Can you raise a JIRA? If you’re ambitious, you can add a patch too ;)
> On Jul 16, 2020, at 2:52 AM, Marc Linden <marc.lin...@virtual-identity.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Erick for your fast response.
>
> I've checked out adding the sort param and yes that vanished the problem but
> it also disables elevation if I'm not mistaken. So after adding
> forceElevation=true to the query then a ClassCastException was thrown:
>
> http://localhost:9983/solr/core1/select?q=elevatedTerm&lowercaseOperators=false&df=text_en&defType=edismax&fq=lang:en&shards=localhost:9983/solr/core1,localhost:9983/solr/core2&fl=[elevated],[shard],area,id&rows=10&start=0&sort=area%20asc&forceElevation=true
>
> java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Integer cannot be cast to
> java.lang.String
> at
> org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType.unmarshalStringSortValue(FieldType.java:1229)
> at org.apache.solr.schema.StrField.unmarshalSortValue(StrField.java:122)
> at
> org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.unmarshalSortValues(QueryComponent.java:1092)
> at
> org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.mergeIds(QueryComponent.java:917)
> at
> org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.handleRegularResponses(QueryComponent.java:613)
> at
> org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.handleResponses(QueryComponent.java:592)
> at
> org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:431)
> at
> org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:199)
> at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:2578)
> at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.execute(HttpSolrCall.java:780)
> ...
>
> Best regards,
> Marc
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2020 14:32
> An: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Betreff: Re: Elevation with distributed search causes NPE
>
> Hmmm, looking at the code that line looks like this:
>
> sortSpec.getSort().getSort();
>
> I’m curious what happens if you specify a sort on the query? If that makes
> the problem go away, it’s a smoking gun.
>
> Whether or not adding sorting makes the problem go away, this looks like
> something that’s a legitimate JIRA, please go ahead and raise one.
>
> Best,
> Erick
>
>> On Jul 15, 2020, at 4:34 AM, Marc Linden <marc.lin...@virtual-identity.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm facing the problem that Solr is throwing a NullPointerException when
>> performing a distributed search with multiple shards having elevation
>> configured where one or more shards do have elevated results but others do
>> not.
>>
>> We are using Solr 8.2 and have the QueryElevationComponent configured with
>> "last-components" of the default search handler "/select". But the problem
>> also occurs when using the explicit "/elevate" search handler.
>> <requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler"> ...
>> <arr name="last-components">
>> <str>elevator</str>
>> </arr>
>> </requestHandler>
>> ...
>> <searchComponent name="elevator" class="solr.QueryElevationComponent"
>>>
>> <!-- pick a fieldType to analyze queries --> <str
>> name="queryFieldType">string</str>
>> <str name="config-file">elevate.xml</str>
>> </searchComponent>
>>
>> ### Steps to reproduce:
>>
>> (1) Add entries to the elevate.xml of each core to elevate a specific
>> document for the text "searchTerm":
>>
>> core1:
>> <elevate>
>> ...
>> <query text="searchTerm"><doc id="core1docId1" /></query>
>> </elevate>
>> core2:
>> <elevate>
>> ...
>> <query text="searchTerm"><doc id="core2docId1" /></query>
>> </elevate>
>>
>> (2) Execute query (we use port 9983):
>> http://localhost:9983/solr/web/select?q=elevatedTerm&lowercaseOperator
>> s=false&df=text_en&defType=edismax&fq=lang:en&shards=localhost:9983/so
>> lr/core1,localhost:9983/solr/core2&fl=[elevated],[shard],area,id&rows=
>> 10&start=0
>>
>> Now as both shards have elevated documents for the requested "searchTerm"
>> the search results are as expected:
>>
>> response: {
>> numFound: 5192,
>> start: 0,
>> maxScore: 1.9032197,
>> docs: [{
>> area: "press",
>> id: "core1docId1",
>> [elevated]: true,
>> [shard]: "localhost:9983/solr/core1"
>> }, {
>> area: "products",
>> id: "core2docId1",
>> [elevated]: true,
>> [shard]: "localhost:9983/solr/core2"
>> }, {
>> area: "press",
>> id: "core1docId2",
>> [elevated]: false,
>> [shard]: "localhost:9983/solr/core1"
>> },
>> ...
>>
>> (3) Remove the elevation entry for that "searchTerm" from one of the
>> cores, e.g. via comment
>>
>> core2:
>> <elevate>
>> ...
>> <!--
>> <query text="searchTerm"><doc id="core2docId1" /></query>
>> -->
>> </elevate>
>>
>>
>> (4) Reload the modified core:
>> http://localhost:9983/solr/admin/cores?action=RELOAD&core=core2
>>
>> (5) Request same query again and you get the NPE:
>>
>> error: {
>> trace: "java.lang.NullPointerException
>> at
>> org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.unmarshalSortValues(QueryComponent.java:1068)
>> at
>> org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.mergeIds(QueryComponent.java:917)
>> at
>> org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.handleRegularResponses(QueryComponent.java:613)
>> at
>> org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.handleResponses(QueryComponent.java:592)
>> at
>> org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:431)
>> at
>> org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:199)
>> at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:2578)
>> at
>> org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.execute(HttpSolrCall.java:780)
>> at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.call(HttpSolrCall.java:566)
>> at
>> org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:423)
>> at
>> org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:350)
>> at
>> org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1602)
>> at
>> org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:540)
>> ...
>>
>>
>> I want to ask the community if I'm missing something or if this really is a
>> bug.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Marc
>> Marc Linden
>> Developer
>>
>> Virtual Identity AG
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>> 79098 Freiburg
>>
>> +49 761 20758-422
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>>
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>> http://www.virtual-identity.com
>>
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>
> Marc Linden
> Developer
>
> Virtual Identity AG
> Grünwälderstraße 10-14
> 79098 Freiburg
>
> +49 761 20758-422
> --
>
> marc.lin...@virtual-identity.com
> http://www.virtual-identity.com
>
> Freiburg | München | Wien | Porto
>
> ________________________________
>
> Virtual Identity AG
> Grünwälderstraße 10-14
> 79098 Freiburg
> Amtsgericht Freiburg, HRB 6218
> Vorstand: Ralf Heller
> Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrates: Kirsten Heller
> Umsatzsteuer-ID: DE208002218