hi guys, First of all, thanks for DIH - it's great :) One thing I noticed during my tests ( nightly, 2008-08-16) is that, if the DB is not available during SOLR startup time, the whole core won't initialise .- the error is shown below.
I was wondering, 1) would it be possible to have DIH bomb out in this situation, but not bring down the whole core from running? I think it would be desirable , with a big warning , possibly... thoughts ? 2) How hard would it be to handle this more gracefully - for example, in case of error, leave the handler in an non-init state, and when being accessed, repeat the whole init process (and bomb out if it fails again ,of course)... Thanks for your time on this email + DIH + all other features :) B [...] Aug 17, 2008 11:25:48 PM org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandler processConfiguration INFO: Processing configuration from solrconfig.xml: {config=data-config.xml} Aug 17, 2008 11:25:48 PM org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter loadDataConfig INFO: Data Configuration loaded successfully Aug 17, 2008 11:25:48 PM org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource$1 call INFO: Creating a connection for entity an_artist with URL: jdbc:sqlserver://a.b.c.d:1433;databaseName=DBNAME;user=usrname;password=magicpassword;responseBuffering=adaptive; Aug 17, 2008 11:25:48 PM org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandler inform SEVERE: Exception while loading DataImporter org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandlerException: Failed to initialize DataSource: null Processing Documemt # at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.getDataSourceInstance(DataImporter.java:306) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.addDataSource(DataImporter.java:273) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.initEntity(DataImporter.java:228) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.<init>(DataImporter.java:98) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandler.inform(DataImportHandler.java:106) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.inform(SolrResourceLoader.java:294) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:473) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.create(CoreContainer.java:295) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.load(CoreContainer.java:207) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$Initializer.initialize(CoreContainer.java:107) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:69) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doStart(FilterHolder.java:97) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:593) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1220) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:513) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:448) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:156) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:222) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39) at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:977) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.mortbay.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:183) at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:497) at org.mortbay.start.Main.main(Main.java:115) Caused by: org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandlerException: Unable to create database connection Processing Documemt # at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.init(JdbcDataSource.java:67) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.getDataSourceInstance(DataImporter.java:303) ... 34 more Caused by: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The TCP/IP connection to the host has failed. java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDriverError(Unknown Source) at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectHelper(Unknown Source) at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.loginWithoutFailover(Unknown Source) at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connect(Unknown Source) at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(Unknown Source) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:154) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource$1.call(JdbcDataSource.java:125) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource$1.call(JdbcDataSource.java:120) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.init(JdbcDataSource.java:65) ... 35 more [...] _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Web2.0 is outsourced R&D from Web1.0 companies." 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