Nice, valid xml. But If I have an error (for example, <commit></comit>) I
get an HTML page back.
In 1.2, if you map /update to the XmlUpdateHandler in solrconfig.xml,
errors are returned with an HTTP status error (ie, something != 200) +
message. Your servlet runner (Jetty, Tomcat, etc) will format this as HTML.
This tends to confuse the client software.
Depends how the client is written ;)
The other option is to check the HTTP status on response. It is nice to
get a 400 when the input is wrong, a 401 if you are unauthorized to do
something, a 500 is something went wrong on the server.
Is there a way to get a return like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">1</int><exception>blah, blah,
blah</exeption><int name="QTime">0</int></lst>
</response>
Yes, you can go back to solr 1.1 style response by removing the mapping
for /update in solrconfig.xml
Check the last paragraph in "Upgrading from Solr 1.1"
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/tags/release-1.2.0/CHANGES.txt
I've actually written my own handler, but since XmlUpdateHandler does the
same thing, I thought it would make a simple example.
Hymm, for your own handler... you could catch your own exceptions and
put them in the response. It was a design decision to only have
response code 200 for valid responses and something != 200 for error cases.
ryan
