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Will White commented on SOLR-16820:
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Sure thing [~gerlowskija], I'd be happy to (y)
It'll likely be Sunday at the earliest (busy week ahead!), hope that's ok
time-wise.
> PackageUtils collection validation is more restrictive than
> CreateCollectionAPI allows
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> Key: SOLR-16820
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-16820
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Components: Package Manager
> Reporter: Will White
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: packagemanager
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> It's possible to create a collection via the CreateCollectionAPI which
> [passes validation from the
> SolrIdentifierValidation|https://github.com/apache/solr/blob/main/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/util/SolrIdentifierValidator.java#L50-L52]
> (a regex which among other elements includes the '.' character), but that
> same collection name won't then pass validation when deployed/undeployed via
> the PackageTool because of the [packagemanager.PackageUtils
> validateCollection()
> method|https://github.com/apache/solr/blob/main/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/packagemanager/PackageUtils.java#L271].
> A change [like this, using the existing
> SolrIdentifierValidator|https://github.com/apache/solr/commit/638fd768ebd7ed7908029ced08e56bed05a4a2a5]
> would bring the two validation steps back in line, although there's
> presumably a better approach.
> *Potential risks*
> As highlighted by Gus Heck [in this
> thread|https://lists.apache.org/thread/h7hnksgqwxxl7nkwkhn01r6jn8xjkjjs]
> changing the validation of collection names could be a risky change to make.
> The source of the PackageUtils regex appears to be
> [https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/994] from before Solr split from
> the Lucene project, and it seems that the regex wasn't crafted for a specific
> subset of use cases that specifically excluded the '.' character - it just
> appears to be the regex implemented at the time.
> Using the {{SolrIdentifierValidator}} approach mentioned above as an example,
> other than disallowing a collection name that begins with a '-' character,
> the {{SolrIdentifierValidator.identifierPattern}} would be a strict expansion
> of the allowed collection names for the
> {{{}PackageUtils.validateCollections{}}}. Any other solution (such as [this
> more naive
> example|https://github.com/apache/solr/blame/998fffdccf51a0560589e2cb413e9da127a5f26e/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/packagemanager/PackageUtils.java#L271])
> could similarly mitigate a lot of the potential risk by only expanding the
> allowed collection names.
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