Metacat

check for existing index document before trying to use existing fields.

Use the verity=>none for start_tls method on some search methods.
These methods will search the referral servers, some of which is using self-signed certificate. There is a difficuty to verify it.
The search methods don't have any critical data, so the down-grade doesn't have too much impact.

allow indexing of RDF documents - provide a sparql query that will return values for the field name. Using measurement_sm initially (a dynamic multivalued solr field). https://projects.ecoinformatics.org/ecoinfo/issues/6253

use our own copy of the solr schema

check for existing documents - don't assume it exists.

fix typos/compilation

Change the test file according to the change on the constructor.

Change to use AuthFile constructor.

Add code to check if groups is null.

Sync access policy between mn -> cn in case where metacat native ui being used to update ap on mn