Solr - Querying with SolrJ

I added a method, cleverly named FindIds, to my test code that will find the unique IDs by doing a search on lookup IDs that are in a range from 0 to 10000.  The query string looks like this:

"lookupids:[0 TO 10000]"

Even though the query is incredibly simple, I used the Solr admin page to test the query first.  That way I could know what to expect to see from SolrJ.  If I got different results from SolrJ, then I would know I that I would need to investigate to see why there was a difference.

Here is the code used:

public static void main(String[] args)  {
  ArrayList<String> ids = SolrIndexer.FindIds("lookupids:[0 TO 10000]");

  for (String id : ids) {
    System.out.printf("%s%n", id);
  }
}

public static ArrayList<String> FindIds(String searchString) {
  ArrayList<String> ids = new ArrayList<String>();
  int startPosition = 0;

  try {

    SolrServer server = new HttpSolrServer("http://localhost:8983/solr");
    SolrQuery query = new SolrQuery();
    query.setQuery(searchString);
    query.setStart(startPosition);
    query.setRows(20);
    QueryResponse response = server.query(query);
    SolrDocumentList docs = response.getResults();
    
    while (docs.size() > 0) {
      startPosition += 20;

      for(SolrDocument doc : docs) {
        ids.add(doc.get("id").toString());
      }

      query.setStart(startPosition);
      response = server.query(query);
      docs = response.getResults();
    }

  } catch (SolrServerException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();  
  }
  
  return ids;
}

If you don't set the number of rows to be returned using query.setRows(), then the default number of rows to be returned will be used.  The default used in the Solr example config is 10.  

If the query results in nothing being found, then the SolrDocumentList is instantiated with 0 items.  If there is an error with the query string, then an Exception will be thrown.

Something nice to add is a sort field.  ie, query.setSortField("id", SolrQuery.ORDER.asc);  

There are still some areas that I want to explore with SolrJ, so I will be posting more in the near future.