You could pre create a bunch of directories and base configs. Create as needed. Then use schema less API to set it up ... Or make changes in a script and reload the core..
Bill Bell Sent from mobile > On Nov 4, 2013, at 6:06 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Right, this has been an issue for a while, there's no current > way to do this. > > Someday, I'll be able to work on SOLR-4779 which should > go some toward making this work more easily. It's still not > exactly what you're looking for, but it might work. > > Of course with SolrCloud you can specify a configuration > set that is used for multiple collections. > > People are using Puppet or similar to automate this over > large numbers of nodes, but that's not entirely satisfactory > either in our case I suspect. > > FWIW, > Erick > > >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Bram Van Dam <bram.van...@intix.eu> wrote: >> >> The core admin CREATE function requires that the new instance dir and >> schema/config exist already. Is there a particular reason for this? It >> would be incredible convenient if I could create a core with a new schema >> and new config simply by calling CREATE (maybe providing the contents of >> config.xml and schema.xml as base64 encoded strings in HTTP POST or >> something?). >> >> I'm guessing this isn't currently possible? >> >> Ta, >> >> - bram >>
