operations

Operations define the actions performed during a challenge. They are referenced from challenge schedules.

Syntax

Operations can be defined inline in a schedule or in a top-level "operations" section:

{
  "operations": [
    {
      "name": "my-search",
      "operation-type": "search",
      "body": {
        "query": "*:*",
        "rows": 10
      }
    }
  ]
}

Built-in operation types

bulk-index

{
  "operation-type": "bulk-index",
  "bulk-size": 500,
  "collection": "my_collection"
}

Parameter	Default	Description
bulk-size	500	Number of documents per batch
collection	(first collection in workload)	Target collection
corpora	(all corpora)	Corpus name to index from

search

{
  "operation-type": "search",
  "body": {
    "query": "*:*",
    "rows": 10,
    "fl": "id,title"
  },
  "collection": "my_collection"
}

The body is passed directly as a Solr JSON query body. Use standard Solr JSON Request API syntax.

commit

{ "operation-type": "commit" }

Issues a hard commit to Solr. Optional collection parameter.

optimize

{ "operation-type": "optimize", "max-num-segments": 1 }

Issues a force-merge (optimize) to reduce the segment count to max-num-segments (default: 1).

create-collection

{
  "operation-type": "create-collection",
  "collection": "my_collection",
  "configset-path": "configsets/my_schema",
  "shards": 1,
  "nrt_replicas": 1
}

delete-collection

{
  "operation-type": "delete-collection",
  "collection": "my_collection"
}

raw-request

{
  "operation-type": "raw-request",
  "path": "/api/collections/my_collection/config",
  "method": "POST",
  "body": {
    "set-property": {
      "updateHandler.autoSoftCommit.maxTime": "5000"
    }
  }
}

Executes an arbitrary HTTP request against the Solr Admin API (/api/... V2 endpoints).

Parameter	Default	Description
path	(required)	API path, e.g. /api/collections/my_coll/config
method	GET	HTTP method: GET, POST, DELETE
body	(none)	Request body (JSON object)