Hello List, I try to enable the spellchecker in my 1.4.0 solr (running with tomcat 6 on debian). But I always get the following exception, when I try to open http://localhost:8080/spell?xxxx:
HTTP Status 500 - null java.lang.NullPointerException at java.io.StringReader.<init>(StringReader.java:33) at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(QueryParser.java:197) at org.apache.solr.search.LuceneQParser.parse(LuceneQParserPlugin.java:78) at org.apache.solr.search.QParser.getQuery(QParser.java:131) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.prepare(QueryComponent.java:89) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:174) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:131) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1316) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:338) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:849) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:454) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) My Configuration looks like this: solrconfig.xml <searchComponent name="spellcheck" class="solr.SpellCheckComponent"> <str name="queryAnalyzerFieldType">textSpell</str> <lst name="spellchecker"> <str name="name">a_spell</str> <str name="field">a_spell</str> <str name="buildOnOptimze">true</str> <str name="buildOnCommit">false</str> <str name="spellcheckIndexDir">./spellchecker</str> </lst> </searchComponent> <requestHandler name="/spell" class="solr.SearchHandler" lazy="true"> <lst name="defaults"> <!-- omp = Only More Popular --> <str name="spellcheck.onlyMorePopular">false</str> <!-- exr = Extended Results --> <str name="spellcheck.extendedResults">false</str> <!-- The number of suggestions to return --> <str name="spellcheck.count">1</str> </lst> <arr name="last-components"> <str>spellcheck</str> </arr> </requestHandler> schema.xml <fieldType name="textSpell" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100" stored="false" multiValued="true"> <analyzer type="index"> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.StandardFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> <analyzer type="query"> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <!-- <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/> --> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.StandardFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> </fieldType> ...... <field name="a_spell" type="textSpell" /> I don't know what's wrong with the given configuration and the exception not really clear ;) Can somebody give me a hint? Thank you in anticipation. Best regards, Rafael.