Have you checked out the SchemaRequest class in SolrJ? Have not used it myself,
but looks helpful instead of using GenericSolrRequest for this?
https://solr.apache.org/docs/9_0_0/solrj/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/request/schema/package-summary.html
Jan
> 31. aug. 2022 kl. 00:30 skrev Christopher Schultz
> <ch...@christopherschultz.net>:
>
> All,
>
> I've been working lately on bootstrapping a Solr core from within my
> application. The source language is Java so I'm using SolrJ and I must say,
> it's /very/ straightforward to use it for things like performing queries and
> adding documents to a core, but outside of that, it's very difficult to
> figure out how anything is supposed to work.
>
> I have figured out how to query the schema and wade through the morass of
> nested NamedList<?>, ArrayList<?>, Map.Entry<String,Object>, etc. to actually
> read the defined fields so I can perform a "diff" against the complete list
> of expected fields.
>
> Now I'm trying to do the equivalent of:
>
> curl --post '{ "add-field":{"name":"first", "type":"text_general",
> "stored":true}}' [url]
>
> I can't for the life of me figure out how to actually pass the request entity
> (aka POST body) to the API, though.
>
> Here's what I've got:
>
> req = new GenericSolrRequest(METHOD.POST, "/" + coreName + "/schema", null);
> // req.setRequestContent("{ \"add-field\":{\"name\":\"first\",
> \"type\":\"text_general\", \"stored\":true}}");
> req.process(solr);
>
> So, I can already do a GET, but a POST? I tried looking around the API and
> I'm just not seeing it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -chris
