This all makes sense. You are sending a blank string for a field that expects a date (or null - no element at all - if you want it to default to NOW). So, yes, you need to either pass a valid date or don't pass that element in at all.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Wesley Small <wesley.sm...@mtvstaff.com> > To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:57:22 PM > Subject: Solr - clarification on date & sortable fields > > I am sending this question out on behalf a college. Which needs a > clarification on solr indexing on date and sortable fields. > > We have declared a field date in schema.xml like below > > > multiValued="false" default="NOW"/> > > While indexing if I don't pass any value to this field like > or , I am getting the > below error > > SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Invalid Date String:'' > > at org.apache.solr.schema.DateField.parseMath(DateField.java:167) > > at org.apache.solr.schema.DateField.toInternal(DateField.java:138) > > at org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType.createField(FieldType.java:179) > > at > > org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField.createField(SchemaField.java:93) > > at > > org.apache.solr.update.DocumentBuilder.toDocument(DocumentBuilder.java:243) > > at > > org.apache.solr.update.processor.RunUpdateProcessor.processAdd(RunUpdateProces > > sorFactory.java:58) > > > > Instead if I remove the tag from the request, it is not giving any issues. > The same behavious exist for sortable fields as well like sint, slong. Is > there any work around we can make in schema file? > > Or the request needs to be changed accordingly? > > A quick work around for this is declaring the fields as string. But the > limitation would be we can not perform any range search queries on these > fields.. > > Interestingly,f we replace with all zeros in the date (I.e. > 0000-00-00T00:00:00Z, > It gets indexed and the value in index is created as 0002-11-30T00:00:00. > > > Thanks.
