I believe the issue is that under the covers this feature is using the "topic" streaming expressions which it was just reported doesn't work with aliases. This is something that will get fixed, but for the current release there isn't a workaround for this issue.
Joel Bernstein http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/ On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:25 AM Bjarke Buur Mortensen <morten...@eluence.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > I seem to be unable to get REINDEXCOLLECTION to work on a collection alias > (running Solr 8.2.0). The documentation seems to state that that should be > possible: > > https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_2/collection-management.html#reindexcollection > "name > Source collection name, may be an alias. This parameter is required." > > If I run on my alias (qa_supplier_products): > curl " > > http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=REINDEXCOLLECTION&name=qa_supplier_products&numShards=1&cmd=start > I get an error: > "org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Unable to copy documents from > qa_supplier_products to .rx_qa_supplier_products_6: > {\"result-set\":{\"docs\":[\n > {\"DaemonOp\":\"Deamon:.rx_qa_supplier_products_6 started on > .rx_qa_supplier_products_0_shard1_replica_n1\" > > If I instead point to the underlying collection, everything works fine. Now > I have an alias pointing to an alias, which works, but ideally I would like > to just have my main alias point to the newly reindexed collection. > > Can anybody help me out here? > > Thanks, > /Bjarke >
