I can't reproduce the problem you described -- using 7.2.1 and the techproducts example i can index a JSON string w/white space just fine...
$ bin/solr -e techproducts $ curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/techproducts/update/json/docs' -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d ' { "id":"1", "name_s": "Joe Smith", "phone_s": 876876687}' { "responseHeader":{ "status":0, "QTime":5}} Your specific curl command had some oddities in it (".\" before "curl"; "-H" on a new line w/o "\" escaping the newline) that may have just been artifacts of copy/paste into email... But even when trying to run the command as i think you intended it, i did not get a JSON parsing error regarding space -- just a nested doc error because your "split" param wasn't compatible with the configured default "srcField" option in the techproducts configset... $ curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/techproducts/update/json/docs?srcField=&split=/|/orgs' -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d ' { "id":"1", "name_s": "Joe Smith", "phone_s": 876876687, "orgs": [ { "name1_s" : "Microsoft", "city_s" : "Seattle", "zip_s" : 98052}, { "name1_s" : "Apple", "city_s" : "Cupertino", "zip_s" : 95014} ] }' { "responseHeader":{ "status":400, "QTime":2}, "error":{ "metadata":[ "error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException", "root-error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException"], "msg":"Raw data can be stored only if split=/", "code":400}} Are you *certain* it was a plain old space character, and that you didn't somehow get an EOF character or NUL byte in there some how? Can you try running your curl command with the '--trace -' option and send us the full output? : Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 23:48:21 +0800 : From: Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo <edwinye...@gmail.com> : Reply-To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : Subject: Error in indexing JSON with space in value : : Hi, : : I am trying to index the following JSON, in which there is a space in the : name "Joe Smith". : : .\curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/collection/update/json/docs?split=/|/orgs : ' : -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d ' : { : "id":"1", : "name_s": "Joe Smith", : "phone_s": 876876687, : "orgs": [ : { : "name1_s" : "Microsoft", : "city_s" : "Seattle", : "zip_s" : 98052}, : { : "name1_s" : "Apple", : "city_s" : "Cupertino", : "zip_s" : 95014} : ] : }' : : However, I get the following error during the indexing. : : { : "responseHeader":{ : "status":400, : "QTime":1}, : "error":{ : "metadata":[ : "error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException", : "root-error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException"], : "msg":"Cannot parse provided JSON: Expected ',' or '}': : char=(EOF),position=24 AFTER=''", : "code":400}} : curl: (3) [globbing] bad range specification in column 39 : : : If I remove the space in "Joe Smith" to make it "JoeSmith", then the : indexing is successful. What can we do if we want to keep the space in the : name? Do we need to include some escape characters or something? : : I'm using Solr 7.2.1. : : Regards, : Edwin : -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/