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Analysis: What Blacklight does
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What Blacklight Does

Receives Queries

  • Translate Request params to a valid request for index (solr) & use index client library (rsolr) to query the index
  • Log search history (per user/session)
  • Keep track of configured query types (ie. search by title), sorting options and how to apply them

Generates Responses

  • Decide which serialization to return
  • Keep track of mappings between (solr documents) and supported serializations, perform those mappings when requested

For Static HTML Pages

Knows how to Render

  • Search Form

Knows how to Render the following based on a set of Search Results

  • Facet List
  • Facet Hit, Count & Link to Facet
  • Search Constraints (“you searched for…”)
  • Pagination
  • Suggestions?
  • Results List - Gallery, List, Compact List
  • Title of each search result
  • Appropriate fields per-result for search results (Configured fields for index views)
  • Links to view details of each search result

Knows how to Render the following based on a Document

  • Title
  • Field Values (Configured fields for show/“detail” view)
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