[SOLR-204] Let solrconfig.xml configure the SolrDispatchFilter to handle /select

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2
• Assignee: Ryan McKinley
• Reporter: Ryan McKinley
• Created: 05/Apr/07 21:40
• Updated: 10/May/13 10:39
• Resolved: 29/Apr/07 20:55

Description

The major reason to make everythign use the SolrDispatchFilter is that we would have consistent error handling. Currently,

SolrServlet spits back errors using:
PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
writer.write(msg);

and the SolrDispatchFilter spits them back using:
res.sendError( code, ex.getMessage() );

Using "sendError" lets the servlet container format the code so it shows up ok in a browser. Without it, you may have to view source to see the error.

Aditionaly, SolrDispatchFilter is more decerning about including stack trace. It only includes a stack trace of 500 or an unknown response code.

Eventually, the error should probably be formatted in the requested format - SOLR-141.