An update:
Another idea comes from Erick Hatcher; sharing it for the benefit of anyone
who's interested in the topic:
<erikhatcher> maybe you can make a custom request handler that toggles
which is the default chain?
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Dmitry Kan <solrexp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Mike,
>
> we have discussed something similar with steffkes on IRC today, where I
> said: "some programmatic convenience would be great of course. But I
> could in principle imagine having two versions of solrconfig.xml and
> swapping them followed by a core reload. It just sounds a bit scary to me.
> "
>
> But now, after pondering a bit more over it, I start to get inclined
> towards "fiddling with sending dummy documents with certain fields that
> will tell the update component to either call another update component or
> proceed normally"
>
> another = custom updater
> normally = default updater
>
> More ideas are of course welcome!
>
> Dmitry
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Michael Sokolov <
> msoko...@safaribooksonline.com> wrote:
>
>> Just to get the obvious sledgehammer solution out of the way - upload a
>> new, edited solrconfig.xml with the default changed, and reload the core.
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/3/14 6:28 AM, Dmitry Kan wrote:
>>
>>> Hello solr fellows,
>>>
>>> I'm working on a project that involves using two update chains. One
>>> default
>>> chain is used most of the time and another one custom is used
>>> sporadically.
>>>
>>> The default update chain is called automatically without action needed
>>> (well, that's why it is default).
>>>
>>> The custom pipeline can be switched on using update.chain http parameter,
>>> like so:
>>>
>>> [code]
>>> UpdateRequest updateRequest = new UpdateRequest();
>>> updateRequest.setCommitWithin(10000);
>>> updateRequest.setParam("update.chain", "customupdatechain");
>>> updateRequest.add(solrDoc);
>>> updateRequest.process(solrServer);
>>> [/code]
>>>
>>> Now I have a new requirement: be able to install the custom chain as the
>>> default update chain such that any client that is sending data in will
>>> get
>>> it processed via the custom chain and not the default chain. And this
>>> should happen seamlessly to the client, i.e. no parameter change needed.
>>>
>>> Is this possible with the current state of the Solr core / collection api
>>> or some other method?
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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