Questions about Solrj indexing/updateRequest API with regard to enabling HTTP Basic Auth inside Tomcat (HTTP POST method)

[Yuan Jerry <Je...@sentry.com>]

Hi Solr User List,

I have started using Solrj (Solr and Solrj 4.1.0, and also 4.10.1) for sending indexing/update requests to Solr server that is being hosted inside Tomcat, and the security authentication HTTP BASIC auth is enabled in this Solr server web.xml.

(1) The client code looks like below:

String solrServerUrl = "http://localhost:8983/solr/core";
String userName = "solr_admin";
String password = "solr_pwd";

DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpClientUtil.setBasicAuth(client, userName, password);

HttpSolrServer solrServer = new HttpSolrServer(solrServerUrl, client);

SolrInputDocument doc = new SolrInputDocument();
doc.addField("id", "id_" + System.currentTimeMillis());
doc.addField("name", "Name_" + System.currentTimeMillis());
doc.addField("title", "Title_" + System.currentTimeMillis());

try {
       UpdateResponse updateResponse = solrServer.add(doc, 10000);
       ......
} catch (Exception ex) {
}

(2) The Solr server web.xml is configured with the following HTTP BASIC Auth configurations:

web.xml:

       <login-config>
              <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
              <realm-name>Solr</realm-name>
       </login-config>

       <security-constraint>
              <web-resource-collection>
                     <web-resource-name>Secured Solr Access</web-resource-name>
                     <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
              </web-resource-collection>
              <auth-constraint>
                     <role-name>solr_secure</role-name>
              </auth-constraint>
       </security-constraint>

(3) The Tomcat container has the following role defined for being used in the above security constraints:

tomcat-users.xml:

       <tomcat-users>
         <role rolename="solr_secure"/>
         <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
         <user username="solr_admin" password="solr_pwd" roles="solr_secure,manager-gui"/>
       </tomcat-users>

When I ran the above client code trying to add a single SolrDocument, and it always failed with the following exception:

org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException: IOException occured when talking to server at: http://localhost:8983/solr/core

Are there any users out there that have used solrj APIs to conduct indexing / storing process for solr documents into Solr server that is configured with HTTP Basic Auth like above? If so, please let me know if you have encountered similar exceptions or there could be some issues with my configurations that are shown above. Your information would be highly appreciated in advance.

Jerry Yuan


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