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  2. SOLR-4910

solr.xml persistence is completely broken

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Blocker
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 4.4, 6.0
    • 4.4, 6.0
    • None
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    Description

      I'm working on SOLR-4862 (persisting a created core doesn't preserve some values) and at least compared to 4.3 code, persisting to solr.xml is completely broken.

      I learned to hate persistence while working on SOLR-4196 & etc. and I'm glad it's going away. I frequently got lost in implicit properties (they're easy to persist and shouldn't be), what should/shouldn't be persisted (e.g. the translated ${var:default} or the original), and it was a monster, so don't think I'm nostalgic for the historical behavior.

      Before I dive back in I want to get some idea whether or not the current behavior was intentional or not, I don't want to go back into that junk only to undo someone else's work.

      Creating a new core (collection2 in my example) with persistence turned on in solr.xml for instance changes the original definition for collection1 (stock 4.x as of tonight) from this:

      <core name="collection1" instanceDir="collection1" shard="${shard:}" collection="${collection:collection1}" config="${solrconfig:solrconfig.xml}" schema="${schema:schema.xml}"
      coreNodeName="${coreNodeName:}"/>
      to this:

      <core loadOnStartup="true" shard="${shard:}" instanceDir="collection1/" transient="false" name="collection1" dataDir="data/" collection="${collection:collection1}">
      <property name="name" value="collection1"/>
      <property name="config" value="solrconfig.xml"/>
      <property name="solr.core.instanceDir" value="solr/collection1/"/>
      <property name="transient" value="false"/>
      <property name="schema" value="schema.xml"/>
      <property name="loadOnStartup" value="true"/>
      <property name="solr.core.schemaName" value="schema.xml"/>
      <property name="solr.core.name" value="collection1"/>
      <property name="solr.core.dataDir" value="data/"/>
      <property name="instanceDir" value="collection1/"/>
      <property name="solr.core.configName" value="solrconfig.xml"/>
      </core>

      So, there are two questions:
      1> what is correct for 4.x?
      2> do we care at all about 5.x?

      As much as I hate to say it, I think that we need to go back to the 4.3 behavior. It might be as simple as not persisting in the <property> tags anything already in the original definition. Not quite sure what to put where in the newly-created core though, I suspect that the compact <core + attribs> would be best (assuming there's no <property> tag already in the definition. I really hate the mix of attributes on the <core> tag and <property> tags, wish we had one or the other....

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        1. SOLR-4910.patch
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          Alan Woodward
        2. SOLR-4910.patch
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          Erick Erickson
        3. SOLR-4910.patch
          36 kB
          Erick Erickson
        4. SOLR-4910.patch
          44 kB
          Erick Erickson
        5. SOLR-4910.patch
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          Erick Erickson

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