For the CREATE call, I'm doing it manually per the instructions here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud
Here's the exact URL I'm using: http://asu-solr-cloud.elasticbeanstalk.com/admin/collections?action=CREATE&name=directory&numShards=2&replicationFactor=2&maxShardsPerNode=2 I'm testing out your patch now, and I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for all the help! -Al On Jun 18, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > OK, I think I see what's happening. If you do > NOT specify an instanceDir on the create > (and I'm doing this via the core admin > interface, not SolrJ) then the default is > used, but not persisted. If you _do_ > specify the instance dir, it will be persisted. > > I've put up another quick patch (tested > only in my test case, running full suite > now). Can you give it a whirl? You'll have > to apply the patch over top of the current > 4x, een though the patch is for trunk it > applied to 4x cleanly for me and the tests ran. > > Thanks, > Erick > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> OK, I put up a very preliminary patch attached to the bug >> if you want to try it out that addresses the extra junk being >> put in the <core> tag. Doesn't address the instanceDir issue >> since I haven't reproduced it yet. >> >> Erick >> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Whoa! What's this junk? >>> qt="/admin/cores" wt="javabin" version="2 >>> >>> That shouldn't be being preserved, and the instancedir should be! >>> >>> So I'm guessing you're using SolrJ to create the core, but I just >>> reproduced the problem (at least the 'wt="json" ') bit from the >>> browser and even from one of my internal tests when I added >>> extra parameters. >>> >>> That said, instanceDir is being preserved in my test, so I'm not >>> seeing everything you're seeing, could you cut/paste your >>> create code? I'll see if I can set up a test case for SolrJ to catch >>> this too. >>> >>> See SOLR-4935 >>> >>> Thanks for reporting! >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Al Wold <alw...@alwold.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Erick, >>>> I tried out your changes from the branch_4x branch. It looks good in terms >>>> of preserving the zkHost, but I'm running into an exception because it >>>> isn't persisting the instanceDir attribute on the <core> element. >>>> >>>> I've got a few other things I need to take care of, but as soon as I have >>>> time I'll dig in and see if I can figure out what's going on, and see what >>>> changed to make this not work. >>>> >>>> Here are details on what the files looked like before/after CREATE call: >>>> >>>> original solr.xml: >>>> >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >>>> <solr persistent="true" sharedLib="lib" zkHost="10.116.249.136:2181"> >>>> <!-- this 8080 might need to change in production --> >>>> <cores adminPath="/admin/cores" zkClientTimeout="20000" hostPort="8080" >>>> hostContext="/"/> >>>> </solr> >>>> >>>> here's what was produced with 4.3 branch + a quick mod to preserve zkHost: >>>> >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >>>> <solr persistent="true" zkHost="10.116.249.136:2181" sharedLib="lib"> >>>> <cores adminPath="/admin/cores" zkClientTimeout="20000" hostPort="8080" >>>> hostContext="/"> >>>> <core loadOnStartup="true" shard="shard1" >>>> instanceDir="directory_shard1_replica1/" transient="false" >>>> name="directory_shard1_replica1" collection="directory"/> >>>> <core loadOnStartup="true" shard="shard2" >>>> instanceDir="directory_shard2_replica1/" transient="false" >>>> name="directory_shard2_replica1" collection="directory"/> >>>> </cores> >>>> </solr> >>>> >>>> here's what was produced with branch_4x 4.4-SNAPSHOT: >>>> >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >>>> <solr persistent="true" zkHost="10.116.249.136:2181" sharedLib="lib"> >>>> <cores adminPath="/admin/cores" zkClientTimeout="20000" >>>> distribUpdateSoTimeout="0" distribUpdateConnTimeout="0" hostPort="8080" >>>> hostContext="/"> >>>> <core shard="shard1" numShards="2" name="directory_shard1_replica2" >>>> collection="directory" qt="/admin/cores" wt="javabin" version="2"/> >>>> <core shard="shard2" numShards="2" name="directory_shard2_replica2" >>>> collection="directory" qt="/admin/cores" wt="javabin" version="2"/> >>>> </cores> >>>> </solr> >>>> >>>> and here's the error from solr.log after restarting after the CREATE: >>>> >>>> 2013-06-17 21:37:07,083 1874 [pool-2-thread-1] ERROR >>>> org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer - null:java.lang.NullPointerException: >>>> Missing required 'instanceDir' >>>> at >>>> org.apache.solr.core.CoreDescriptor.doInit(CoreDescriptor.java:133) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.solr.core.CoreDescriptor.