Addition of new field to Solr schema.xml not getting reflected properly

[ahmed baseet <ah...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,
I'm trying to add a new field to Solr, so I stopped the tomcat[I'm working
on Windows] using the "Configure Tomcat" menu of Tomcat, then added the
following field
<field name="pageContent" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
After restarting Tomcat, I couldn't see the changes, so I did the restart
couple of times, and then the schema showed me the changes. Now I tried to
change the type to
"text" from the current "string". I did that and restarted tomcat many times
but the changes are still not getting reflected. I've used Solr1.2 earlier
on linux, and every time I just had to touch the web.xml in webapp directory
thereby forcing tomcat to restart itself for changes in schema.xml to take
effect, but in windows I'm not able to figure out whats the issue. Is there
anything wrong, I'm I supposed to restart tomcat in some other way instead
of using the "Configure tomcat" menu. Has anyone faced similar issues with
solr1.3 on windows? Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ahmed.

Re: Addition of new field to Solr schema.xml not getting reflected properly

[ahmed baseet <ah...@gmail.com>]

I added some new documents,  and for these docs I can use the new field,
right? Though to reflect the changes for all docs I need to delete the old
index and build a new one.
As I mentioned earlier after a couple of restarts its worked. Still don't
know whats the issue. :-)

Thanks,
Ahmed.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>wrote:

> Did you reindex your documents after making changes and restarting?  The
> types of changes you're making require reindexing.
>
>        Erik
>
>
> On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:13 AM, ahmed baseet wrote:
>
>  Hi All,
>> I'm trying to add a new field to Solr, so I stopped the tomcat[I'm working
>> on Windows] using the "Configure Tomcat" menu of Tomcat, then added the
>> following field
>> <field name="pageContent" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
>> After restarting Tomcat, I couldn't see the changes, so I did the restart
>> couple of times, and then the schema showed me the changes. Now I tried to
>> change the type to
>> "text" from the current "string". I did that and restarted tomcat many
>> times
>> but the changes are still not getting reflected. I've used Solr1.2 earlier
>> on linux, and every time I just had to touch the web.xml in webapp
>> directory
>> thereby forcing tomcat to restart itself for changes in schema.xml to take
>> effect, but in windows I'm not able to figure out whats the issue. Is
>> there
>> anything wrong, I'm I supposed to restart tomcat in some other way instead
>> of using the "Configure tomcat" menu. Has anyone faced similar issues with
>> solr1.3 on windows? Any suggestion would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ahmed.
>>
>
>

Re: Addition of new field to Solr schema.xml not getting reflected properly

[Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>]

Did you reindex your documents after making changes and restarting?   
The types of changes you're making require reindexing.

	Erik

On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:13 AM, ahmed baseet wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm trying to add a new field to Solr, so I stopped the tomcat[I'm  
> working
> on Windows] using the "Configure Tomcat" menu of Tomcat, then added  
> the
> following field
> <field name="pageContent" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
> After restarting Tomcat, I couldn't see the changes, so I did the  
> restart
> couple of times, and then the schema showed me the changes. Now I  
> tried to
> change the type to
> "text" from the current "string". I did that and restarted tomcat  
> many times
> but the changes are still not getting reflected. I've used Solr1.2  
> earlier
> on linux, and every time I just had to touch the web.xml in webapp  
> directory
> thereby forcing tomcat to restart itself for changes in schema.xml  
> to take
> effect, but in windows I'm not able to figure out whats the issue.  
> Is there
> anything wrong, I'm I supposed to restart tomcat in some other way  
> instead
> of using the "Configure tomcat" menu. Has anyone faced similar  
> issues with
> solr1.3 on windows? Any suggestion would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ahmed.