Mark Haase created SOLR-7316:
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Summary: API to create a core is broken
Key: SOLR-7316
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7316
Project: Solr
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Server
Affects Versions: 5.0
Reporter: Mark Haase
Steps to reproduce:
1. curl
'http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/cores?action=CREATE&name=new_core&instanceDir=new_core'
Expected result:
Create a core called "new_core"
Actual result:
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Error CREATEing SolrCore 'new_core': Unable to create core [new_core] Caused
by: Can't find resource 'solrconfig.xml' in classpath or
'/var/solr/data/new_core/conf'
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Somebody on solr-users tells me:
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The CoreAdmin API requires that the instanceDir already exist, with a
conf directory inside it that contains solrconfig.xml, schema.xml, and
any other necessary config files.
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Huh? Where is this magical knowledge mentioned in the [API
documentation|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/CoreAdmin+API]?
Another user on the list serve says:
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In fact, yes. The thing to remember here is that you're using a much
older approach that had its roots in the pre-cloud days.
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My response:
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>From an API consumer's point of view, I'm not really interested in being
>forced to learn the history of the project to use the API. *The whole point of
>creating APIs is to abstract out details that the caller doesn't need to know,
>and yet this API requires an understanding of Solr's internal file structure
>and history of the project?*
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(Emphasis added.)
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