Greetings, Is there a way to configure more graceful handling of field formatting exceptions when indexing documents?
Currently, there is a field being generated in some documents that I am indexing that is supposed to be a float but some times slips through as an empty string. (I know, fix the docs, but sometimes bad values slip through, and it would be nice to handle them in a more forgiving manner). Here's an example of the exception - when this happens, the entire doc is thrown out due to the one malformed field: ---snip--- ERROR org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore - org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: ERROR: [doc=docidstr] Error adding field 'f_floatfield'='' ... Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: empty String 00:56:46,288 [SI] WARN com.company.IndexerThread - BAD DOC: a82a2f6a6a42ad3c98a05ddb3f2c382c 01:02:12,713 [SI] ERROR org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore - org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: ERROR: [doc=6ff90020f9ec0f6dd623e9879c3e024d] Error adding field 'f_afloatfield'='' at org.apache.solr.update.DocumentBuilder.toDocument(DocumentBuilder.java:333) at org.apache.solr.update.processor.RunUpdateProcessor.processAdd(RunUpdateProcessorFactory.java:60) at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.processUpdate(XMLLoader.java:157) at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.load(XMLLoader.java:79) 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.client.solrj.embedded.EmbeddedSolrServer.request(EmbeddedSolrServer.java:142) at org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.AbstractUpdateRequest.process(AbstractUpdateRequest.java:105) at org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServer.add(SolrServer.java:121) at org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServer.add(SolrServer.java:106) at com.company.IndexerThread.run(IndexerThread.java:55) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: empty String at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:1011) at java.lang.Float.parseFloat(Float.java:452) at org.apache.solr.schema.TrieField.createField(TrieField.java:410) at org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField.createField(SchemaField.java:103) at org.apache.solr.update.DocumentBuilder.addField(DocumentBuilder.java:203) at org.apache.solr.update.DocumentBuilder.toDocument(DocumentBuilder.java:286) ... 12 more 01:02:12,713 [SI] WARN com.company.IndexerThread - BAD DOC: 6ff90020f9ec0f6dd623e9879c3e024d ---snip--- In my thinking (and for this situation), it would be much better to just ignore the malformed field and keep the doc - is there any way to configure this or enable this behavior instead? Thanks, Aaron