Our application uses collapse on a major scale. If grouping is undertaken major changes would be required on application end, which I want to avoid.
Here is the exception that I get without the patch: Jan 30, 2012 10:39:52 AM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error loading class 'org.apache.solr.handler.component.CollapseComponent' at org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.findClass(SolrResourceLoader.java:389) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.createInstance(SolrCore.java:425) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.createInitInstance(SolrCore.java:447) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initPlugins(SolrCore.java:1556) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initPlugins(SolrCore.java:1550) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initPlugins(SolrCore.java:1583) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.loadSearchComponents(SolrCore.java:856) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:560) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.create(CoreContainer.java:463) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.load(CoreContainer.java:316) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.load(CoreContainer.java:207) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$Initializer.initialize(CoreContainer.java:130) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:94) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:275) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:397) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3693) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4340) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:825) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:714) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:566) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.solr.handler.component.CollapseComponent at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.net.FactoryURLClassLoader.loadClass(URLClassLoader.java:627) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.findClass(SolrResourceLoader.java:373) * And this is the latest exception that I get, after applying the patch:* null java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.solr.search.fieldcollapse.collector.FieldValueCountCollapseCollectorFactory$FieldValueCountCollapseCollector.getResult(FieldValueCountCollapseCollectorFactory.java:84) at org.apache.solr.search.fieldcollapse.AbstractDocumentCollapser.getCollapseInfo(AbstractDocumentCollapser.java:220) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.CollapseComponent.doProcess(CollapseComponent.java:178) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.CollapseComponent.process(CollapseComponent.java:121) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:194) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1372) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:356) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) 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:230) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:179) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:84) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:157) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:241) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:580) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Which-patch-236-to-choose-for-collapse-Solr-3-5-tp3697685p3699161.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.