[SOLR-7172] addreplica API fails with incorrect error msg "cannot create collection"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.10.3, 5.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.3, 6.0
• Component/s: SolrCloud
• Assignee: Erick Erickson
• Reporter: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
• Created: 27/Feb/15 04:37
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 17:23
• Resolved: 11/Jul/15 05:11

Description

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create 1 node solr cloud cluster
2. Create collection 'test' with numShards=1&replicationFactor=1&maxShardsPerNode=1
3. Call addreplica API:

   http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=addreplica&collection=test&shard=shard1&wt=json 
   

API fails with the following response:

{
responseHeader: {
status: 400,
QTime: 9
},
Operation ADDREPLICA caused exception:: "org.apache.solr.common.SolrException:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Cannot create collection test. No live Solr-instances",
exception: {
msg: "Cannot create collection test. No live Solr-instances",
rspCode: 400
},
error: {
msg: "Cannot create collection test. No live Solr-instances",
code: 400
}
}