Shamik, updating the documentation to reflect what you’ve learned is a great way to get involved with the community. I’d love to see a PR submitted that clarifies the docs and would be happy to review it.
> On Jun 8, 2022, at 7:43 PM, Shamik Bandopadhyay <sham...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Shawn, > > Thanks for the insight. As you've mentioned, renaming the core name in > the core properties file does create unwanted consequences. I did give it a > try in a test environment earlier. Renaming the core is not essential for > us, it's just to add some convenience for a few folks using Solr UI to > browse the data. It'll be good to have the documentation updated at > some point to remove unsupported dthe core admin APIs. > > Appreciate your help. > > Thanks, > Shamik > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 4:21 PM Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > >> On 6/8/2022 5:06 PM, Shamik Bandopadhyay wrote: >>> "msg": "Not supported in SolrCloud", >> >> Using the CoreAdmin API when running in cloud mode is a REALLY bad >> idea. The CoreAdmin API cannot touch information in zookeeper. With >> part of the information for a SolrCloud collection being in zookeeper >> and part of it on the disk in the core.properties files, it causes >> serious problems to try and use that API in cloud mode. >> >> Don't do it. Use the Collections API to make modifications to your >> indexes. >> >> Looks like we made it explicitly not supported at some point in 8.x, and >> I can tell you that is a decision that will NOT be reversed. We've seen >> too many people break a working SolrCloud install completely by using >> the CoreAdmin API to make changes. >> >> If you are absolutely certain that the change you are wanting to make >> will not break the collection (and I am pretty sure that renaming a core >> would break something) then you can manually modify the core.properties >> file and restart Solr. You might also need to update the collection >> information in zookeeper, which is why CoreAdmin has been disabled in >> cloud mode. >> >> Thanks, >> Shawn >> >> _______________________ Eric Pugh | Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | http://www.opensourceconnections.com <http://www.opensourceconnections.com/> | My Free/Busy <http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed <https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of whether attachments are marked as such.
