Jonn, I don't want to answer on Erick's behalf, but I am pretty sure there is no UI built in solr 6 that allows you to update the schema and somehow check it in VCS. I would guess that you could do this by exposing an MBean. Anyway that's how I interpreted Erick's reply.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:01 PM, John Bickerstaff <[email protected]> wrote: > Erick - the UI you mention -- something that exists or something that has > to be built? (I'm upgrading to version 6 as well and this question is one > I'll have to deal with...) > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Rachid Bouacheria <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Thank you very much Erick, I appreciate your feed back. > > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Erick Erickson <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > Using classic schema is perfectly acceptable/reasonable, you can > > > continue to do so freely (you'll have to change to > > > ClassicSchemaFactory though). > > > > > > Also, you can freely edit managed-schema just as you did schema.xml. > > > The "trick" here is that you have to take some care _not_ to issue > > > commands that modify the schema or the in-memory version will > > > overwrite the one in ZK. Otherwise, though, you can freely use > > > managed-schema just as you do classic schema. > > > > > > So you can do just what you do now, keep managed-schema in VCS and > > > upconfig it. Also note that Solr 6.2 has "bin/solr zk > > > upconfig/downconfig/cp/mv/ls" functionality. > > > > > > Managed lends itself to some kind of UI that maintains it. The process > > > (IMO) for using that in prod would be something like: > > > > Use the UI to build your schema > > > > copy from ZK to your local machine > > > > put the configs in VCS > > > > Deploy using the VCS as your system-of-record. > > > > > > But that's just my approach. If you don't want to use the > > > managed-schema features, switch back to classic IMO. > > > > > > Best, > > > Erick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Rachid Bouacheria < > [email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I am upgrading from solr 4 to 6. > > > > In solr 4 I have a schema.xml that is under version control. > > > > But solr 6 has the notion of a managed schema that could be modified > > via > > > a > > > > solr api call. > > > > This seems great and flexible, but my assumption is that in this case > > > > zookeeper becomes the authoritative copy and not SVN or Git. > > > > > > > > And this is where things become unclear to me. > > > > Is the expectation to download the configuration from zk the same way > > we > > > do > > > > an svn checkout to have the configuration and run locally? > > > > How do we know who changed what and when? > > > > > > > > I know that there still is the option to use schema.xml by using > > > > the ClassicIndexSchemaFactory but I am curious to hear from y'all > that > > > use > > > > managed schema how you are doing it and if there are any downside, > > > gotchas, > > > > or if all is just much better :-) > > > > > > > > Seems to me that running locally is harder as you cannot just > checkout > > a > > > > project that contains the up to date schema. > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Rachid. > > > > > >
