CoreContainer cc = new CoreContainer(solrCoreDir, configFile);
solrCore = cc.getCore(solrCorename);

Ok, so that was more of an update, but it got me to reindex the our marc content. Our 001 fields don’t always have info, so our Systems Librarian told me just to use the 035a for the id field. There was only one problem…they had a “(Sirsi)” as a prefix to the actual number. This wouldn’t be that big of an issue, but it was causing the queries sent to Solr to be off, and I wasn’t getting any results for a detail view.

Fortunately, Solrmarc already has a facility to deal with this: PatternMaps! To pull out just the number, I changed the id definition in the vufind.properties file to

id = 035a, (pattern_map.id), first

This basically maps the id field in the schema.xml file to the 035a, using a patternMap named pattern_map.id, and only takes the first of the 035a if there are multiples. I know, there shouldn’t be, but I’ve seen funky things

Now, to add the PatternMap definition:

pattern_map.id.pattern_0 = \\(Sirsi\\)\\ (.*)=>$1

It’s just a simple regex pattern definition that takes out the “(Sirsi)” and the space between it and the actual id we’re using.