Significant developer experience issues posting the schema

Add feedback to the command about success/failure.

Adding -vvv in the drush search-api-pantheon:postSchema command, should normally show you a successful upload of the configuration like in this screenshot:

Note also that there is a 5 minutes window time after the new configuration to take effect, this mean, you need to wait for a few minutes and then you can reset the index tracker and re-index the site.

Update the documentation to show the path format, and the most common example (modules/contrib/search_api_solr/solr-conf-templates/8.x/)

if you --help the drush command, it will show you the format, e.g.

drush search-api-pantheon:postSchema --help

Fix the platform issues with auto-posting the schema

This is a bit challenging, not all sites are using the same path and some are using their own Custom Schema and upload it somewhere in the /code directory.

> Adding -vvv in the drush search-api-pantheon:postSchema command, should normally show you a successful upload of the configuration like in this screenshot:

ahh, okay I missed that. I was just moving too fast in a bit of a panic.

> Note also that there is a 5 minutes window time after the new configuration to take effect, this mean, you need to wait for a few minutes and then you can reset the index tracker and re-index the site.

So this might've been the core problem. Is this documented anywhere? Ideally after I run `postSchema` either via Drush or the GUI.

> if you --help the drush command, it will show you the format, e.g.
> drush search-api-pantheon:postSchema --help

It doesn't on the versions that I'm using:

Dalin, actually that's it, in your screenshot, it show you the available arguments for the command.

The command drush search-api-pantheon:postSchema does have 2 arguments:

1. [server_id]
2. [path]

So you should construct it like this-> drush search-api-pantheon:postSchema $SERVER_ID $PATH_TO_CONFIGURATION

e.g.

drush search-api-pantheon:postSchema pantheon_solr8 /code/web/modules/contrib/search_api_solr/jump-start/solr8/config-set/ -vvv

@danreb,
But back to my original bug report:

> I do have the option of manually giving it a file path. But what's the format? relative to the webroot, code root, or absolute?

Also, it would be helpful to show what path it will attempt to use if I omit the default.

@Dalin,

Ok, I'll try to explain this, the Search API Pantheon module does not shipped with a Solr Schema configuration, but the module search_api_solr have the jumpstart configuration file for Solr 8 as you can see here https://git.drupalcode.org/project/search_api_solr/-/tree/4.x/jump-start...

If you post the Solr Schema without specifying a directory, the module will just use what is shipped in search_api_solr jumpstart folder.

The one that you used https://git.drupalcode.org/project/search_api_solr/-/tree/4.x/solr-conf-... which is in the solr-conf-templates/8.x seems to be an old configurations and it has a properties defined that is already been removed in the newer version.

solr.install.dir=../../../.. in the solrcore.properties file.

In Pantheon, all the code is in /code directory and the website root is in /code/web

So in my experience, if you supply a path to the Search API Pantheon CMS admin UI in pantheon, you need to specify the code root directory

e.g.

/code/web/modules/contrib/search_api_solr/jump-start/solr8/config-set/

or if you uploaded your Custom Solr Schema in /code/config/solr directory, you should specify it

/code/config/solr/

@danreb

That's great info.

So it sounds like what we need is

drush search-api-pantheon::postSchema --help to output something like

Arguments:
 [server_id] Search API Server ID to post schema for.
 [path]         Path to schema files (Leave empty to use default schema).  The default is /code/web/modules/contrib/search_api_solr/jump-start/solr8/config-set/

and drush search-api-pantheon::postSchema to output something like

Successfully posted schema files from /code/web/modules/contrib/search_api_solr/jump-start/solr8/config-set/
Please wait 5 minutes for the changes to take affect before attempting to index content.

and /admin/config/search/search-api/server/pantheon_solr8/pantheon-admin/schema to output something like

Successfully posted schema files from /code/web/modules/contrib/search_api_solr/jump-start/solr8/config-set/
Please wait 5 minutes for the changes to take affect before attempting to index content.

@Dalin,

The 5 minutes window time for the new Solr Schema configuration to take effect is not necessarily means it is 5 minutes. The configuration update will happen within a maximum of 5 minutes and can be much shorter depending on the last checked that the platform does.

But yes, waiting for 5 minutes is safest.