Trappy behavior with default search field

2014-06-05 Thread Erick Erickson
We've all been bitten by the trappy problem with removing the text field from schema.xml and then Solr failing to start b/c various handlers specifically call it out. Problem is that as people build out (particularly) SolrCloud clusters, this innocent-seeming action is getting harder and harder

Re: Trappy behavior with default search field

2014-06-05 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
How about a warning section in Admin UI that shows possible issues with the configuration. Could start with something absolutely basic like missing default field (we can detect that from configuration, right?) but I am sure there are other issues we could think of. Regards, Alex. Personal

Re: Trappy behavior with default search field

2014-06-05 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 6/5/2014 10:48 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: We've all been bitten by the trappy problem with removing the text field from schema.xml and then Solr failing to start b/c various handlers specifically call it out. Problem is that as people build out (particularly) SolrCloud clusters, this

Re: Trappy behavior with default search field

2014-06-05 Thread david.w.smi...@gmail.com
In my view, solrconfig.xml shouldn’t refer to any field by name out of the box, except for the /browse handler, and perhaps pre-filling the query form in the admin GUI. That’s it. A couple years ago at about the time I became a committer, I finally did something about a feature I am very