Typically I'll just delete the entire data dir recursively after shutting down Solr, the default location is <solr_home>/solr/collectionblah/data
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Brian Robinson <br...@socialsurgemedia.com>wrote: > Thanks Shawn. I had actually tried changing &load= to &load=, but > still got the error. It sounds like addDocuments is worth a try, though. > > > On 9/11/2013 4:37 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > >> On 9/11/2013 2:17 PM, Brian Robinson wrote: >> >>> I'm in the process of creating my index using a series of >>> SolrClient::request commands in PHP. I ran into a problem when some of >>> the fields that I had as "text_general" fieldType contained "&load=" in >>> a URL, triggering an error because the HTML entity "load" wasn't >>> recognized. I realized that I should have made my URL fields of type >>> "string" instead, so that they would be taken as is (they're not being >>> indexed, just stored), so I removed all docs from my index, updated >>> schema.xml, and restarted Solr, but I'm still getting the same error. Do >>> I need to delete the index itself and then restart to get this to work? >>> Am I correct that changing those fields to "string" type should fix the >>> issue? >>> >> >> Changing the field type is not going to affect this issue. Because you >> are not indexing the field, the choice of string or text_general is not >> really going to matter, but string will probably be more efficient. >> >> What is happening here is an XML issue with the update request itself. >> The PHP client is sending an XML update request to Solr, and the request >> includes the URL text as-is in the XML request. It is not properly XML >> encoded. For an XML update request, that snippet of your text would need >> to be encoded as "&load=" to work properly. >> >> XML has a much smaller list of valid entities than HTML, but "load" is >> not a valid entity in either XML or HTML. >> >> I was going to call this a bug in the PHP client library, but then I got >> a look at what SolrClient::request actually does: >> >> http://php.net/manual/en/**solrclient.request.php<http://php.net/manual/en/solrclient.request.php> >> >> It expects you to create the XML yourself, which means you have to do all >> the encoding of characters which have special meaning to XML. >> >> If you have no desire to figure out proper XML encoding, you should >> probably be using SolrClient::addDocument or SolrClient::addDocuments >> instead. >> >> Thanks, >> Shawn >> >> >> >
