Can you create a Solr collection in Railo with script?

Question

ColdFusion 10 now supports this syntax for creating a Solr collection:

cfcollection supports script style syntax:

new collection().CREATE(collection="<collection_name>", engine="solr", path="<path to the solr directory>"); 

Is some sort of syntax like this available in Railo 4?

I keep getting an error saying:

invalid component definition, can't find collection

If not, can this be set up as a UDF so that I can call it from a script-based component?

Answer 1

The latest beta of Railo 4.0 currently implements the following objects:

• Feed
• Ftp
• Http
• Mail
• Query

So, the answer is no - there is no "collection" object.
(You can of course raise a feature request for adding that.)

However, there is an alternative - in Railo pretty much all the tags can be reproduced in script form.

You can write:

<cftagname attributes />

as

<cfscript>
    tagname attributes ;
</cfscript>

Or for tags with bodies:

<cftagname attributes >
    ...
</cftagname>

becomes

<cfscript>
    tagname attributes
    {
        ...
    }
</cfscript>

So simply factor your cfcollection tag in this form and it should work fine.