[2.0] Start some webapp/war (solr) on 'run'

[Martin Grotzke]

Hi,

we're developing a play 2 application that makes use of solr for searching.
For development I want to start solr in some servlet container (e.g.
jetty) when play is started via 'run'.

I found the xsbt-web-plugin
(https://github.com/JamesEarlDouglas/xsbt-web-plugin) but struggle to
integrate it in our build and connect it with the run task.

Has anyone done s.th. like this already and can help to achieve this?

TIA && cheers,
Martin

[El Softwarerero (the player formerly known as sun)]

I have never used SOLR so I am not sure if it wraps Lucene calls. In case you're only interacting with Lucene you can run it embedded in you Play app. BTW: The same works with elasticsearch.

[Guillaume Bort]

I would do something like:

playOnStarted <+= baseDirectory { root =>

    (_: java.net.InetSocketAddress) => <x>{root}/something-like-solr/bin/start</x> !

},

playOnStopped <+= baseDirectory { root =>

    () => <x>{root}/something-like-solr/bin/stop</x> !

}

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Guillaume Bort, http://guillaume.bort.fr