Thanks for the reply Shawn. Was this a recent change ? As per the ticket it was fixed in 6.0. Is this change(no hyphens as starting of name ) applicable to all 6x versions. Thanks
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 6:25 PM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > >> On 3/14/2018 6:20 PM, Jay Potharaju wrote: >> I am creating a new collection in solr 6.6.3 and it wont allow me create a >> shard with hyphen. This ticket( >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8725) was closed earlier. But it >> is not working for me in 6.6.3. >> Upgrading from 5.3 to 6.6.3. > > I can get 6.6.3 to create cores/collections with a hyphen in the name -- > unless the hyphen is the first character. > > Names with hyphens as the first character are not allowed. This is an > example of a name that is likely to not work properly with all Solr > features. It is extremely unlikely that this rule will be changed. > > I can see from previous email you've sent to the list that you have > asked about SolrCloud, so I'm betting you're running in cloud mode. > > If you were in standalone mode, then I would say that you can probably > override this behavior by creating the index with an allowed name, > stopping Solr, renaming directories, editing core.properties files, and > starting Solr back up ... but if you're in cloud mode, the names are > also in ZooKeeper. There are no easy tools that I know of for editing > the ZK database. > > You are free to change the source code to remove the restrictions that > have been added ... but those restrictions were put in place for good > reason. Even if you manage to create an index with a name that's > currently not allowed, that name might have problems with at least one > Solr feature. > > Thanks, > Shawn >