<init>(CoreDescriptor.java:87) >>>> at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.load(CoreContainer.java:365) >>>> at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.load(CoreContainer.java:221) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$Initializer.initialize(CoreContainer.java:190) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:124) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:277) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:258) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:382) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:103) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4638) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5294) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:895) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:871) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1099) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1621) >>>> at >>>> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) >>>> at >>>> java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) >>>> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) >>>> at >>>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) >>>> at >>>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) >>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jun 16, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: >>>> >>>>> Al: >>>>> >>>>> As it happens, I hope sometime today to put up a patch for SOLR-4910 >>>>> that should harden up many things in persisting solr.xml, I'll be sure >>>>> to include this. It's kind of a pain to create an automated test for >>>>> this, so I'll give it a whirl manually. >>>>> >>>>> As you say, most of this is going away in 5.0, but it needs to work for >>>>> 4.x. >>>>> >>>>> And when I get the patch up, if you could give it a "real world" try >>>>> it'd be great! >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Erick >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Al Wold <alw...@alwold.com> wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> I'm working on setting up a solr cloud test environment, and the target >>>>>> environment I need to put it in has multiple webapps per tomcat >>>>>> instance. With that in mind, I wanted/had to avoid putting any configs >>>>>> in system properties. I tried putting the zkHost in solr.xml, like this: >>>>>> >>>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >>>>>>> <solr persistent="true" sharedLib="lib" zkHost="10.116.249.136:2181"> >>>>>>> <!-- this 8080 might need to change in production --> >>>>>>> <cores adminPath="/admin/cores" zkClientTimeout="20000" hostPort="8080" >>>>>>> hostContext="/"/> >>>>>>> </solr> >>>>>> >>>>>> Everything works fine when I first start things up, create collections, >>>>>> upload docs, search, etc. Creating the collection, however, modifies the >>>>>> solr.xml file, and doesn't keep the zkHost setting: >>>>>> >>>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >>>>>>> <solr persistent="true" sharedLib="lib"> >>>>>>> <cores adminPath="/admin/cores" zkClientTimeout="20000" hostPort="8080" >>>>>>> hostContext="/"> >>>>>>> <core loadOnStartup="true" shard="shard2" >>>>>>> instanceDir="directory_shard2_replica1/" transient="false" >>>>>>> name="directory_shard2_replica1" collection="directory"/> >>>>>>> <core loadOnStartup="true" shard="shard1" >>>>>>> instanceDir="directory_shard1_replica1/" transient="false" >>>>>>> name="directory_shard1_replica1" collection="directory"/> >>>>>>> </cores> >>>>>>> </solr> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> With that in mind, once I restart tomcat, it no longer knows it's >>>>>> supposed to be talking to zookeeper, so it looks for local configs and >>>>>> blows up. >>>>>> >>>>>> I traced this back to the code in CoreContainer.java, in the method >>>>>> persistFile(), where it seems to contain no code to write out the zkHost >>>>>> when it updates solr.xml. I upped the logging on my solr instance to >>>>>> verify this code is executing, so I'm pretty sure it's the right spot. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is anyone else using zkHost in their solr.xml successfully? I can't see >>>>>> how it would work given this problem. >>>>>> >>>>>> Does this seem like a bug? If so, I can probably file a report and >>>>>> submit a patch. It seems like this problem may become a non-issue in >>>>>> 5.0, based on comments in the code and some of the discussion in JIRA, >>>>>> but I'm not sure how far off that is. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>>> -Al Wold >>>>>> >>>> >
