Connection pooling strategy using guzzle

Question

I want to achieve high availability with SolR Cloud. I need to dev a SolR PHP Client supporting node failure.

My lead is to work with guzzle RetryMiddleware and somehow keeptrack of up or down nodes.

My question is : is it a good lead ? (I'm not very familiar with Guzzle)

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with Solr Cloud, but IMO if you want to create a proper client, you need to write your own middleware for Guzzle with the specific fallback logic inside.

RetryMiddleware is basically for retrying the same request after a delay period, nothing more. You cannot change the request (send it to a different node or something). That's why I think it could be only a part of the solution.

Otherwise the question is too broad at the moment.