On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote:
> On 1/9/2018 2:42 AM, Robert Krüger wrote: > >> I am looking to upgrade an application that still uses version 4.6.1 to >> latest solr (7.2) but realized that support for EmbeddedSolrServer seems >> to >> have vanished with 7.0 but I could find no mention of it in the release >> notes, which strikes me as odd for such a disruptive change. Is it >> somewhere else or has it just gone silently? The class wasn't deprecated >> in >> 6.x as far as I can see. What am I missing? >> >> I have no problem updating to 6.6.2 for now to delay having to worry about >> a bigger migration but just don't want to do it, because I am missing >> something obvious. >> >> Btw. I do not want to start yet another thread about the merits of using >> an >> embedded solr server ;-). >> > > It's still there. Here's the 7.2 javadoc: > > https://lucene.apache.org/solr/7_2_0/solr-core/org/apache/ > solr/client/solrj/embedded/EmbeddedSolrServer.html Duh, thanks so much. I was looking in the solrj javadoc, not solr-core! My bad. > > > Since 5.0, it is a descendant of SolrClient, and the SolrServer abstract > class was removed in 6.0. > > Regarding whether you should use the embedded server or not: For > production usage, I would not recommend it, because redundancy is not > possible. But there are certain situations (mostly dev/testing) where it's > absolutely the right solution. > We're using it in a classic embedded situation in a desktop app where redundancy is not an issue and are super-happy with it. > > I am not expecting EmbeddedSolrServer to be removed. It is used > extensively in Solr tests and by many users in the wild. > > That is very good to know. Thanks again!
