[Building Sakai] Elastic Search (SRCH-111)

[John Bush]

hmm, that sounds like a bug, it should be 100% backwards compatible
with existing configuration.  Put a JIRA in and I'll address it.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> The new elastic search (SRCH-111) does not seem to be backward compatible, as least for sakai.properties configuration. My sakai trunk build does not boot with "search.enable = true". I've attached the catalina.out file, but here's the first error:
>
> 2013-01-23 10:41:35,127 ERROR Thread-3 org.sakaiproject.search.elasticsearch.ElasticSearchIndexBuilder - Failed to load Stop words into Analyzer
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>
> I'm not sure if this is intentional and the other specified sakai.properties (elasticsearch.http.*) need also need to be set or is this a bug? It will definitely break a lot of implementations as it stands. Perhaps I missed some email about this, but we should probably either update the JIRA to indicate properties changes will be _required_, or write this up as a new bug and make sure previous configurations will boot.
>
> Thanks,
> - Beth
>



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