Reloading solrconfig.xml

[Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

What's the best way to dynamically change solrconfig.xml and have the changes take effect?
It looks like one could just regenerate the file and call SolrConfig.initConfig(String file).
Is that the proper/best way to do it?

Thanks,
Otis

Re: Reloading solrconfig.xml

[Yonik Seeley <yo...@apache.org>]

On 9/21/06, Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks, that's actually simpler and it will work for me.
> Since I'm thinking of only changing mergeFactor and friends on the fly, I suppose I'd only need to modify Master's solrconfig.xml.

Is this for testing or something?

I could think of usecases where it might make sense to somehow allow
changing mergeFactor in add requests (complete index builds vs
incremental adds, etc).


-Yonik

Re: Reloading solrconfig.xml

[Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com>]

Thanks, that's actually simpler and it will work for me.
Since I'm thinking of only changing mergeFactor and friends on the fly, I suppose I'd only need to modify Master's solrconfig.xml.

Otis

----- Original Message ----
From: Yonik Seeley <yo...@apache.org>
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:08:58 PM
Subject: Re: Reloading solrconfig.xml

On 9/21/06, Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What's the best way to dynamically change solrconfig.xml and have the changes take effect?

Everything would need to be designed for that, and it's currently not.

You might be able to reload the config, but all the classes that
looked at the config and configured themselves would need to be

At CNET, we are always in a load-balanced environment for scalability
and HA.  In that environment, you simply change the config and bounce
the server, letting the remaining servers handle requests.

-Yonik

Re: Reloading solrconfig.xml

[Yonik Seeley <yo...@apache.org>]

On 9/21/06, Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What's the best way to dynamically change solrconfig.xml and have the changes take effect?

Everything would need to be designed for that, and it's currently not.

You might be able to reload the config, but all the classes that
looked at the config and configured themselves would need to be

At CNET, we are always in a load-balanced environment for scalability
and HA.  In that environment, you simply change the config and bounce
the server, letting the remaining servers handle requests.

-Yonik