[SOLR-7895] Administrative UI Lacks Obvious "Delete Core Contents" Button

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 5.2.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aaron Greenspan
• Created: 07/Aug/15 04:37
• Updated: 07/Aug/15 06:18

Description

When Solr screws up, which is practically on a daily basis, I often want to delete the contents of a core without deleting its structure. Instead of clicking on a button and perhaps an "Are you sure?" prompt, I have to remember this incredibly unwieldy and dangerous-to-bookmark URL:

http://[server]:8983/solr/[core name]/update?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3Eid:*%3C/query%3E%3C/delete%3E&commit=true

To say that this is not user-friendly is a gross understatement. If there is a better way or an obvious easy way, I have not found it.