
"19th century": 1,
"20th century": 1,
"Detroit (Mich.)": 1,
"Pennsylvania": 1,
"United States": 5,
"United States--Michigan--Detroit": 1,
"United States--Washington, D.C.": 1
}
There is more information here about formatting the JSON response when using json.nl=map: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Response+Writers#ResponseWriters-JSONResponseWriter

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