diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/request/XMLWriter.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/request/XMLWriter.java
index 54b83be4ff8..fb60dcbb37b 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/request/XMLWriter.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/request/XMLWriter.java
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ final public class XMLWriter {
   private final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
   private final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 
-  XMLWriter(Writer writer, IndexSchema schema, SolrIndexSearcher searcher, String version) {
+  public XMLWriter(Writer writer, IndexSchema schema, SolrIndexSearcher searcher, String version) {
     this.writer = writer;
     this.schema = schema;
     this.searcher = searcher;