Scorched is a sunburnt offspring and like all offspring it tries to make things better or at least different.

Git Repository and issue tracker: https://github.com/lugensa/scorched Documentation: http://scorched.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

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Following some major differences:

• No validation of queries in client code (make code much more lightweight)
• Send and receive as json. (Faster 20k docs from 6.5s to 1.3s)
• API is more lightweight e.g. add consums now only dicts.
• Wildcard search strings need to be explicitly set.
• Python 3
• ...

First checkout the sources:

https://github.com/lugensa/scorched.git

Now create a virtual-env and install some dependencies:

cd scorched
virtualenv ./
bin/pip install -e .

Start the solr server to test against:

# DEBUG=1|0: verbose output of solr server on|off
# SOLR_VERSION=x.y.z (the version to test against)
# the solr startup script reports the pid of the solr process
SOLR_VERSION=4.10.2 SOLR_PORT=44177 DEBUG=1 SOLR_CONFS="scorched/tests/solrconfig.xml" ./testing-solr.sh

# stop solr
kill -9 $pid

Running the tests:

SOLR_URL=http://localhost:44177/solr/core0 ./bin/nosetests -s scorched