lugensa/clonecoreadminhandler

A solr plugin which allows to clone an existing core

clonecoreadminhandler

A solr plugin which allows to clone an existing core.

The plugin extends the solr CoreAdmin (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CoreAdmin) with an additional CLONE action.

We use this plugin in functional tests fixture setup for running multiple tests in parallel.

Usage:

http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/cores?action=CLONE&sourceCore=myexistingcore&targetCore=newcore

sourceCore: name of an existing core targetCore: name of the cloned core

The configuration (solrconfig.xml, schema.xml) from the sourceCore will be copied to a newly created instance dir.

All occurrences of sourceCore in theses config files will be replaced with the new name.

To make this plugin available do the following:

• change into the solr home directory (e.g. solr)
• create a lib in solr home directory (e.g. solr/lib)
• copy the jar clonecoreadminhandler.jar to solr/lib
• edit solr/solr.xml and set the 'adminHandler': <cores adminHandler="com.lugensa.solr.plugins.CloneCoreAdminHandler" ...

This plugin requires solr >= 4.5