Hey all,
We're trying to use SOLR for our document store and are facing some issues
with the Realtime Get api. Basically, we're doing an api call from multiple
endpoint to retrieve configuration data. The document that we are
retrieving does not change at all but sometimes the API returns a null
document ({doc:null}). I'd say 99.99% of the time we can retrieve the
document fine but once in a blue moon we get the null document. The problem
is that for us, if SOLR returns null, that means that the document does not
exist but because this is a document that should be there it causes all
sort of problems in our system.
The API I call is the following:
http://{server_ip}/solr/config/get?id={id}&wt=json&fl=_source_
As far as I understand reading the documentation, the Realtime Get API
should get me the document no matter what. Even if the document is not yet
committed to the index.
I see no errors whatsoever in the SOLR logs that could help me with this
problem. in fact there are no error at all.
As for our setup, because we're still in testing phase, we only have two
SOLR instances running on the same box in cloud mode with replication=1
which means that the core that we run the Realtime Get on is only present
in one of the two instances. Our script randomly chooses which instances it
does the query on but as far as I understand, in cloud mode the API call
should be dispatched automatically to the right instance.
Am I missing anything here? Is it possible that there is a race condition
in the Realtime Get API that could return null data even if the document
exist?
Thanks,
Steve
