README needs to be updated, since search_api_solr_defaults module no longer exists

[joestewart]

It appears the search_api_solr_defaults module was removed from search_api_solr 4.x
https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr/issues/3295726

The step in the README can't be used.

"Enable the Search API Solr Search Defaults module: ddev drush en -y search_api_solr_defaults. (If it can't be enabled due to the "article" content type not existing, you can just create a search_api_solr server manually.)"

[rfay]

@joestewart could you do a PR to update? @mkalkbrenner can you confirm and/or offer other guidance?

[mkalkbrenner]

Yes, search_api_solr_defaults has been removed from the search_api_solr module.
Since it was just for demonstration purposes and its tests failed with newer Drupal 9.x cores, we decided to remove it.

@joestewart maybe you can try https://github.com/drud/ddev-contrib/tree/master/docker-compose-services/solr

[rfay]

@mkalkbrenner that same set of steps is already baked into this add-on. The thing that's wrong is the README, because of the change. And IIRC, the same problem is in the ddev-contrib README.

[mkalkbrenner]

@rfay Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean.

that same set of steps is already baked into this add-on.

Baked into which add-on?

And IIRC, the same problem is in the ddev-contrib README.

There's nothing about search_api_solr_defaults

[tyler36]

@mkalkbrenner

that same set of steps is already baked into this add-on.

This addon (drud/ddev-drupal9-solr) copies the docker-compose & solr files into the appropriate .ddev directory.

View install.yaml to see exactly what it is doing.

[tyler36]

@rfay

A quick search of ddev-contrib shows zero hits of "search_api_solr_defaults".

[rfay]

You're certainly right, sorry. There has been a pile of change in the Drupal Solr world in the last year or so and @mkalkbrenner did a completely new setup in recent times, to track the work he's done with search_api_solr. I've been hoping to get his new solr cloud work into a new add-on but we haven't gotten it to pass muster yet in ddev-contrib, see ddev/ddev-contrib#195

What I'd like is to use the new approach here.

I can't even find a reference to search_api_solr_defaults in https://ddev.com/ddev-local/apache-solr-with-drupal-8-and-search-api-solr/, which I thought might have been the source. And it's certainly not mentioned in the current https://github.com/drud/ddev-contrib/tree/master/docker-compose-services/solr

There are two things here:

1. This is the pre-solr-cloud recipe which is most often used in the Drupal community still. But it needs the defaults module removed and it needs the step-by-step configuration added in so that people have it.
2. The solr cloud approach that @mkalkbrenner prefers is the one in https://github.com/drud/ddev-contrib/tree/master/docker-compose-services/solr and use official zookeeper image for solr-drupal recipe ddev-contrib#195 - It's a very different approach, and will probably need a new add-on. I had been hoping to get use official zookeeper image for solr-drupal recipe ddev-contrib#195 sorted out and do that quite some time ago, but we haven't made progress there.

[rfay]

All that's required here @joestewart is to fix up the README to tell people how to set the defaults that are required (and NOT enable that module). Would you be willing to do a PR to the README doing that? It's so much better to have people using the project do things with it. Especially if you are a regular user of solr.

[cspitzlay]

See #8

[rfay]

If everybody could test the new instructions in #8 using a fresh Drupal 9 project that would be awesome!