[SOLR-2763] Extracting update request handler throws exception and returns 400 when zero-length file posted using multipart form post

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.5, 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: update
• Assignee: Jan Høydahl
• Reporter: Karl Wright
• Created: 14/Sep/11 12:11
• Updated: 27/Nov/11 12:36
• Resolved: 20/Sep/11 13:52

Description

When zero-length documents are posted to the extracting update request handler, and the method used for posting is multipart form encoding, then you get a 400 error returned and the following exception to stderr:

Sep 14, 2011 3:45:45 AM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log
SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: missing content stream
at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:50)
at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129)
at org.apache.solr.core.RequestHandlers$LazyRequestHandlerWrapper.handleRequest(RequestHandlers.java:238)
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1360)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:356)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:252)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:399)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:945)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:756)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404)
at org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:228)
at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)

Sep 14, 2011 3:45:45 AM org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore execute
INFO: [] webapp=/solr path=/update/extract params=

{id=123}

status=400 QTime=300

Other ways of indexing zero-length data do not produce this error.

A curl command that will reproduce the problem easily is as follows:

curl -location -F "id=123" -F "file=@hello.txt" http://localhost:8983/solr/update/extract

... assuming hello.txt is a zero-length file.

This ticket is related to CONNECTORS-254.

Issue Links

• blocks: CONNECTORS-254 Bad request when posting 0 byte file to Solr