For real-time get, child doc transformer would need Real-time searcher and I think this issue has been resolved in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-12722
Basically, needsSolrIndexSearcher should be set to true public boolean needsSolrIndexSearcher() { return true; } Regards, Munendra S N On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 4:01 AM Mandava, Rahul <manda...@upmc.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > > I am using SOLR 6.6.0 and real-time get to retrieve documents. Randomly I > am seeing nullpointer exceptions in solr log files which in turn breaks the > application workflow. Below is the stack trace > > I am thinking this could be related to real-time get, when transforming > child documents during get, may be child elements are not available due to > any pending / uncommitted transactions to SOLR index. The same retrieval > works fine after some time, which makes me think that this could be related > to committing the changes to index or may be a transaction issue. But > couldn't figure out exactly where the bottle neck is. Has anyone faced > similar issue or familiar with the exception ?? > > The same exception is being logged by two different loggers HttpSolrCall > and RequestHandlerBase in solr log file at the same time stamp. > > > > null:java.lang.NullPointerException at > org.apache.solr.response.transform.ChildDocTransformer.transform(ChildDocTransformerFactory.java:136) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.component.RealTimeGetComponent.process(RealTimeGetComponent.java:253) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:296) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:173) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:2477) at > org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.execute(HttpSolrCall.java:723) at > org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.call(HttpSolrCall.java:529) at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:361) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:305) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1691) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:582) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:226) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1180) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:512) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1112) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:213) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:119) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:134) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:335) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:134) > at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:534) at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:320) at > org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:251) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:273) > at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:95) at > org.eclipse.jetty.io.SelectChannelEndPoint$2.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:93) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.executeProduceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:303) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.produceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:148) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.run(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:136) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:671) > at > org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:589) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) > > NOTE: I added additional parameter of softCommit=true when I save / update > documents to index, after this change the frequency and volume of these > errors has decreased, but still seeing very few (1-2) errors, but still > seeing the same exception in Solr log files. I am thinking that seeing > error in log files doesn't hurt as long as the updates and get's work fine, > but still would like to know how to eradicate these errors from happening. > > > Thanks > Rahul Mandava > >