Sorry, forgot to include the url and the error message: private static String url = "http://localhost:8080/solr/update";;
The error I am getting on the server is: SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Unexpected character '{' (code 123) in prolog; expected '<' at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1] at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.load(XMLLoader.java:81) at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:58) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1376) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:365) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:260) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.solr.servlets.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:78) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:169) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:928) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:987) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:539) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:298) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Unexpected character '{' (code 123) in prolog; expected '<' at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1] at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwUnexpectedChar(StreamScanner.java:648) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextFromProlog(BasicStreamReader.java:2047) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1069) at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.processUpdate(XMLLoader.java:104) at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.load(XMLLoader.java:79) ... 24 more May 21, 2012 12:32:13 AM org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore execute INFO: [] webapp=/solr path=/update params={} status=400 QTime=1 On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alak...@gmail.com > wrote: > I am trying to post some json objects to solr over http. Here's my code: > > public void index(ProductData product) { > > HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); > HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url); > httppost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json"); > httppost.getParams().setParameter("commit", "true"); > > try { > StringEntity entity; > entity = new StringEntity(product.toString()); > httppost.setEntity(entity); > HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost); > System.out.println(product.toString()); > System.out.println(response.toString()); > } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } catch (ParseException e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } catch (IOException e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } > } > > > I am getting error 400 bad request. The output showing JSON string (edited > a bit), and the response: > > { "timeStamp" : 1337560074593 , "title1" : "Sony Handycam HDR-XR260V 160 > GB Camcorder" , "price" : 116.5 , "condition" : "New" , "brand" : "Sony" , > "model" : "HDR-XR260V" , "mpn" : "HDR-XR260V"} > HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request [Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1, Content-Type: > text/html;charset=utf-8, Content-Length: 1271, Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 > 00:27:56 GMT, Connection: close] > > > Is there something I am missing or doing wrong ?? > > Thank you. > >