Thank you - yes that was my question. I should have stated that it was for SolrCloud and hence a managed schema. Could I bring down the shards, edit the managed schema on zookeeper, fire the shards back up and re-index?
-Joe On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > It isn't supported by an exiting REST API (if that was your question) but > you can always edit the schema manually (if it isn't managed), upload the > new schema and reload the collections (or cores in case of non-SolrCloud > mode). > > Do remember that changing the field type might require you to reindex your > data. > > There's an open JIRA for that one and I think someone would get to it > sometime in the reasonably near future. > JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5289 > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Joseph Obernberger < > joseph.obernber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In addition to adding new fields to the schema, is there a way to modify > an > > existing field? If I created a field called userID as a long, but > decided > > later that it should be a string? > > Thank you! > > > > -Joe > > > > > > -- > > Anshum Gupta > http://www.anshumgupta.net >
