I had success doing something like this, which I found in some of the Solr tests...
SolrResourceLoader loader = new SolrResourceLoader(solrHomeDir.toPath()); Path configSetPath = Paths.get(configSetHome).toAbsolutePath(); final NodeConfig config = new NodeConfig.NodeConfigBuilder("embeddedSolrServerNode", loader) .setConfigSetBaseDirectory(configSetPath.toString()) .build(); EmbeddedSolrServer embeddedSolrServer = new EmbeddedSolrServer(config, coreName); CoreAdminRequest.Create createRequest = new CoreAdminRequest.Create(); createRequest.setCoreName(coreName); createRequest.setConfigSet(coreName); embeddedSolrServer.request(createRequest); The setup was to have a config set located at src/test/resources/configsets so configSetHome was src/test/resources/configsets, the coreName was the name of a configset in that directory, and solrHome was a path to target/solr. https://github.com/bbende/embeddedsolrserver-example/blob/master/src/test/java/org/apache/solr/EmbeddedSolrServerFactory.java https://github.com/bbende/embeddedsolrserver-example/blob/master/src/test/java/org/apache/solr/TestEmbeddedSolrServerFactory.java On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 3:27 AM, Clemens Wyss DEV <clemens...@mysign.ch> wrote: > I am still using 5.4.1 and have the following code to create a new core: > ... > Properties coreProperties = new Properties(); > coreProperties.setProperty( CoreDescriptor.CORE_CONFIGSET, configsetToUse > ); > CoreDescriptor coreDescriptor = new CoreDescriptor( container, coreName, > coreFolder, coreProperties ); > coreContainer.create( coreDescriptor ); > coreContainer.getCoresLocator().create( coreContainer, coreDescriptor ); > ... > > What is the equivalent Java snippet in Solr 6.x (latest greatest)? > > Thx & a successful 2017! > Clemens >