Hi, This config works for me :
<updateRequestProcessorChain name="remove"> <processor class="solr.TrimFieldUpdateProcessorFactory" /> <processor class="solr.RemoveBlankFieldUpdateProcessorFactory" /> <processor class="solr.RunUpdateProcessorFactory" /> </updateRequestProcessorChain> <requestHandler name="/update" class="solr.UpdateRequestHandler"> <lst name="defaults"> <str name="update.chain">remove</str> </lst> </requestHandler> Ahmet On Monday, March 17, 2014 5:11 PM, "EXTERNAL Taminidi Ravi (ETI, Automotive-Service-Solutions)" <external.ravi.tamin...@us.bosch.com> wrote: Hi greg, I added the below processor (RemoveBlankFieldUpdateProcessorFactory) I am still getting same problem. My XML looks like <filed="Price"></field> E.g Pri -----Original Message----- From: Greg Walters [mailto:greg.walt...@answers.com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 9:32 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Empty string in tfloat type field Ravi, You must not have gotten Ahmet Arslan's reply the last time you posted this question three days ago. Allow me to quote: ** Hi Ravi, How about RemoveBlankFieldUpdateProcessorFactory ? https://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_0_0/solr-core/org/apache/solr/update/processor/ Ahmet ** Thanks, Greg On Mar 14, 2014, at 8:26 AM, "EXTERNAL Taminidi Ravi (ETI, Automotive-Service-Solutions)" <external.ravi.tamin...@us.bosch.com> wrote: > HI, I have a Price field with tfloat type. I am using XML to Post the Data. > For few documents the Price in the XML is empty. I am getting any error where > empty is treated as string and throws exception. > > Any suggestions to fix this..? > > Thanks > > Ravi