I know I've seen other anomalies with odd characters in field names. In general, it's much safer to use only letters, numbers, and underscores. In fact, I even prefer lowercase letters. Since you're pretty sure those work, why not just use them?
Best Erick On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Luis Neves <luis.ne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I'm experimenting with the "Distributed Search" bits in the nightly builds > and I'm facing a problem. > > I have on my schema.xml some dynamic fields defined like this: > > <dynamicField name="$*" type="double" indexed="true" stored="true" /> > <dynamicField name="@*" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" > multiValued="true" /> > <dynamicField name="*" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" /> > > > When hitting a single shard the following query works fine: > > http://<solr>/select?q=*:*&fl=ts,$distinct_boxes > > But when I add the "&distrib=true" parameter I get a NullPointerException: > > > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.returnFields(QueryComponent.java:1025) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.handleRegularResponses(QueryComponent.java:725) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.handleResponses(QueryComponent.java:700) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:292) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1451) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:353) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:248) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) > at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:399) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) > at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182) > at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766) > at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114) > at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152) > at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:928) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:549) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:228) > at > org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582) > > > > The "$" in "$distinct_boxes" appears to be the culprit somehow, the query: > > <http://<solr>/select?q=*:*&fl=ts,distinct_boxes&distrib=true> > > works without errors, but of course doesn't retrieve the field I want. > > Funnily enough when requesting the uniqueKey field there are no errors: > > <http://<solr>/select?q=*:*&fl=tid,ts,$distinct_boxes&distrib=true> > > But somehow the data from the field "$distinct_boxes" doesn't appear in the > output. > > Is there some workaround? Using "fl=*" returns all the data from the fields > that start with "$" but it severely increases the size of the response. > > > -- > Luis Neves > > > >
