Building it

You'll need to tell Ant where to find your VuFind directory:

 ant -Dvufind=/path/to/vufind-1.4

This process will produce a .jar file that you can copy into your VuFind directory:

 cp vufind-custom-normaliser.jar /path/to/vufind-1.4/solr/lib

With that in place, you just need to arrange for the browse indexing and browse handlers to use your custom class. Both need to use it since they need to apply normalisation rules consistently.

You can run the browse indexing with:

 NORMALISER="com.teaspoonconsulting.vufind.CustomNormaliser" ./index-alphabetic-browse.sh

and the custom normaliser class will be used in place of the default.

To have Solr also use the normaliser, you can add a line to the top of your vufind.sh find (after #!/bin/sh) like:

 export NORMALISER="com.teaspoonconsulting.vufind.CustomNormaliser" 

and now the user's from parameter will have the custom normaliser applied to it too.

Author

Mark Triggs mark@teaspoon-consulting.com