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Hoss Man commented on SOLR-614: ------------------------------- bq. All the changes are under the skin. There will be no changes to the configuration or public API. All the components must stick to the old configuration.So, I hope there is no need to have any confusion I'm only half certain I understand exactly what's being discussed, so take this comment with a grain of salt... Even if the code changes dictate that existing components must still use the existing config syntax (I assume because it asks for things like params.get("foo") instead of params.get("@foo") the fact remains that if a single type of plugin (ie: RequestHandler) *can* support multiple config syntaxes the potential exists for people to get very confused ... if we make this change, then someone who is already familiar with the way handlers are configured won't understand the "/replication" example Noble posted -- likewise someone new to Solr who sees that "/replication" example config will have a harder time understanding the 'old' config style for other request handlers. There is a *lot* of value in maintaining consistency -- even if it's ugly. Looking ahead two or three moves: adding support for something like this now would also probably make it that much harder to write a "converter" for existing solr config files if/when we switch to Spring or some other Java object wiring/configuration system. It's a minor problem, but it has occurred to me. > Allow components to read any kind of XML from solrconfig > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-614 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-614 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 1.3 > Reporter: Noble Paul > Assignee: Shalin Shekhar Mangar > Priority: Trivial > Fix For: 1.3 > > Attachments: SOLR-614.patch, SOLR-614.patch, SOLR-614.patch, > SOLR-614.patch > > > All the components initialized by Solr have an init(NamedList args) > initializer. This leads us to writing the configuration needed for the > component in the NamedList xml format. People familiar with Solr may know the > format but most of what is written is noise than information. For users who > are not familiar w/ the format find it too difficult to understand why they > have to write it this way. Moreover , it is not a very efficient way to > configure . -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.