: When I run the following query (Solr 4.10.2) with edit-distance, I'm : getting a null pointer exception: : : *<host>/solr/select?q=fld:(Event : ID)&fl=strdist("eventid",fld_alphaonly,edit)*
probably this bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6540 : <response><lst name="error"><str name="trace">java.lang.NullPointerException : </str><int name="code">500</int></lst></response> : : It works if I remove the space between "Event ID", like: : *<host>/solr/select?q=fld:(EventID)&fl=strdist("eventid",fld_alphaonly,edit)* because that's a different query, so it matches different docs, so when you ask for the "fl" you get differnet things (evidently some docs have the "fld_alphaonly" field, and some docs don't) -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/