Hi Alexandre, You can you the CLUSTERSTATUS Collections API ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collections+API#CollectionsAPI-api18) to get a list of live nodes.
-Anshum On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:16 AM Alexandre Drouin < alexandre.dro...@orckestra.com> wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the best/easiest way to create a collection (only one shard) > using the Collection API and have a replica created on all live nodes? > > Using the 'create collection' API, I can use the 'replicationFactor' > parameter and specify the number of replica I want for my collection. So > if I have 3 lives nodes I can say 'replicationFactor=3' and my collection > will have a replica on all lives nodes. However I do not want to > 'hardcode' my number of live nodes for obvious reasons, so because of that > I have the following questions: > > 1) Is there a way to create a collection (only one shard) and having a > replica of the shard on all live nodes? > > 2) Assuming #1 is not possible, is it possible to have the list of live > nodes ? If I can have the list of live nodes I could detect the number > required for the replicationFactor parameter. > > Thanks > > Alexandre Drouin >
