: How does one do this? UpdateHandler doesn't override the init method : like SearchHandler.
UpdateHandler isn't Request Handler, it's a differnet beast entirely (that wasn't as well thought out) Looking at SolreCore it looks like nothing was ever done to make it support init options, but the base classes constructor takes in the SolrCore, and existing instances use it to directly access the SolrConfig to get what they want. this doesn't seem wise moving forward -- we should probably change it to have more well defined init semantics -- but it's what's being done now. -Hoss
