It is not tokenized, it is a string field, so will it still match "photo" for field 'title_s' and "book" for the default field?
Here is the exception stack trace: HTTP Status 500 - null java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.solr.search.SolrQueryParser.getFieldQuery(SolrQueryParser.java:73) at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Term(QueryParser.java:1092) at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Clause(QueryParser.java:979) at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Query(QueryParser.java:907) at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.TopLevelQuery(QueryParser.java:896) at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(QueryParser.java:146) at org.apache.solr.search.QueryParsing.parseQuery(QueryParsing.java:94) at org.apache.solr.request.StandardRequestHandler.handleRequestBody(StandardRequestHandler.java:109) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:77) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:658) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:191) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:159) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:541) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) -----Original Message----- From: Ryan McKinley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:26 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Exception in SOLR when querying for fields of type string Can you post the full exception? > > b) Do a query in the SOLR admin tool title_s: photo book > Do you have a space after the ':'? q=title_s: photo book I expect that would fail (though null pointer is not a very nice error) q=title_s:"photo book" should work fine: title_s:photo book would match "photo" for field 'title_s' and "book" for the default field. ryan
