: One obvious thing that I found missing was the ability to create a : core. Suppose I want to programmatically create a new core. Right now : the only way is to create a solr home directory structure, place the : configuration files (multicore.xml, solrconfig.xml, schema.xml) and : then call MultiCore.load method. Writing custom code to do this on an : embedded (local) solr instance is probably ok but it would be great if : this feature is inside solr itself. A HTTP based API for doing this : would also be required. Any thoughts?
Ryan and Henri are in the process of creating HTTP APIs for dynamicly loading and unloading cores -- but you are still responsible for getting the config files where they need to be ... i would strongly argue against Solr attempting to create an HTTP based API for "creating" or "uploading" config files -- this is what things like WebDAV are for, no need for us to reinvent the wheel. If people want to be able to remotely create/modify solr configurating files, then i'm sure there are a lot of WebDAV type java apps out there that could be run from the same servlet container as Solr. -Hoss
