rr-bash-tools

A collection of BASH tools that make working with the Retrieve and Rank Watson Service on Bluemix a little easier.

Tutorial

Create a Retrieve and Rank service

First create a Retrieve and Rank service on Bluemix using the following Cloud Foundry commands.

Create the service

cf create-service retrieve_and_rank ecosystem nimhRR

Add a set of service credentials

cf create-service-key nimhRR nimhkey
cf service-key nimhRR nimhkey

Create a 'creds' file in the config directory in the form:

uid:pwd

Use the tools

Create a cluster and check on its status. The status of READY indicates the service is ready for use.

cd bin
./create-cluster.sh
./check-cluster.sh

While waiting on the READY state, edit your SOLR configuration. For purposes of this tutorial, use the base_config in the samples directory.

# assuming you are bin directory
cp -r ../samples/base_config ../config/solr_config

Once your cluster is READY, then load your configuration and create a collection:

./load-config.sh
./create-collection.sh

Now we need to load your data! This tutorial will use the x2js utility.

# assuming you are in bin directory
# convert excel spreadsheet to JSON
x2sj -i ../samples/nimh.xlsx -o ../output/nimh.json
#load documents into SOLR
./load-collection.sh

Then you may query!

./ask.sh