: Are you looking to get access to a remote schema? You can pull schema.xml : via HTTP using a URL like:
Alternately: using the LukeRequestHandler may give you more structured access to the schema, dependso n what you are looking for. : If you're accessing the schema from inside a custom Solr component then the : IndexSchema API (which you can get to from pretty much any context you're in) : is the way to go. Specificly: you can get it from SolrIndexSearcher.getSchema(). There is a SolrIndexSearcher associated with every SolrQueryRequest. -Hoss