Github user dossett commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/977#issuecomment-169147171 I am not familiar with all the ways that bolts can receive tick tuples, but does SolrBolt also need a way to specify that it should receive tick tuples at all? The hdfs-bolt way of doing that is here: https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/master/external/storm-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/hdfs/bolt/AbstractHdfsBolt.java#L221
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