: I tied to reproduce this in 1.4 using an index/configs created with 1.3, : but i got a *different* NPE when loading this url...
I should have tried a simpler test ... iget NPE's just trying to execute a simple search for *:* when i try to use the example index built in 1.3 (with the 1.3 configs) in 1.4. same (apparent) cause: code is attempting to deref a string returned by Fieldable.stringValue() which is null... java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.solr.schema.SortableIntField.write(SortableIntField.java:72) at org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField.write(SchemaField.java:108) at org.apache.solr.request.XMLWriter.writeDoc(XMLWriter.java:311) at org.apache.solr.request.XMLWriter$3.writeDocs(XMLWriter.java:483) at org.apache.solr.request.XMLWriter.writeDocuments(XMLWriter.java:420) at org.apache.solr.request.XMLWriter.writeDocList(XMLWriter.java:457) at org.apache.solr.request.XMLWriter.writeVal(XMLWriter.java:520) at org.apache.solr.request.XMLWriter.writeResponse(XMLWriter.java:130) at org.apache.solr.request.XMLResponseWriter.write(XMLResponseWriter.java:34) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.writeResponse(SolrDispatchFilter.java:325) This really does smell like something in Lucene changed behavior drasticly. I've been looking at diffs from java/tr...@691741 and java/tags/lucene_2_9_1 but nothing jumps out at me that would explain this. If nothing else, i'm opening a solr issue... -Hoss