Loading sample data

Now that we've got acquainted with Solr and the various commands involved in Solr's day-to-day usage, let's populate it with data so that we can query it as needed. Solr comes with sample data in examples. We will use the same $solr_home/example/films for our queries.

Fire up the terminal and create a collection films with 10 shards:

 solr\bin create -c films -shards 10

Now, in $solr_home/example/films there is file called file.json. Let's import it into our collection, films. Based on your OS, hit the appropriate command for the post script or post.jar.

Uh Oh!! It throws an error, as follows:

What must have gone wrong? By checking the logs while creating the collection, you must have seen a warning.

Note

Warning Using _default config set data driven schema functionality is enabled by default, which is not recommended for production use.

To turn it off, use the following command:

curl http://localhost:8983/solr/test11/config -d '{"set-user-property": {"update.autoCreateFields...