On 6/5/2015 1:46 AM, Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo wrote: > That's why we are trying to get the user to change something else instead > of the collection name. The collection alias sounds like a good option. > > Is there a way to list out all the alias names, or the only way is to > reference it at aliases.json file under the Cloud section in the Admin UI? > > As when I use the /admin/collections?action=LIST, it list the collection > names only, and I'm using this to populate the collections on the UI > dynamically. If the user is using the alias name, there's no need for them > to know the actual collection name. So I'm trying to find a way is there a > way to list out all the alias name.
This is what the admin UI uses when it retrieves aliases.json to show it to you within the Cloud->Tree section: http://server:port/solr/zookeeper?detail=true&path=%2Faliases.json If you remove detail=true from that URL, there will be a lot less JSON to parse: http://server:port/solr/zookeeper?path=%2Faliases.json You'll need to figure out how to send that request with whatever Solr or HTTP client you are using, and then you will probably need to parse the JSON to get the information. If your client is SolrJ, it might offer an easier way to grab that information ... but I'm not familiar enough with the code to say for sure. Thanks, Shawn
