Hi; If you had a chance to change the code at client side I would suggest to try that: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_2_1/solr-solrj/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/HttpSolrServer.html#setParser(org.apache.solr.client.solrj.ResponseParser) There maybe a problem about character encoding of your Play App and here is the information:
Javabin is a custom binary format used to write out Solr's response in a fast and efficient manner. As of Solr 3.1, the JavaBin format has changed to version 2. Version 2 serializes strings differently: instead of writing the number of UTF-16 characters followed by the bytes in Modified UTF-8 it writes the number of UTF-8 bytes followed by the bytes in UTF-8. Which version of Solr and Solrj do you use respectively? On the other hand if you give us more information I can help you because there may be any other interesting thing as like here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5744 Thanks; Furkan KAMACI 2014-04-12 22:18 GMT+03:00 Prashant Golash <prashant.gol...@gmail.com>: > Hi Solr Gurus, > > I have some doubt related to solrj client. > > My scenario is like this: > > - There is a proxy server (Play App) which internally queries solr. > - The proxy server is called from client side, which uses Solrj library. > The issue is that I can't change client code. I can only change > configurations to call different servers, hence I need to use SolrJ. > - Results are successfully returned from my play app in > *java-bin*format without modify them, but on client side, I am > receiving this > exception: > > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > * at > > org.apache.solr.common.util.JavaBinCodec.readExternString(JavaBinCodec.java:689)* > * at > org.apache.solr.common.util.JavaBinCodec.readVal(JavaBinCodec.java:188)* > * at > org.apache.solr.common.util.JavaBinCodec.unmarshal(JavaBinCodec.java:112)* > * at > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.BinaryResponseParser.processResponse(BinaryResponseParser.java:41)* > * at > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrServer.request(HttpSolrServer.java:385)* > * at > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrServer.request(HttpSolrServer.java:180)* > * at > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.QueryRequest.process(QueryRequest.java:90)* > * at org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServer.query(SolrServer.java:310)* > * at > > com.ibm.commerce.foundation.internal.server.services.search.util.SearchQueryHelper.query(SearchQueryHelper.java:125)* > * at > > com.ibm.commerce.foundation.server.services.rest.search.processor.solr.SolrRESTSearchExpressionProcessor.performSearch(SolrRESTSearchExpressionProcessor.java:506)* > * at > > com.ibm.commerce.foundation.server.services.search.SearchServiceFacade.performSearch(SearchS* > erviceFacade.java:193) > > I am not sure, if this exception is related to some issue in response > format or with respect to querying non-solr server from solrj. > > Let me know your thoughts > > Thanks, > Prashant >