This page shows you how to apply a patch: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute>However, are you aware that this is a patch to the *source* code and then you have to compile it? A simpler approach would be to just grab either the trunk build or a very recent 3.x build. See: https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/
You'll find both solr trunk and solr 3x. note that Hudson (and NOT specifically Solr/Lucene) is suffering some bogus "failures" so don't be alarmed by that status. Follow the "build artifacts" link, then on down to "dist" and you'll find a full package awaiting installation with all the geospatial stuff already built... Best Erick On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Adam Estrada < estrada.adam.gro...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > Can anyone shed some light on this error. I can't seem to get this > class to load. I am using the distribution of Solr from Lucid > Imagination and the Spatial Plugin from here > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-773. I don't know how to > apply a patch but the jar file is in there. What else can I do? > > org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error loading class > 'org.apache.solr.spatial.tier.SpatialTierQueryParserPlugin' > at > org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.findClass(SolrResourceLoader.java:373) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.createInstance(SolrCore.java:413) > at > org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.createInitInstance(SolrCore.java:435) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initPlugins(SolrCore.java:1498) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initPlugins(SolrCore.java:1492) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initPlugins(SolrCore.java:1525) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initQParsers(SolrCore.java:1442) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:548) > at > org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$Initializer.initialize(CoreContainer.java:137) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:83) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doStart(FilterHolder.java:99) > at > org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:40) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:594) > at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:139) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1218) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:500) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:448) > at > org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:40) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:147) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:161) > at > org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:40) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:147) > at > org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:40) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:117) > at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:210) > at > org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:40) > at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:929) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at org.mortbay.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:183) > at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:497) > at org.mortbay.start.Main.main(Main.java:115) > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.solr.spatial.tier.SpatialTierQueryParserPlugin > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.net.FactoryURLClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source) > at > org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.findClass(SolrResourceLoader.java:357) > ... 33 more >