[SOLR-5591] SolrJ should use multipart forms for Solr Cloud

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.5.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Karl Wright
• Created: 30/Dec/13 13:27
• Updated: 30/Dec/13 13:58

Description

Once SOLR-5590 is fixed, and the proper content-encoding is specified in SolrJ's HttpSolrServer class, SolrJ should completely support multipart forms once more. When that is done, SolrCloud should also use multipart forms, since otherwise the http GET/POST headers may exceed web server limits. See CONNECTORS-839 for a description of the issue. (Once again, the ManifoldCF project overrode SolrJ classes to make the right thing happen, but we'd like to remove our hack eventually.)

Issue Links

• depends upon: SOLR-5590 SolrJ is still on httpcomponents/httpclient version 4.2.x, which has some problems
• is depended upon by: CONNECTORS-674 Send metadata to Solr using multipart request