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Posted to commits@lucene.apache.org by ds...@apache.org on 2019/12/15 20:55:50 UTC

[lucene-solr] 01/01: SOLR-14072: Deprecate Blob API and runtimeLib

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dsmiley pushed a commit to branch solr-14072-deprecateBlobRuntimeLib
in repository https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene-solr.git

commit e94ab311838a96bc721a509e270f5fa667b970a1
Author: David Smiley <ds...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Dec 15 15:55:29 2019 -0500

    SOLR-14072: Deprecate Blob API and runtimeLib
---
 solr/CHANGES.txt                                                    | 4 ++++
 .../solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 14a17a6..02872fe 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ Upgrade Notes
 
 * SOLR-14065: VelocityResponseWriter has been deprecated and may be removed in a future version.
 
+* SOLR-14072: The "Blob Store" API and "runtimeLib" plugin mechanism that uses it is now considered deprecated.  The
+  replacement to it is the "Package Manager" system, which includes a "File Store".  These are experimental currently
+  but will grow/stabalize/mature.
+
 New Features
 ---------------------
 * SOLR-13821: A Package store to store and load package artifacts (noble, Ishan Chattopadhyaya)
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc
index 95756f7..bafc6e6 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
 
 In SolrCloud mode, custom plugins need to be shared across all nodes of the cluster.
 
+.Deprecated
+[IMPORTANT]
+====
+The functionality here is a subset of the <<package-manager.adoc#package-manager,Package Management>> system.  It will no longer be supported in Solr 9.
+====
+
 When running Solr in SolrCloud mode and you want to use custom code (such as custom analyzers, tokenizers, query parsers, and other plugins), it can be cumbersome to add jars to the classpath on all nodes in your cluster. Using the <<blob-store-api.adoc#blob-store-api,Blob Store API>> and special commands with the <<config-api.adoc#config-api,Config API>>, you can upload jars to a special system-level collection and dynamically load plugins from them at runtime without needing to restart [...]
 
 .This Feature is Disabled By Default