I have not worked with shards/distributed, but I think you can probably
specify them as defaults in your requesthandler in your solrconfig.xml
instead.
Somewhere there is (or was) a wiki page on this I can't find right now.
There's a way to specify (for a particular request handler) a default
parameter value, such as for 'shards', that will be used if none were
given with the request. There's also a way to specify an invariant that
will always be used even if something else is passed in on the request.
Ah, found it: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SearchHandler#Configuration
On 4/11/2011 8:31 AM, Ran Peled wrote:
In the Distributed Search page (
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch), it is documented that in
order to perform a distributed search over a sharded index, I should use the
"shards" request parameter, listing the shards to participate in the search
(e.g. ?shards=localhost:8983/solr,localhost:7574/solr). I am planning a
new pretty large index (1B+ items). Say I have a 100 shards, specifying the
shards on the request URL becomes unrealistic due to length of URL. It is
also redundant to do that on every request.
Is there a way to specify the list of shards in a configuration file,
instead of on the query URL? I have seen references to relevant config in
SolrCloud, but as I understand it planned to be released only in Solr 4.0.
Thanks,
Ran
