[SOLR-1576] Provide better error reporting for clients performing updates (or other operations)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: update
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Paul R. Brown
• Created: 19/Nov/09 07:57
• Updated: 22/Dec/16 15:16

Description

It's frustrating from a client point of view to perform an update and then get back a 400 with no additional information. Would it make sense to supply an HTTP header with information about the error? I was thinking something like:

X-SOLR-ERROR-MESSAGE: unknown field 'fooBarBaz'

This would snap right into SolrDispatchFilter in sendError at line 363:

res.addHeader("X-SOLR-ERROR-MESSAGE",ex.getMessage());

Issue Links

• is part of: SOLR-141 Errors/Exceptions should be formated by ResponseWriter