[SOLR-13187] NullPointerException at o.a.solr.search.QParser.getParser

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 9.0
• Fix Version/s: 8.2
• Labels: diffblue newdev

Environment

Steps to reproduce

• Use a Linux machine.
• Build commit ea2c8ba of Solr as described in the section below.
• Build the films collection as described below.
• Start the server using the command ./bin/solr start -f -p 8983 -s /tmp/home
• Request the URL given in the bug description.

Compiling the server

git clone https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr
cd lucene-solr
git checkout ea2c8ba
ant compile
cd solr
ant server

Building the collection

We followed Exercise 2 from the Solr Tutorial. The attached file (home.zip) gives the contents of folder /tmp/home that you will obtain by following the steps below:

mkdir -p /tmp/home
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><solr></solr>' > /tmp/home/solr.xml

In one terminal start a Solr instance in foreground:

./bin/solr start -f -p 8983 -s /tmp/home

In another terminal, create a collection of movies, with no shards and no replication, and initialize it:

bin/solr create -c films
curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{"add-field": {"name":"name", "type":"text_general", "multiValued":false, "stored":true}}' http://localhost:8983/solr/films/schema
curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{"add-copy-field" : {"source":"*","dest":"_text_"}}' http://localhost:8983/solr/films/schema
./bin/post -c films example/films/films.json

• Assignee: Munendra S N
• Reporter: Cesar Rodriguez
• Created: 29/Jan/19 17:47
• Updated: 26/Jul/19 08:56
• Resolved: 24/Jun/19 19:09

Description

Requesting the following URL causes Solr to return an HTTP 500 error response:

http://localhost:8983/solr/films/select?fq={!a}

The error response seems to be caused by the following uncaught exception:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.solr.search.QParser.getParser(QParser.java:367)
	at org.apache.solr.search.QParser.getParser(QParser.java:319)
	at org.apache.solr.search.QParser.getParser(QParser.java:309)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.prepare(QueryComponent.java:203)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:272)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:199)
	at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:2559)
	at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.execute(HttpSolrCall.java:711)
	at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.call(HttpSolrCall.java:516)
	at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:394)
	at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:340)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1602)
[...]

The call to getQueryPlugin from org.apache.solr.search.QParser.getParser(), at line 366, can return a null pointer, as witnessed by the URL above. Method getParser should probably check for this.

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Issue Links

• duplicates: SOLR-8558 Referencing an invalid query parser results in cryptic NPE
• is duplicated by: SOLR-13198 NullPointerException in org.apache.solr.search.QParser.getParser
• is related to: SOLR-11883 NPE on missing nested query in QueryValueSource
• is related to: SOLR-13197 NullPointerException in org/apache/solr/handler/component/StatsField.java[251]