[SOLR-3530] better error messages / Content-Type validation in solrJ

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.6, 6.0
• Assignee: Mark Miller
• Reporter: Chris M. Hostetter
• Created: 09/Jun/12 00:28
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:50
• Resolved: 30/Sep/13 14:02

Description

spin off from SOLR-3258, it would be helpful if SolrJ, when encountering Exceptions from the ResponseParser (or perhaps before ever even handing data to the ResponseParser) did some validation of the Content-Type returned by the remote server to give better error messages in cases where miss configuration has the wrong matchup between ResponseParser and mime-type (or worse: an HTML page being returned by a non-solr server)

Issue Links

• breaks: SOLR-5532 SolrJ Content-Type validation is too strict for some webcontainers / proxies, breaks on equivilent content types
• is related to: SOLR-3258 Ping query caused exception..Invalid version (expected 2, but 60) or the data in not in 'javabin' format
• relates to: SOLR-5291 Solrj does not propagate the root cause to the user for many errors.