diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Config.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Config.java
index 00bac025ae2..343e2edb6b9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Config.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Config.java
@@ -7,13 +7,10 @@
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 import javax.ejb.EJB;
 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
-import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
-import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;
 
 @Path("config")
 public class Config extends AbstractApiBean {
@@ -23,9 +20,16 @@ public class Config extends AbstractApiBean {
     @EJB
     DatasetFieldServiceBean datasetFieldService;
 
+    /**
+     * We use the output of this method to generate our Solr schema.xml
+     *
+     * @todo Someday we do want to have this return a Response rather than a
+     * String per https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/298 but not yet while
+     * we are trying to ship Dataverse 4.0
+     */
     @GET
     @Path("solr/schema")
-    public Response getSolrSchema() {
+    public String getSolrSchema() {
 
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 
@@ -48,11 +52,11 @@ public Response getSolrSchema() {
                  * when we do a big schema.xml update for
                  * https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/754
                  */
-                logger.log(Level.INFO, "email type detected ({0}) See also https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/759", nameSearchable);
+                logger.info("email type detected (" + nameSearchable + ") See also https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/759");
             }
             String multivalued = datasetField.getSolrField().isAllowedToBeMultivalued().toString();
             // <field name="datasetId" type="text_general" multiValued="false" stored="true" indexed="true"/>
-            sb.append("   <field name=\"").append(nameSearchable).append("\" type=\"").append(type).append("\" multiValued=\"").append(multivalued).append("\" stored=\"true\" indexed=\"true\"/>\n");
+            sb.append("   <field name=\"" + nameSearchable + "\" type=\"" + type + "\" multiValued=\"" + multivalued + "\" stored=\"true\" indexed=\"true\"/>\n");
         }
 
         List<String> listOfStaticFields = new ArrayList();
@@ -63,7 +67,8 @@ public Response getSolrSchema() {
             String staticSearchField = null;
             try {
                 staticSearchField = (String) fieldObject.get(searchFieldsObject);
-            } catch (IllegalArgumentException | IllegalAccessException ex) {
+            } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
+            } catch (IllegalAccessException ex) {
             }
 
             /**
@@ -71,7 +76,7 @@ public Response getSolrSchema() {
              * need a copyField source="filetypemime_s" to the catchall?
              */
             if (listOfStaticFields.contains(staticSearchField)) {
-                return errorResponse( Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, "static search field defined twice: " + staticSearchField);
+                return error("static search field defined twice: " + staticSearchField);
             }
             listOfStaticFields.add(staticSearchField);
         }
@@ -86,19 +91,19 @@ public Response getSolrSchema() {
                 if (nameSearchable.equals(SearchFields.DATASET_DESCRIPTION)) {
                     // Skip, expected conflct.
                 } else {
-                    return errorResponse( Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, "searchable dataset metadata field conflict detected with static field: " + nameSearchable);
+                    return error("searchable dataset metadata field conflict detected with static field: " + nameSearchable);
                 }
             }
 
             if (listOfStaticFields.contains(nameFacetable)) {
-                return errorResponse( Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, "facetable dataset metadata field conflict detected with static field: " + nameFacetable);
+                return error("facetable dataset metadata field conflict detected with static field: " + nameFacetable);
             }
 
             // <copyField source="*_i" dest="text" maxChars="3000"/>
-            sb.append("   <copyField source=\"").append(nameSearchable).append("\" dest=\"text\" maxChars=\"3000\"/>\n");
+            sb.append("   <copyField source=\"" + nameSearchable + "\" dest=\"text\" maxChars=\"3000\"/>\n");
         }
 
-        return okResponse(sb.toString());
+        return sb.toString();
     }
 
 }