I should also mention that Solr Cell makes use of the multipart form's
separator name. This functionality seems to be unavailable through the
URL. We have a number of clients who rely on this.
Karl
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:15 AM Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With the release of 7.4, several things changed inside Solrj. One
> critical thing that changed was that it now seems to be impossible to send
> POST requests with multipart form encoding. This functionality is critical
> to ManifoldCF since the metadata it sends to Solr regularly exceeds URL
> length. Here's a snippet of (modified) code from HttpSolrClient:
>
> >>>>>>
> if(contentWriter != null) {
> String fullQueryUrl = url + toQueryString(wparams, false);
> HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase postOrPut = SolrRequest.METHOD.POST
> == request.getMethod() ?
> new HttpPost(fullQueryUrl) : new HttpPut(fullQueryUrl);
> System.out.println("Content type is
> "+contentWriter.getContentType());
> postOrPut.addHeader("Content-Type",
> contentWriter.getContentType());
> postOrPut.setEntity(new BasicHttpEntity(){
> @Override
> public boolean isStreaming() {
> return true;
> }
>
> @Override
> public void writeTo(OutputStream outstream) throws IOException {
> contentWriter.write(outstream);
> }
> });
> return postOrPut;
> <<<<<<
>
> This takes over all transmissions of POST requests, in practice, and
> transmits them as application/octet-stream, with metadata on the URL.
> There's no way to override this; while I can instead used the multipart
> stuff consistently, when I do so the request to delete a document fails,
> with this SolrJ stack trace:
>
> >>>>>>
> FATAL 2018-09-21T09:54:58,362 (Document delete thread '4') - Error tossed:
> This Should not happen
> java.lang.RuntimeException: This Should not happen
> at
> org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.BinaryRequestWriter.getContentStreams(BinaryRequestWriter.java:67)
> ~[solr-solrj-7.4.0.jar:7.4.0 9060ac689c270b02143f375de0348b7f626adebc -
> jpountz - 2018-06-18 16:55:14]
> at
> org.apache.manifoldcf.agents.output.solr.ModifiedHttpSolrClient.createMethod(ModifiedHttpSolrClient.java:148)
> ~[classes/:?]
> at
> org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClient.request(HttpSolrClient.java:253)
> ~[solr-solrj-7.4.0.jar:7.4.0 9060ac689c270b02143f375de0348b7f626adebc -
> jpountz - 2018-06-18 16:55:14]
> at
> org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClient.request(HttpSolrClient.java:244)
> ~[solr-solrj-7.4.0.jar:7.4.0 9060ac689c270b02143f375de0348b7f626adebc -
> jpountz - 2018-06-18 16:55:14]
> at
> org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrRequest.process(SolrRequest.java:194)
> ~[solr-solrj-7.4.0.jar:7.4.0 9060ac689c270b02143f375de0348b7f626adebc -
> jpountz - 2018-06-18 16:55:14]
> at
> org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrRequest.process(SolrRequest.java:211)
> ~[solr-solrj-7.4.0.jar:7.4.0 9060ac689c270b02143f375de0348b7f626adebc -
> jpountz - 2018-06-18 16:55:14]
> at
> org.apache.manifoldcf.agents.output.solr.HttpPoster$DeleteThread.run(HttpPoster.java:1364)
> ~[classes/:?]
> <<<<<<
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Karl
>
>
