Hi Firstly, apologies for the long post, I changed the quote to double quote (and sometimes it is messy copying from DOS windows)
Here is the command and the output on the Jetty Server Window. I am highlighting some important pieces, I have enabled the LOG LEVEL to DEBUG on the JETTY window. C:\Tools\Solr\apache-solr-4.0-2012-05-15_08-20-37\example\exampledocs>C:\tools\curl\curl "http://localhost:8983/solr/update?commit=true" --data-binary @books.js on -H 'Content-type:application/json' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <response> <lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1930</int ></lst> </response> 2012-05-16 16:05:49.636:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.solr.core.IndexDeletionPolicyWrapper$IndexCommitWrapper from WebAppClassLoader=sol May 16, 2012 4:05:49 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrDeletionPolicy onInit INFO: SolrDeletionPolicy.onInit: commits:num=1 commit{dir=C:\Tools\Solr\apache-solr-4.0-2012-05-15_08-20-37\example\solr\data\index,segFN=segments_3,generation=3,filenames=[_1_nrm.cfs, _0_0.frq, _0 May 16, 2012 4:05:49 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrDeletionPolicy updateCommits *INFO: newest commit = 3* 2012-05-16 16:05:49.723:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded interface java.util.concurrent.Future 2012-05-16 16:05:49.737:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded interface java.util.concurrent.Future from null May 16, 2012 4:05:49 PM org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2 commit INFO: start commit{flags=0,version=0,optimize=false,openSearcher=true,waitSearcher=true,expungeDeletes=false,softCommit=false} 2012-05-16 16:05:49.781:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.lucene.index.BufferedDeletesStream$ApplyDeletesResult from WebAppClassLoader=solr@ May 16, 2012 4:05:49 PM org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher <init> INFO: Opening Searcher@1cac622a main 2012-05-16 16:05:49.835:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore$2 from WebAppClassLoader=solr@62ebcdbb 2012-05-16 16:05:49.849:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore$4 from WebAppClassLoader=solr@62ebcdbb May 16, 2012 4:05:49 PM org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2 commit INFO: end_commit_flush 2012-05-16 16:05:49.865:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher$8 from WebAppClassLoader=solr@62ebcdbb May 16, 2012 4:05:49 PM org.apache.solr.core.QuerySenderListener newSearcher INFO: QuerySenderListener sending requests to Searcher@1cac622a main{StandardDirectoryReader(segments_3:5 _0(4.0):Cv32 _1(4.0):C2)} May 16, 2012 4:05:49 PM org.apache.solr.core.QuerySenderListener newSearcher INFO: QuerySenderListener done. May 16, 2012 4:05:49 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore registerSearcher INFO: [collection1] Registered new searcher Searcher@1cac622a main{StandardDirectoryReader(segments_3:5 _0(4.0):Cv32 _1(4.0):C2)} May 16, 2012 4:05:49 PM org.apache.solr.update.processor.LogUpdateProcessor finish INFO: [collection1] webapp=/solr path=/update params={commit=true&[ { "id" : "978-0641723445", "cat" : ["book","hardcover"], "name" : "The Lightning Thief", "author" : "Rick Riordan", "series_t" : "Percy Jackson and the Olympians", "sequence_i" : 1, "genre_s" : "fantasy", "inStock" : true, "price" : 12.50, "pages_i" : 384 } , { "id" : "978-1423103349", "cat" : ["book","paperback"], "name" : "The Sea of Monsters", "author" : "Rick Riordan", "series_t" : "Percy Jackson and the Olympians", "sequence_i" : 2, "genre_s" : "fantasy", "inStock" : true, "price" : 6.49, "pages_i" : 304 } , { "id" : "978-1857995879", "cat" : ["book","paperback"], "name" : "Sophie's World : The Greek Philosophers", "author" : "Jostein Gaarder", "sequence_i" : 1, "genre_s" : "fantasy", "inStock" : true, "price" : 3.07, "pages_i" : 64 } , { "id" : "978-1933988177", "cat" : ["book","paperback"], "name" : "Lucene in Action, Second Edition", "author" : "Michael McCandless", "sequence_i" : 1, "genre_s" : "IT", "inStock" : true, "price" : 30.50, "pages_i" : 475 } ] =} {commit=} 0 1930 2012-05-16 16:05:50.621:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.solr.response.TextResponseWriter from WebAppClassLoader=solr@62ebcdbb 2012-05-16 16:05:50.634:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.solr.response.XMLWriter from WebAppClassLoader=solr@62ebcdbb 2012-05-16 16:05:50.651:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.lucene.document.Document from WebAppClassLoader=solr@62ebcdbb 2012-05-16 16:05:50.666:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.solr.common.SolrDocument from WebAppClassLoader=solr@62ebcdbb 2012-05-16 16:05:50.683:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.solr.common.SolrDocumentList from WebAppClassLoader=solr@62ebcdbb 2012-05-16 16:05:50.698:DBUG:oejw.WebAppClassLoader:loaded class org.apache.solr.common.util.XML from WebAppClassLoader=solr@62ebcdbb 2012-05-16 16:05:50.713:DBUG:oejs.Server:RESPONSE /solr/update 200 2012-05-16 16:05:50.743:DBUG:oejh.HttpParser:filled -1/0 *2012-05-16 16:05:50.758:DBUG:oejs.AbstractHttpConnection:closed BlockingHttpConnection@138297fe,g=HttpGenerator{s=0,h=-1,b=-1,c=-1},p=HttpParser{s=0,l=0,c=-3}* -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Update-JSON-not-working-for-me-tp3983709p3984225.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.