While working on SOLR-11676
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-11676> a few questions came
that were't obvious
Should a user be allowed to specify replicationFactor and nrtReplicas ?
Today it's possible but my answer was it shouldn't be. What do others
think?
If everyone agrees the two shouldn't be specified then there is one problem
while fixing this - SolrJ
if (nrtReplicas != null) {
params.set( ZkStateReader.REPLICATION_FACTOR, nrtReplicas);// Keep
both for compatibility?
params.set( ZkStateReader.NRT_REPLICAS, nrtReplicas);
}
SolrJ sets both replicationFactor and nrtReplicas with the same value.
So if we simply put a check at the server saying "don't allow both
parameters" all SolrJ calls from older clients will fail
The compromise would be the server could check if both nrtReplicas and
replicationFactor are equal then don't error out
Second question, SolrJ doesn't allow a user to specify
replicationFactor but if you're using the API directly it's allowed.
Do we plan on deprecating replicationFactor eventually in favour of
nrtReplicas ? If yes would 7.5 be a good place to start throwing a
warning ?
