Hi, the JavaDoc of SolrInputDocument.addField [1] states: Add a field with implied null value for boost. The class type of value and the name parameter should match schema.xml. schema.xml can be found in conf directory under the solr home by default.
This sounds as if the value would need to be an instance of TextField, TrieDateField and so on, which doesn't seem to make much sense. Looking into the code it looks like the value is being interpreted in org.apache.solr.client.solrj.util.ClientUtils.writeVal(..). This method converts the passed in object into a string mainly by using the object's toString() method. There is just special handling for Dates, byte arrays and ByteBuffers. So this doesn't really seem to take a FieldType object. All samples are also passing in simple String objects or other basic objects like a Long. So what is expected here seems to be a string representation that can be parsed by the analyzer of the FieldType as defined in the schema.xml. Is that correct? Is there a page that shows the supported formats for every standard type? Beside that the first sentence is also a bit confusing as null can not be passed into the other addField method and the version without the boost value does actually invoke the one with a boost value set to 1. regards, Hendrik [1] http://lucene.apache.org/solr/5_3_0/solr-solrj/org/apache/solr/common/SolrInputDocument.html#addField%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Object%29
