Your right - that does seem to be a new limitation. Could you create a JIRA issue for it?
It would be fairly simple to add another reload method that also took the name of a new solrconfig/schema file. - Mark On May 23, 2013, at 4:11 PM, André Widhani <andre.widh...@digicol.de> wrote: > Mark, Alan, > > thanks for explaining and updating the wiki. > > When reloading the core using action=CREATE with Solr 4.1 I could specify the > path to schema and config. In fact I used this to reconfigure the core to use > a specific one of two prepared config files depending on some external index > state (instead of making changes to one and the same config file). > > action=RELOAD does not understand the corresponding request parameters > "schema" and "config" (which is why I used CREATE, not RELOAD in the first > place). So the functionality to switch to a different config file for an > existing core is no longer there, I guess? > > Thanks, > André > > ________________________________________ > Von: Alan Woodward [a...@flax.co.uk] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013 18:43 > An: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Betreff: Re: Core admin action "CREATE" fails for existing core > > Thanks! > > Alan Woodward > www.flax.co.uk > > > On 23 May 2013, at 17:38, Steve Rowe wrote: > >> Alan, I've added AlanWoodward to the Solr AdminGroup page. >> >> On May 23, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Alan Woodward <a...@flax.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> I think the wiki needs to be updated to reflect this? >>> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CoreAdmin >>> >>> If somebody adds me as an editor (AlanWoodward), I'll do it. >>> >>> Alan Woodward >>> www.flax.co.uk >>> >>> >>> On 23 May 2013, at 16:43, Mark Miller wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, this did change - it's actually a protection for a previous change >>>> though. >>>> >>>> There was a time when you did a core reload by just making a new core with >>>> the same name and closing the old core - that is no longer really >>>> supported though - the proper way to do this is to use SolrCore#reload, >>>> and that has been the case for all of 4.x release if I remember right. I >>>> supported making this change to force people who might still be doing what >>>> is likely quite a buggy operation to switch to the correct code. >>>> >>>> Sorry about the inconvenience. >>>> >>>> - Mark >>>> >>>> On May 23, 2013, at 10:45 AM, André Widhani <andre.widh...@digicol.de> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> It seems to me that the behavior of the Core admin action "CREATE" has >>>>> changed when going from Solr 4.1 to 4.3. >>>>> >>>>> With 4.1, I could re-configure an existing core (changing path/name to >>>>> solrconfig.xml for example). In 4.3, I get an error message: >>>>> >>>>> SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error CREATEing SolrCore >>>>> 'core-tex69b6iom1djrbzmlmg83-index2': Core with name >>>>> 'core-tex69b6iom1djrbzmlmg83-index2' already exists. >>>>> >>>>> Is this change intended? >>>>> >>>>> André >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
