: So I'm creating a request handler plugin where I want to fetch some values : from the schema. I make it SchemaAware but the inform method is never : called. I assume that there is some way of registering the instance as : aware (and I have seen and used this before, although that information : escapes me at this point). I can't find any documentation on this in
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrPlugins#Building_Plugins Because of lifecycle complexities, not all plugins can be "ResourceLoaderAware" or "SolrCoreAware". If you want to initialize your RequestHandler with information from the ResourceLoader, just make it SolrCoreAware and then in your inform(SolrCore core) method you can call core.getResourceLoader(). -Hoss