this was the right lead, thanks Alex
> Am 08.02.2017 um 22:20 schrieb Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com>:
>
> /update/json expects Solr JSON update format.
> /update is an auto-route that should be equivalent to /update/json
> with the right content type/extension.
>
> /update/json/docs expects random JSON and tries to extract fields for
> indexing from it.
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Transforming+and+Indexing+Custom+JSON
>
> Regards,
> Alex.
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> On 8 February 2017 at 15:54, Florian Meier
> <meierfloria...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote:
>> dear solr users,
>> can somebody explain the exact difference between the to update handlers?
>> I’m asking cause with some curl commands solr fails to identify the fields
>> of the json doc and indexes everything in _str_:
>>
>> Those work perfectly:
>> curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/testcore2/update/json?commit=true'
>> --data-binary @example/exampledocs/cacmDocs.json
>>
>>
>> curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/testcore2/update?commit=true' --data-binary
>> @example/exampledocs/cacmDocs.json -H 'Content-type:application/json'
>>
>> But those two (both with update/json/docs) don't
>>
>> curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/testcore2/update/json/docs?commit=true'
>> --data-binary @example/exampledocs/cacmDocs.json -H
>> 'Content-type:application/json‘
>>
>> curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/testcore2/update/json/docs?commit=true'
>> --data-binary @example/exampledocs/cacmDocs.json
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Florian
>>
>>
>>
>>
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