Drupal Apache Solr new functionality

I have been using the Drupal Apache Solr module since about May 2008 and have seen it evolve into a awsome feature rich module. It is now in a state that it is able to do most of the standard things you need for a client build out of the box including field boosting, more like this and faceted search. The only things I always ended up adding patches for was returning custom fields (to the fl "field list" param) and messing with the results returned from Solr e.g. changing the url or running custom fields through functions or themes. That is until now...
In the current release 6.x-1.0rc* they release a lovely solr query alter hook:
hook_apachesolr_modify_query(&$query, &$params, $caller)
Where

$query: is the current solr search query (defined as q in your solr search url see: apache solr query)
$params: a comma separated list of fields to return from the solr search, so you can either concatenate extra fields onto the end list or replace them with your own requirements
$caller: is the name of the calling module

In Apache Solr 6.x-2.x-dev release they introduced two more new hooks:
hook_apachesolr_search_result($doc, $extra) and hook_apachesolr_process_results($results)
Both these hooks act on the search results passed from Solr:
hook_apachesolr_search_result acts on the individual result items as they are put into the search array structure and any extra data added from comments etc
hook_apachesolr_process_results acts on the enitre result set allowing you to alter on mass, i found this particularly useful when I wanted to alter all of the urls in my search results to be fully qualified so I could send them to different static servers
All in all a great module and with views 3 on the horzion with the possibility of defining search results widgets from anything from Google maps to Grid view result Drupal is showing it can compete with any CMS on the Market open source or other wise!!

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