Hey guys, I have a situation where I have a lot of collections that share the same core config in Zookeeper. For each of my SolrCloud collections, 99.9% of the config (schema.xml, solrcloud.xml) are the same, only the DataImportHandler parameters are different for different database names/credentials, per collection.
To provide the different DIH credentials per collection, I currently upload many copies of the exact-same Solr config dir with 1 Xincluded file with the 4-5 database parameters that are different alongside the schema.xml and solrconfig.xml. I don't feel this ideal and is wasting space in Zookeeper considering most of my configs are duplicated. At a high level, is there a way for me to share one config in Zookeeper while having minor overrides to the variables? Is there a way for me to XInclude a file outside of my Zookeeper config dir, ie: could I XInclude arbitrary locations in Zookeeper so that I can have the same config dir for all collections and a file in Zookeeper that is external to the common config dir to apply the collection-specific overrides? To extend my question for Solr 4.4 core.properties files: am I stuck in the same boat under Solr 4.4 if I have say 10 collections sharing one config, but I want each to have a unique core.properties? Cheers! Tim
