A similar problem seems to happen when sending application/json to the search handler. Solr returns a NullPointerException for some reason:
vagrant@precise64:~/solr-5.1.0$ curl " http://localhost:8983/solr/gettingstarted/select?wt=json&indent=true&q=foundation"; -H "Content-type:application/json" { "responseHeader":{ "status":500, "QTime":2, "params":{ "indent":"true", "json":"", "q":"foundation", "wt":"json"}}, "error":{ "trace":"java.lang.NullPointerException\n\tat org.apache.solr.request.json.ObjectUtil$ConflictHandler.mergeMap(ObjectUtil.java:60)\n\tat org.apache.solr.request.json.ObjectUtil.mergeObjects(ObjectUtil.java:114)\n\tat org.apache.solr.request.json.RequestUtil.mergeJSON(RequestUtil.java:259)\n\tat org.apache.solr.request.json.RequestUtil.processParams(RequestUtil.java:176)\n\tat org.apache.solr.util.SolrPluginUtils.setDefaults(SolrPluginUtils.java:166)\n\tat org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:140)\n\tat org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1984)\n\tat org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:829)\n\tat org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:446)\n\tat org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:220)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1419)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:455)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:137)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:557)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1075)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:384)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1009)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:255)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:154)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:368)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:489)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handleRequest(BlockingHttpConnection.java:53)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:942)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:1004)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:640)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:235)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handle(BlockingHttpConnection.java:72)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.bio.SocketConnector$ConnectorEndPoint.run(SocketConnector.java:264)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:608)\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:543)\n\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)\n", "code":500}} On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > text/xml is not a safe content-type, because of the way that HTTP handles > charsets. Always use application/xml. > > wunder > Walter Underwood > wun...@wunderwood.org > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > > > On Apr 22, 2015, at 3:01 AM, bengates <benga...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: > > > Looks like Solarium hardcodes a default header "Content-Type: text/xml; > > charset=utf-8" if none provided. > > Removing it solves the problem. > > > > It seems that Solr 5.1 doesn't support this content-type. > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Bad-contentType-for-search-handler-text-xml-charset-UTF-8-tp4200314p4201579.html > > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
