This service is a part of the ADS API. It is a tiny proxy in front of the SOLR.

If you wish to install the service locally:

1. create a python virtual environment virtualenv python
2. install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt; pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
3. create a solr/local_config.py and point at your SOLR instance, example:

SOLR_SERVICE_URL='http://localhost:8983/solr'

1. start the solr-service python cors.py

Note: normally, we run the solr-service using gunicorn (wsgi.py) behind the adsws gateway. In this case, we use cors.py to run the solr-service as a standalone service (without needing the ADS gateway).

Additional facets can be made available to users by specifying them in the Limits table. The table takes one facet along with an associated filter per user per line. these entries are currently inserted manually

INSERT INTO public.limits (uid, field, filter)
VALUES (user_id, solr_field, filter);

filter can be *:*.

The API documentation is available at: https://github.com/adsabs/adsabs.github.io/blob/new-api/content/v1/search.md