Short summary: * Using both highlighting and shards and q.alt is giving me a null pointer exception.
* Really easy to workaround; but since the similar cases without shards work, perhaps this should too. * If you think it should be fixed, point me in the right direction and I can code up a patch. With a few days ago Solr trunk, I'm seeing a NullPointerException [full backtrace below] in HighlightComponent when I use shards & the highlighter & q.alt. I think this more minimal example shows the exception. Using the example install from "ant example" with the example data loaded, this request: http://localhost:8983/solr/select?q.alt=*:*&hl=on&defType=edismax&shards=localhost:8983/solr is giving me a null pointer exception in HighlightComponent.finishStage(HighlightComponent.java:158) If I don't try to specify shards like this: http://localhost:8983/solr/select?q.alt=*:*&hl=on&defType=edismax it works fine. Also, if I still use shards, but add a harmless q parameter like this: http://localhost:8983/solr/select?q.alt=*:*&hl=on&defType=edismax&shards=localhost:8983/solr&q=*:* it works fine too. Ron [1] java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.solr.handler.component.HighlightComponent.finishStage(HighlightComponent.java:158) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:307) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:131) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1323) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:337) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:240) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1157) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:388) at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:418) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:923) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:547) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404) at org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:228) at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)