Thanks Erick! state.json exists for each collection in the "tree" view of admin UI. So, that format is set to 2. I will call the CLUSTERPROP collections API too and set legacyCloud=false whenever I create a collection.
Thanks On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > clusterstate.json will exist, it just should be empty if you're using > state format 2. > > Note: if you have "state.json" files under each collections in ZK (see > the "tree" view in the admin UI), then you _are_ in the format 2 > world. However, for Solr 5.x, there'a an obscure property > "legacyCloud" that, if true will allow orphan replicas to reconstruct > themselves in clusterstate.json even if the format is 2. The condition > is that you have orphan replicas out there (where you've deleted the > collection but for some reason were unable to delete the replica, say > the Solr node hosting some replicas was down and you restarted it). > When Solr starts up, this orphan reconstructs itself in > clusterstate.json, where it's ignored. > > So you should set legacyCloud=false using the CLUSTERPROP (IIRC) > collections API call. You can also just delete the _data_ from > clusterstate.json. ASSUMING you're in format 2. > > If you're really in format 1, then see MIGRATESTATEFORMAT here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collections+API# > CollectionsAPI-MIGRATESTATEFORMAT:MigrateClusterState > > Best, > Erick > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Manohar Sripada <manohar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > After deleting a collection through Collection API, the data is not > getting > > deleted from clusterstate.json. Based on this discussion > > <http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/create-collection- > gets-stuck-on-node-restart-td4311994.html>, > > it seems clusterstate.json shouldn't be there for Solr 5.x (I am using > > 5.2.1). It also mentions that stateFormat should be set to 2. > > > > How to set stateFormat to 2 while calling the Collection API? Can I > default > > it to 2 during the setup itself so that I dont need to set it up for each > > and every collection creation? > > > > Thanks in Advance! >
