This is a bug. Thank you for reporting it. I opened this ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4361
Until there is a fix, here are two workarounds: 1. If you do not need any 4.1 DIH functionality, use the 4.0 DIH jar with your 4.1 Solr. -or- 2. Use request parameters without dots: ex. "solrBceDSDriver" instead of "solr.bceDS.driver". James Dyer E-Commerce Systems Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 -----Original Message----- From: Boris Granveaud [mailto:bo...@granveaud.com] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 3:38 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Error in DIH after upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1 Hello, I've just tried to upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1 and I have the following exception when reindexing my data: Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException at java.util.Collections$UnmodifiableMap.put(Collections.java:1283) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.VariableResolver.currentLevelMap(VariableResolver.java:204) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.VariableResolver.resolve(VariableResolver.java:94) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.VariableResolver.replaceTokens(VariableResolver.java:144) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.ContextImpl.replaceTokens(ContextImpl.java:254) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.resolveVariables(JdbcDataSource.java:203) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.createConnectionFactory(JdbcDataSource.java:101) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.init(JdbcDataSource.java:62) at org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.getDataSourceInstance(DataImporter.java:394) It seems to be related to the use of placeholders in data-config.xml: <dataConfig> <dataSource type="JdbcDataSource" name="bceDS" driver="${dataimporter.request.solr.bceDS.driver}" url="${dataimporter.request.solr.bceDS.url}" user="${dataimporter.request.solr.bceDS.user}" password="${dataimporter.request.solr.bceDS.password}" batchSize="-1"/> solrconfig.xml: <requestHandler name="/dataimport" class="org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandler"> <lst name="defaults"> <str name="config">data-config.xml</str> <!-- dataSource parameters for data-config.xml --> <str name="solr.bceDS.driver">...</str> <str name="solr.bceDS.url">...</str> <str name="solr.bceDS.user">...</str> <str name="solr.bceDS.password">...</str> </lst> </requestHandler> Did I miss something or is it a bug? Thanks, Boris.