Suggestion, curious what other people think of it, if I should bother
filing a JIRA and/or trying to come up with a patch.
Currently, when you configure a replication <lst name="slave">, you HAVE
to give it a <masterUrl>.
SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: 'masterUrl' is required
for a slave
at org.apache.solr.handler.SnapPuller.<init>(SnapPuller.java:126)
at
org.apache.solr.handler.ReplicationHandler.inform(ReplicationHandler.java:775)
at
org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.inform(SolrResourceLoader.java:508)
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:588)
At first this makes sense, why would you want a slave without a
masterUrl? But since you can supply the masterUrl as a query parameter
in /replication?command=fetchIndex&masterUrl=X, there's really no reason
to require you to specify it in the solrconfig.xml, if you are planning
on not having automatic polling, but just triggering replication
manually, and supplying the masterUrl in the command every time. This
can sometimes be convenient for letting some other monitor process
decide when and how to replicate, instead of having solr itself be
configured for pulling via polling.
Does that make any sense?
