Hi Shawn and Chris, your inputs Helped I figured it out from all these links and also what Chris mentioned.
Thanks, Summer On Jan 27, 2014, at 5:54 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 1/27/2014 5:41 PM, Summer Shire wrote: >> Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: <mypackage>.PayloadSimilarity >> cannot be cast to org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.Similarity >> at >> org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema$1.getSimilarity(IndexSchema.java:929) >> at >> org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema.getSimilarity(IndexSchema.java:257) >> at >> org.apache.solr.update.SolrIndexConfig.toIndexWriterConfig(SolrIndexConfig.java:219) >> at >> org.apache.solr.update.SolrIndexWriter.<init>(SolrIndexWriter.java:77) >> at >> org.apache.solr.update.SolrIndexWriter.create(SolrIndexWriter.java:64) >> at >> org.apache.solr.update.DefaultSolrCoreState.createMainIndexWriter(DefaultSolrCoreState.java:267) >> at >> org.apache.solr.update.DefaultSolrCoreState.getIndexWriter(DefaultSolrCoreState.java:110) >> at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.openNewSearcher(SolrCore.java:1440) > > I think there must be incorrect versions of jars in unexpected places, or > you're not compiling against the same version of Solr jars as the version > you're running, or perhaps theSolr install you've got has old versions of > jars hanging around, either from an old extracted .war file or elsewhere on > the classpath. > > Here's an old thread: > > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Casting-Exception-with-Similarity-td475849.html > > Thanks, > Shawn >