SOLR-10365: Handle a SolrCoreInitializationException while publishing core state during SolrCore creation

solr/CHANGES.txt

@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ Other Changes
 
 * SOLR-10343: Update Solr default/example and test configs to use SynonymGraphFilterFactory. (Steve Rowe)
 
+* SOLR-10365: Handle a SolrCoreInitializationException while publishing core state during SolrCore creation
+  (Ishan Chattopadhyaya)
+
 ==================  6.5.0 ==================
 
 Consult the LUCENE_CHANGES.txt file for additional, low level, changes in this release.

solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/cloud/ZkController.java

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ import org.apache.solr.core.CloudConfig;
 import org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer;
 import org.apache.solr.core.CoreDescriptor;
 import org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore;
+import org.apache.solr.core.SolrCoreInitializationException;
 import org.apache.solr.logging.MDCLoggingContext;
 import org.apache.solr.update.UpdateLog;
 import org.apache.zookeeper.CreateMode;
@@ -1233,6 +1234,9 @@ public class ZkController {
             }
           }
         }
+      } catch (SolrCoreInitializationException ex) {
+        // The core had failed to initialize (in a previous request, not this one), hence nothing to do here.
+        log.info("The core '{}' had failed to initialize before.", cd.getName());
       }
       
       ZkNodeProps m = new ZkNodeProps(props);

solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/CoreContainer.java

@@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@ public class CoreContainer {
    * @see SolrCore#close()
    * @param name the core name
    * @return the core if found, null if a SolrCore by this name does not exist
-   * @exception SolrException if a SolrCore with this name failed to be initialized
+   * @exception SolrCoreInitializationException if a SolrCore with this name failed to be initialized
    */
   public SolrCore getCore(String name) {
 
@@ -1313,9 +1313,7 @@ public class CoreContainer {
       // error with the details for clients attempting to access it.
       CoreLoadFailure loadFailure = getCoreInitFailures().get(name);
       if (null != loadFailure) {
-        throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, "SolrCore '" + name +
-                                "' is not available due to init failure: " +
-                                loadFailure.exception.getMessage(), loadFailure.exception);
+        throw new SolrCoreInitializationException(name, loadFailure.exception);
       }
       // otherwise the user is simply asking for something that doesn't exist.
       return null;

solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/SolrCoreInitializationException.java

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.solr.core;
+
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
+
+public class SolrCoreInitializationException extends SolrException {
+
+  public SolrCoreInitializationException(ErrorCode code, String msg) {
+    super(code, msg);
+  }
+  
+  public SolrCoreInitializationException(String coreName, Exception loadException) {
+    super(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, "SolrCore '" + coreName +
+        "' is not available due to init failure: " +
+        loadException.getMessage(), loadException);
+  }
+}