Forgot to mention, I am using dismax queryhandler. I just tested this with out of box latest nightly build and it throws the same error.
http://localhost:8982/select/?q.alt=*:*&qt=dismax Any thoughts. Regards Kalyan ----- Original Message ---- From: kalyan chakravarti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: solr user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:28:05 AM Subject: Highlight component throws Nullpointer when using q.alt=*:* Hi, When I am trying to use q.alt=*:* without using q= param, the highlightComponent throws NPE. responsebuilder.getHighlightQuery() is null in HighlightComponent.class Here is the snippet of execption. HTTP Status 500 - null java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.solr.handler.component.HighlightComponent.process(HighlightComponent.java:77) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:156) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:128) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1025) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:338) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:272) at Do I need to configure anything specific for q.alt=*:*. Regards Kalyan
