Hi, I used SolrJ 7.2.1 and Apache Solr 7.2.1 in one of my projects. Prior to data indexing, I create the fields and field types using SchemaAPI in SolrJ. If a same field name is repeated, solr did not return an exception, but simply ignored it (or over-rid it). But I tried Solr 7.6.0 with my project and it returned exceptions. I went over the Solr logs and found the below error. It seems that I cannot create a field again and again. I would like to know whether I should do something different to overcome this problem.
2019-01-19 16:46:43.580 ERROR (qtp952486988-18) [ x:biotestmine-search] o.a.s.h.RequestHandlerBase org.apache.solr.api.ApiBag$ExceptionWithErrObject: error processing commands, errors: [{add-field={indexed=true, stored=false, name=Category, type=analyzed_string, multiValued=true, required=false}, errorMessages=[Field 'Category' already exists. ]}], at org.apache.solr.handler.SchemaHandler.handleRequestBody(SchemaHandler.java:92) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:199) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:2541) at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.execute(HttpSolrCall.java:709) at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.call(HttpSolrCall.java:515) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:377) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:323) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1634) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:533) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:146) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:257) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1595) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:255) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1317) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:203) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:473) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1564) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:201) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1219) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:144) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:219) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:126) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:335) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:531) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:352) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:260) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:281) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:102) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:118) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:333) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:310) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:168) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:126) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:366) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:762) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:680) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Thanks in advance Regards, Arunan *Sugunakumar Arunan* Undergraduate - CSE | UOM Email : aruna <aru...@wso2.com>ns...@cse.mrt.ac.lk Mobile : 0094 766016272 <076%20601%206272> LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunans23/