There was a question in the #solr IRC channel about creating a custom
document router to assign documents to shards based on geolocation data.
Looking into this, I think I see a roadblock or two standing in the way
of users creating custom router implementations.
The "routerMap" field in the DocRouter class is private, and its
contents are not dynamically created. It appears that only specific
names (null, plain, implicit, compositeId) are added to the map.
I'm thinking that if we make routerMap protected (or create protected
access methods), and put "static { }" code blocks in each implementation
that add themselves to the parent routerMap, it will be much easier for
a user to create their own implementation and have it automatically
available to use in a CREATE action.
Is this worth an issue in Jira?
Thanks,
Shawn
