@@ -76,5 +76,9 @@ public class QueryRequest extends SolrRequest<QueryResponse> {
     return query;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public String getRequestType() {
+    return SolrRequestType.QUERY.toString();
+  }
 }
 
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package org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request;

import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrClient;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrRequest;
import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.QueryResponse;
import org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonParams;
import org.apache.solr.common.params.SolrParams;

/**
 * 
 *
 * @since solr 1.3
 */
public class QueryRequest extends SolrRequest<QueryResponse> {

  private SolrParams query;
  
  public QueryRequest()
  {
    super( METHOD.GET, null );
  }

  public QueryRequest( SolrParams q )
  {
    super( METHOD.GET, null );
    query = q;
  }
  
  public QueryRequest( SolrParams q, METHOD method )
  {
    super( method, null );
    query = q;
  }

  /**
   * Use the params 'QT' parameter if it exists
   */
  @Override
  public String getPath() {
    String qt = query == null ? null : query.get( CommonParams.QT );
    if( qt == null ) {
      qt = super.getPath();
    }
    if( qt != null && qt.startsWith( "/" ) ) {
      return qt;
    }
    return "/select";
  }
  
  //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  @Override
  protected QueryResponse createResponse(SolrClient client) {
    return new QueryResponse(client);
  }

  @Override
  public SolrParams getParams() {
    return query;
  }

}


Something about this that I think bothers me is that we don't make a differentiation between distinct handlers, so we can't use this to build QoS levels. Like I can't say that RTG should always go through while `/select` might be acceptable to throttle and `/spellcheck` is even lower priority.