We should remove the post tool Altogether. Curl is good enough and recommended.
On Thu, 29 Apr, 2021, 2:15 am Gus Heck, <[email protected]> wrote: > I've generally been of the impression/opinion that the Post Tool is really > just a convenience for folks testing out solr to see what it can do, and > not really meant as a production ingestion solution. > > A little while back I had a client that had a third party tool that > "integrated with solr" by invoking post.jar on documents with a script to > loop through all the files in a directory and post them (the third party > software's direct example of how to integrate, not the client's idea at > all). Needless to say this caused difficulties with the gigabytes of data > the third party tool had stored in many directories. Of course I don't > know, but I'd guess that someone with little experience was tasked with the > integration with solr at the third party software company and they followed > some examples... then turned them into an "integration" blissfully unaware > of the limitations of what they had done. > > I just re-read the ref guide page on post tool > <https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_8/post-tool.html>, and there's nothing > there to indicate to the reader that this might not be a good production > level solution. Also I notice a couple of recent Jira issues regarding > handling of corner cases of strange (broken) behavior or content in a web > site's response, giving the impression that that user (who reported both > issues) might be treading a path that will stretch the bounds of what the > post tool can/should be relied upon for. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15381 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15370 > > How do folks feel about adding a warning or info box at the top of post > tool docs indicating that it is not meant as a production solution, only as > a quick way to test out documents. We might also say something more > concrete like "virtually any use for a corpus containing over a few > thousand documents is a bad idea"? ... or something like that, suggestions > welcome... > > If folks agree then it seems that these two issues are likely to be > WONTFIX. > > -Gus > > -- > http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) > http://www.the111shift.com (play) >
