At this point, you should have a schema that you believe will suit your needs, and you should know how to get your data into it. From Solr's native XML to JSON to CSV to databases to rich documents, Solr offers a variety of possibilities to ingest data into the index. Chapter 9, Integrating Solr, will discuss some additional language and framework integration choices for importing data. In the end, usually one or two mechanisms will be used. In addition, you can usually expect the need to write a little code, perhaps just a simple bash or Ant script to implement the automation of getting data from your source system into Solr.

Now that we've got data in Solr, we can finally start searching through it.

The next chapter will describe Solr's query syntax in detail, which includes phrase queries, range queries, wildcards, boosting, as well as the description of Solr's DateMath syntax. The chapters after that will get to more interesting searching topics that of course depend on having data to search on!